Basics of Puritan Faith

Preamble

The Puritan faith is a pure covenentalist faith that holds that the God of Israel and the covenant of the old testament is fulfilled in the new testament in the birth, crucifixion, and resurrection of the promised Messiah, Jesus, who is the Christ. The Puritan faith teaches that salvation can only come from the grace that God bestows upon those who truly repent of their sins, acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and savior, and who seek a personal relationship with Jesus who gives us the power of the Holy Spirit to continually refine us until the day of judgement. The Puritan faith is understanding the Judaism component of our faith and practicing of that faith is innate to our Christian walk, notwithstanding that the Law of the Prophets are fulfilled to the extent that animal sacrifice, grain offerings, and punishments proscribed by the law of ordinances given to Moses and Aaron at Mt. Sinai are no longer our punishment for violations of the Law. That in Jesus, by grace alone, that we have eternal salvation sharing in the residence of the new heaven and the new earth after tribulation, rapture, and judgement of humankind.

What is a Puritan?

A Puritan is a Christian who has repented of their sins, who has accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, confessed Jesus as Lord, and engages scripture with the purpose of achieving the purist of faith. A Puritan is not necessarily the separatist of the Anglican faith who came to settle America in hopes of establishing the freedom of worship, albeit similar in desire to serve and worship God in the purest of forms and in expression.

A Puritan need not abdicate their attendance in the church they currently attend and/or are a member of. The goal of this reformed and modern Puritanism is to reproof the apostacy of churches who teach a false doctrine, to prepare the body of Christ as a purified church body, acceptable and pleasing to God as a bride for the bridegroom for the eternity of heaven.

A Puritan does not take an oath, either in secret or public, engage in ceremonies of darkness or acknowledge a powerless and impudent “all religions” deity. A Puritan cannot be a freemason and a freemason cannot be a Puritan. A Puritan publicly professes Jesus as his Lord and Savior, should be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, read scripture on a daily or weekly basis, seek to purify their faith with meditation, prayer, and fasting, and engage political discourse and activity to impact public affairs, policy, and laws for God.

What is Reformed Puritanism?

Reformed Puritanism is evaluating scripture in its totality, in context of its historical application, with the goal of refining the faith into the Church in its purest form. This refining of the faith requires the fire of the truth of the Word of God, to separate the silver from the impurities that have been like leaven through the course of history, to the true faith in Christ Jesus. Prior reformations including Calvin and Luther, took into consideration the root of the Church and the dogma and politics thereof, to cultivate a more purer form of faith. However, the greatest tragedy of all mankind has failed to be addressed, that the Messiah promised the Israelites has morphed into a separate and unassociated faith of the old testament covenant of the Israelites. However, this is not a movement of Judaism, as Judaism denies the salvation of Jesus Christ, and foregoes the knowledge that the Jewish faithful of Israel did fulfill scriptures in the ordering and crucifixion of the Messiah and prior apostacies that allowed them to be enslaved in Egypt and exiled in to Babylon.

Reformed Puritanism is not an extension of Seventh Day Adventists or any new age movement. Quite the contrary, the Puritan Church, USA, has the goal to reinstitute the Puritan faith that led to the migration from Europe to America, with the desire to refine those doctrines that were not Biblically sound, alter the legalism that tarnished its mission and message, and to mostly profess the true faith to the churches who have spiritual errors, much like the twelve Churches addressed in Revelation to John.

What does Modern Puritanism look like?

Modern Puritanism should resemble the Church between the resurrection of Jesus and prior to the First Council of Nicaea: Thereabouts, when Constantine the Great established the church of the state of the Roman empire, the Catholic Church. Such controversies in the faith today arise from the political affairs of the time and motivations of a ruler who may have converted to Christianity, however was motivated to ensure peace in his empire and was most certainly pagan for the majority of his life. This finalized the impure faith from a true Jewish acceptance of the promised Messiah to a secular, gentile faith in contradiction of the scriptures. Prior reformers such as Calvin and Luther, were inherently flawed due to their premise that this branch of the faith was the correct one. Modern theologians, both diabolically and diametrically in opposition, in defense of this faith, will falsely promote that Jewish Christians gave rise to the Muslim or Islamic faith. Being a Christian literally requires the faith that Jesus died for the sins of all mankind, and that His resurrection and acceptance as Him as our Savior leads to eternal salvation.

So, what exactly does the modern Puritan reformant adhere to:

The Sabbath defines the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob from all the false gods and misleading faiths. Prior to any covenant with humanity, Genesis 2:3 states, “And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done.” When Christians study Paul, they often state that we are no longer bound by the Law and usually quote Exodus 20:8 as the only one of the 10 commandments that no longer has to be followed! However, the day is made holy at the creation itself and was given to all humankind as a holy day. Just because God chose to make it a command to the Israelites and Jesus’ refutation of the regulations of it imposed by the Pharisees and the Sadducees, does not make Mark 2:27, “And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath” abrogate the holiness conferred by God of the seventh day!

The modern or reformed Puritan today observes the Sabbath as a day of rest, fasting, scripture reading, and engaging in holy duties such a meditation, meeting of the congregation, singing hymns of praise and worship, healing, casting out demons, laying of hands and other things holy! IT is a definite time to spend with family, feasting and eating together (if not in fasting), and peaceful rest and reverence to God!

There are three ways in which to calculate the actual day of the Sabbath. The first is the scriptural way and the purist method, which is to start an annual calendar on the night of the the new moon immediately after Rosh Hashanah, or the Jewish New Year. Because all of creation is said to start from this creation point in time, the night of the new moon after Rosh Hashanah is considered the first day (because of Genesis 1 states, “then evening and morning, the first day” and creation starts out of darkness the next day begins at sundown). Because the moon cycles every 29.5 days, each successive new moon does not constitute the calculation of the Sabbath but every seven days from the new moon after Rosh Hashanah. In this preferred method of following the Sabbath, the day that you observe the Sabbath will be the same day throughout the year but will change every year. Meaning, this year the Sabbath will be on Thursdays but the next year it may be Fridays and so on. Prior to 362CE, 71 members of the sanhedrin would wait to see the new moon, and is why Rosh Hashanah is a two day celebration, and then signal to other tribes the beginning of the lunar calendar.

A second way to determine the Sabbath is to follow the Jewish calendar in concert with the Julian calendar presently used and observe sunset on Friday night until sunset on Saturday night as the Sabbath. What this does is take into consideration the country you live in and the markets of commerce, as well as a fixed 7-day structure that would be less confusing than that of the 7-day calculation from the new moon.

The third and final way is to incorporate both the current Lord’s day with the Jewish Sabbath, resting and giving reverence to God on Saturdays and then going to church on Sunday. The main issue is to give the day, the Sabbath day that God made holy to him, by refraining from commerce and work. When Jesus rebuked the Pharisees who questioned Jesus’ disciples from harvesting food on the Sabbath to eat that day or the healing on the Sabbath, the rebuke involved rules, customs, ordinances, and other restrictions instituted among men. Suffice it to say, God made the day holy by resting and abstaining from work, mostly in the form of commerce. When God commanded the Israelites to march around the walls of Jericho for seven days, one of those days had to be the Sabbath, obviously. But, they were engaged in a form of worship by carrying the ark of the covenant and blowing the horns.

The modern or reformed Puritan today adheres only to the doctrine of salvation and accepts the mystery and power of God that cannot be explained to not divide the Church and allow the Enemy a foothold to divide the Church. The doctrine of grace says that I am saved by grace of the sacrifice of Jesus at Golgotha, and in his resurrection that I have eternal salvation! No other works or anything I can do brings forth the salvation of Jesus Christ. I actively participate in this plan of salvation by repenting of my sins, asking God for forgiveness of those sins, and accepting and professing Jesus as my Lord and Savior. It is by the power of the Holy Spirit that I come to this repentance and in this way it is a form of election that I have to accept.

Our understanding of the trinity, whether exists in one or three, is not a foundation of our salvation. The mystery of creation, His time incomprehensible to humankind, is not a foundation of our salvation. And in scripture, the Bible, is the infallible word of God as recorded and transcribed by man, that all within it are the true account of God’s creation, history, and plan of our faith from the beginning of the world until the second coming in the final judgement of man.