When one of my closet friends left the evangelical Christian faith and joined the Hebrew Roots Movement - I was shocked. He began to tell us that we must stop eating pork and working on Saturday, keep the Jewish feasts of the Old Testament, and cancel Christmas celebrations. I knew the claims that he made were untrue and unbiblical, however I struggled to explain why.
Thus began my search for the truth.
I spent hundreds of hours combing through Scripture, reading every book, listening to every podcast, and watching every YouTube video that I could find on the Hebrew Roots Movement. I quickly realized the lack of Biblical support for the false doctrines asserted by the "Torah Observant" crowd.
I then began to find more and more people both online and in my own life who have friends and loved ones who believe the false doctrines of the Hebrew Roots Movement. These individuals are searching for answers - they are searching for the truth. This blog is committed to sharing resources that teach the truth and challenge the lies of the Hebrew Roots Movement.
That raises the question: what is the Hebrew Roots Movement?
I define the Hebrew Roots Movement as former evangelical Christians who now place an unhealthy emphasis on the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith.
The majority of those in the Hebrew Roots Movement were previously evangelical Christians. Very few individuals in this growing movement are converts from atheism or any other religion. They do not have a unified doctrinal statement, so their beliefs are quite diverse. Some still believe in Christ - while others are so enamored with the Torah that they deny the very deity of Jesus.
The Hebraic roots of our Christian faith are wonderful and should be studied and cherished by all believers. There is a significant amount of symbolism and meaning contained in the Jewish origins of our faith, however to place more emphasis on those roots than the Bible does is an unhealthy emphasis. The Hebrew Roots Movement places significant emphasis on the Mosaic law, the feasts of Israel, and the old covenant. None of these things are bad things - they were clearly part of God's plan of salvation. However, we are no longer under obligation to the specific commands God gave to Israel, including the Mosaic law, the feasts, and the old covenant.
The problem that arises with the Hebrew Roots Movement is threefold: (1) they focus on proselytizing to the Christian church to gain more followers instead of reaching out to the lost with the hope of Christ, (2) they put a stumbling block (the Mosaic law) in the way of those who would turn from their sin and accept Christ, and finally (3) they rob the glory that is due Christ for His work on the cross and instead glorify their own attempted law-keeping.
This blog is dedicated to sharing resources that challenge the Hebrew Roots Movement and equip Christians to lovingly speak the truth into the lives of their friends and loved ones.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it qa'dash (sn - holy). 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of YHUH (sn - Lord) your Aluahym (sn - God). In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates." Shemoth (sn- Exodus) 20:8-10
12 "Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am YHUH (sn - Lord) that sanctify them." YihazAl (sn - Ezekiel) 20:12
10 "And, behold, there was a man…
One example: In Leviticus 23 for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, YHUH clearly states to not eat any leaven in the bread - unleavened bread you are to eat - "for ever". This generation today is part of the meaning of 'forever'.
"14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your Aluahym [YHUH's restored title]: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings."
Please provide Scriptural support for these claims; and include Strong's Concordance meanings. Also, please use the Abariy language for defining the concepts of the Natsarim. Thank you.
Paul makes it clear: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Lawkeepers are blind to the truth of the Gospel. There are different degrees to be sure, but all of them diminish Christ and what He has accomplish for us, even changing our very identity that we may be conformed to His image.
Like Ishmael who mocked Isaac, so those who trust in Christ will be mocked by those who trust in the works of the law. But sadly, the son of the bondwoma…
You provide your definition of who you think someone is who follows the "Hebrew Roots" movement(s). The Hebrew Roots movement covers a very broad range of followers.....so, you specifically define on your own terms what is a very broad ramge of people.
Then, you support your narrow viewpoint with articles written by mamy other people and ministries, across a fairly broad spectrum, and nothing original.
You see the problem? You have no idea what you are talking about.