Christian Identity.

By Pastor Eli James And the Shepherds of Zadok

As the Christian Identity Movement grows in numbers and in stature and in recognition, it has become apparent that we need to have a basic statement of principles by which we both identify ourselves and by which the non-Identity world can understand us. This document is, therefore, a statement of the basic principles of Christian Identity.

It is not a complete statement of principles, but it contains 20 of the most salient points of Faith. In this year of our Lord, 2007, the Christian Identity Movement boasts of hundreds of congregations worldwide, with new ones forming on a nearly daily basis. It is a reflection of the fact that the White Race is remembering its heritage as the Israelites of the Bible.

Christian Identity is also known as Kingdom Identity, the Jacob-Israel Movement, Christian Israel, Israel Identity, Covenant Identity, Covenant Israel, British Israel, American Israel, Anglo-Saxon Israel, Anglo Israel, etc.

The essence of all of these variations in name is that the Caucasian people are identified with the Israel of the Bible, and no other people can claim to be Israel, and that includes the Jewish people, who cannot demonstrate their literal descent from either the House of Israel or the House of Judah.

Caveat: The following list is neither complete nor compulsory. Some CI groups will adhere to most of the following principles; and some groups or ministers may even dispute some of those listed. There are some groups that even reject the term, Christian Identity, but still adhere to the majority of the principles listed.

Christian Identity is still evolving as the Restoration of True Israel in the Latter Days, but the idea that the Caucasians are the True Israel of Scripture is the paramount doctrine which is shared by all Identists.

Theological Principles of Christian Identity

1.) CI is an exclusively Bible-based theology/religion. It contains no dogma (meaning doctrine that is neither contained in nor derivable from the Scriptures). It is based solely on the written Scriptures. Although there is much debate within the Identity Movement as to the meanings of the translations available to us (which is true of Christianity as a whole), it is generally agreed that the Bible, as written in the original Hebrew and Greek, is the inspired word of God. But the translations into modern languages have been a source of much confusion and much error. For the same reason, CI totally rejects the Jewish Talmud, which is based on the supposed “Oral Tradition” of the rabbis of Judaism, which has no basis whatsoever in the Written Word. Contrary to the Torah, the Talmud is based on non-Scriptural traditions of the rabbis.

2.) CI has no organized central structure like most denominations, although there is much communication between particular congregations and between and among CI teachers around the world. Our Faith rests in the Bible, not on an established hierarchy of officers.

3.) CI believes that the Feast Days of the Old Testament are a mandatory requirement for all CI members, but the blood sacrifice aspect is not mandatory, since the sacrificial rituals were abolished at the Cross. The Feast Days are to be kept as a memorial to Yahweh.

4.) CI believes that Judaism is an impostor religion which claims to be based on the Old Testament but is, in fact, based on the Talmud (what Jesus called the “tradition of the elders”), which is a collection of commentaries by rabbis, and that the vast majority of these commentaries are either irrelevant to Scripture or deny the Scriptures.

5.) CI believes that much of modern Judeo-Christianity is the Great Apostasy, the “falling away,” as prophesied in Scripture, because Judeo-Christianity has invented numerous dogmatic principles, such as the Rapture and Dispensationalism, which are not to be found in Scripture.

6.) CI believes that it is the revival/restoration of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Covenant People of the Bible, and that the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Caucasian and Germanic peoples of the world are the True and Only descendants of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. This belief is based upon historical records, not upon dogma.

7.) CI understands the Jewish people to be of non-Semitic descent and of two non-Israelite lineages: 1.) Sephardic Jews of Canaanite/Edomite descent and 2.) Ashkenazi Jews of mixed Japhethite/Mongol/Hittite descent. As a result of this non-Shemitic descent, the Jewish claim to Palestine is regarded within CI as both fraudulent and erroneous. Since the Jewish people are neither Shemites, Hebrews nor Israelites, they have no right, since they are NOT the true descendants of the biblical Shemites, to be in Palestine and should give Palestine back to its rightful owners, the Palestinian people. Judaism has a historical record of claiming that the terms ‘Israel’ and ‘Jewry’ are equivalent or identical. CI teaches that this claim is both historically false and theologically untenable.

8.) CI regards Zionism as a fraudulent theology for the same reasons as given in Item 7.

9.) CI believes that the Bible is the “Book of the generations of Adam” (Genesis 5:1), namely the Book of the White Race exclusively and that the language of the Bible clearly forbids race-mixing. This does not mean that non-Whites cannot choose to become Christians and practice their own version of Christianity. What it means to Caucasians is that we have the Scriptural obligation to practice our Faith as the Bible demands that we should, exclusively as a Family and as a Race. We believe that all Races will benefit when the White Race is free to practice its Faith as the Bible demands.

10.)CI believes in the Covenants between Yahweh God and His People, Israel, and that the Bible cannot be understood without reference to the Covenants. Except for the Rainbow Covenant, all of Covenants of the Bible were made exclusively to the Seed (direct descendants) of Abraham and Sarah and reaffirmed through the Seed of Israel.

11.)CI teaches that the Flood of Noah was local, not global, and that all of the pre-existing nations and peoples survived the Flood. Thus, Christian Identity sees no contradiction between the Bible and natural history.

12.)CI denies the possibility that all races evolved from either Adam and Eve or from Noah and his family. These ideas are both unscientific and anti-Scriptural.

13.)CI is not a cult. A cult is defined by dogmatism, idol-worship or personality worship. Typically, cult leaders demand that their followers abandon all other forms of worship. CI, on the contrary, is focused on Scripture. Those pastors who deviate from Scripture routinely get criticism from their own flock and from other CI ministers. All CI adherents are free to leave their congregations at any time. Donations are accepted as within any mainstream church. CI is based on Scripture, not pastor-worship or leader-worship. Nor does CI ask its adherents to abandon reason in favor of unprovable doctrines.

14.)CI accepts both the Old Testament and the New Testament, in the original Hebrew and Greek writings, as the inspired word of God. We reject the notion that either Testament is preferable to the other or that one or the other Testament is obsolete.

15.)CI teaches that the Name of God, Yahweh (the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, YHWH), has been deliberately obscured by the Masoretes of Judaism and by faulty Christian scholarship. We seek to revive the use of this Name, as it was given to us in Exodus 3:15. The Jewish teaching that Yahweh’s Name is “too holy to be pronounced” is an anti-Scriptural dogma that cannot be found in the Bible.

16.)CI teaches that the Bible was written to, by, for and about Israel exclusively and that the Jewish people are not and cannot be identified with Israel, thus the Jewish claim to the authorship and stewardship of the Bible is fraudulent. The other races of this planet will eventually recognize the White Race as God’s Chosen People.

17.)CI teaches that Mosaism and Judaism are antithetical doctrines, with the Mosaic Law being Yahweh’s own Law. Jewish law, on the contrary, presumes to overrule Yahweh’s Mosaic Law. Despite Judaism’s claims, Christianity is the sole inheritor of the Mosaic tradition.

18.)CI believes in all of the prophecies of both the Old and New Testaments, including the fact that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Messianic prophecies.

19.)The Old Testament food laws should be obeyed for proper health.

20.)CI understands that communism and Zionism are both directly a result of the Talmudic teachings of the rabbis of Judaism. Zionism is openly and obviously Jewish in origin. Jews have sought to hide the fact that communism is also a Talmudic doctrine. Both Zionism and communism were conceived by Rabbi Moses Hess. Communism has been promoted by Jews ever since, including such notable figures as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky (Bronstein), Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin (Jewison), Rosa Luxembourg, Bela Kuhn, and hundreds of others. In spite of their record of horrific violence, these terrorists are actually celebrated by most Jews and openly worshipped by liberal Jews.

The Role of Christian Identity in Society

Only a straightforward and honest debate of Scripture and history will determine whether Christian Identity or Judaism is the rightful claimant to the Covenants of the Bible. In this regard, Christian Identity and Judaism are on an equal footing: Each group claims to be the rightful heir to the Promises and Covenants of Scripture. But, this one glaring fact remains: Judaism is doing everything in its power to obstruct open discussion and debate of Christian Identity. Organized Jewry fully understands the theological position of Christian Identity. Jewish groups, such as the ADL, have chosen to attack the theology of Christian Identity rather than engage in dialogue or debate. Jews and other critics of Identity have created the false impression that Christian Identity is a violent movement. On the contrary, Christian Identity has an established record of peaceful protest and determined consciousness-raising, so that White People who are dissatisfied with orthodox Christianity can belong to a Faith which makes both rational and theological sense out of the Bible. Under no circumstances does Christian Identity advocate the violent overthrow of any government or regime. We advocate the right to practice our Faith as the US Constitution mandates, without interference from any arbitrary, self-appointed or antagonistic Censor.