If your denomination didn't exist in AD 30, why does it shape how you read Scripture?

Yeshua (Jesus) didn't start it.

The Sh'lichim (Apostles) didn't start it.

The Sabbath-keeping Jerusalem ekklesia didn't start it.

Always a man who started it. Centuries later.

"Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." (Matthew 15:13)

The Ekklesia Timeline shows you which plants.

If you are Catholic, your tradition starts at AD 313 with Constantine, who moved Sabbath to Sunday by imperial edict and replaced Pesach (Passover) with Easter on a pagan equinox calculation.

If you are Lutheran, your tradition starts at AD 1517 with a man who broke from Rome and called for the burning of synagogues at the end of his life.

If you are Calvinist, your tradition starts at AD 1536 with a man who burned Servetus at the stake in Geneva and systematized Augustine into the doctrine that God elects some to damnation before creation.

If you are Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, non-denominational, your tradition starts in 1609, 1729, 1906, or somewhere in the 1970s. After AD 30. Long, long, long after.

Yeshua did not start any of them.

So look at the timeline. Find your denomination on the right side. Read what it hung on to. Then look at the left side and ask: if Yeshua walked into my service this Sunday, would He recognize what we are doing?

If the answer is no, the next question is what you do about it.

I am not asking you to leave your church tomorrow. I am asking you to come to the Scripture without your denomination as the lens.