Yahuwah greatly blessed the Methodists with deep spiritual truths regarding salvation by giving them an understanding of how to arrive at truth through a careful, comparative study of the Scriptures. Many more outside the Methodist Church have also been blessed with the light Yahuwah gave the Methodists on how to study the Bible to gain truth. Nevertheless, the Methodists have inherited some beliefs that are founded upon tradition rather than Scripture. Following is a list of some of the errors still held by these sincere students of Scripture.
- Methodists are foremost among Protestants in the ecumenical movement to unify Christianity. They often say: “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.” Sadly, as time passes and the move to unify grows, Methodists decide more and more doctrines fall under the “non-essential” category. Scripture does not present a unified Christian Church before Yahushua returns. Rather, the Bible repeatedly warns of an unholy unification of error: “For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.” (Acts 20:29-30) “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (Matthew 7:15) Thus, Heaven’s call is to flee all organized religions.
- Methodists believe in the doctrine of a Trinity. The idea of a three-in-one godhead comes from paganism. It cannot be found in Scripture, which states: “Hear O Israel, Yahuwah our Eloah is one!” (Deuteronomy 6:4) In the Methodist Articles of Religion, Article 1 states: “There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body or parts . . . .” Making the eternal Father into an unexplainable mystery is also contrary to Scripture, for when Moses asked Yahuwah if he could see Him, the response was: “Thou canst not see My face: for there shall no man see Me, and live. [But] thou shalt see My back parts: but My face shall not be seen.” (See Exodus 33:18-23.) The Bible makes plain that Yahushua, while born of a virgin, is a human being - not a diety.
- Most Methodists believe in consciousness after death. Such a belief is based on the assumption that everyone has an immortal soul. However, Scripture teaches Yahuwah “is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see.” (1 Timothy 6:15-16)
- Scripture teaches that ultimate annihilation, death, awaits all who persist in rebellion against Heaven. Methodists, however, teach the lost will spend eternity in hell. This contradicts Scripture, making eternal life in torment the reward of the wicked, rather than death as taught by Scripture: “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of Yahuwah is eternal life in Yahushua the Anointed our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)
- Methodists teach that the redeemed will inherit Heaven. Scripture, however, teaches the immortality in the earth made new is the reward of the saints.
- Methodists worship on Sunday. They classify the fourth commandment as part of the “ceremonies and rites [that] doth not bind Christians” even though they admit “no Christian whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral.” (Article VI, Articles of Religion) Dividing Yahuwah’s law and deciding what part applies and what part does not, dishonors the Creator who states, “I am Yahuwah, I change not.” (Malachi 3:6) The divine law calls for worship on the seventh-day Sabbath [lunar Sabbath] as well as the annual holy days, both of which Yahuwah calls “holy convocations” which “shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.” (Leviticus 23:14)
