The Twelve Tribes

Movement·Founded 1972 CE·The community reports something over 2,000 members across communities in around a dozen countries. There is no external count.

Judaism → Christianity → The Twelve Tribes

The Twelve TribesArchiveJudge Mahady's 1984 opinion, published by the community itselfThe recordWorld Religions and Spirituality Project — Twelve Tribes

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Y Figure of The Twelve Tribes

Yahshua, not Jesus.

The community uses the Hebrew name and refuses the Greek one, along with the creeds, the cross as an image, and the word Christian — all of them treated as marks of the falling-away.

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Names & titlesYahshua — the Hebrew form the community uses in place of Jesus
DomainThe restoration of a people, and the return
Depicted asNot depicted; the community makes no images
StandingSon of Yahweh, worshipped; the refusal of the name Jesus is doctrinal, not stylistic
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

The community uses Yahshua, a reconstructed Hebrew form, and treats Jesus as a corrupted name attached to a corrupted religion. It rejects the Nicene formula, does not use the cross as an image, and reads the whole New Testament through the Hebrew scriptures rather than the other way round. Its Christology is high — Yahshua is the son of Yahweh and is worshipped — but the vocabulary is deliberately outside the Christian mainstream, and it is one of the first things a visitor notices. The community regards the difference in names as the difference between the restored faith and the fallen one.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas
The four gospels — and why four. Christianity · scripture Open the book →
The life of Jesus, year by year. The Urantia Movement · story Read it in full →
The Rigveda. Vedic Religion · scripture Open the book →
When dharma decays, the divine descends. Hinduism · core tenet Go deeper →
The Pali Canon. Buddhism · scripture Open the book →
The Agamas. Jainism · scripture Open the book →

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