"The Torah is the first five books of our Bible and it hasn't been done away with. Right? We love the
Torah and we teach from it. Torahism, on the other hand, is the dangerous and unbiblical misapplication of the old covenant commands of God on new covenant believers in Jesus.
Torah and we teach from it. Torahism, on the other hand, is the dangerous and unbiblical misapplication of the old covenant commands of God on new covenant believers in Jesus.
Now, Toraism isn't a monolithic movement. They don't have a single governing body or a codified set of doctrines that everyone agrees on.
It's it's a disperate collection of different groups and organizations. And their theology ranges a bit from group to group. But the thread that ties them all together is the mistaken belief that new covenant Christians are required to keep the old covenant rituals.
It's it's a disperate collection of different groups and organizations. And their theology ranges a bit from group to group. But the thread that ties them all together is the mistaken belief that new covenant Christians are required to keep the old covenant rituals.
Things like the dietary laws, the feasts, the seventh day Sabbath, the tassels, and so on. And they further believe that not keeping those things is sinful and rebellious and disobedient to God..."
This little gem has been lighting up Facebook the past few days, sparking huge conversations about how the Hebrew Roots movement is oh-so-helpfully "disrupting" mainstream Christian congregations and tearing families apart by demanding that the law still needs to be kept.
They're bravely calling out the classic combo: British Israelism mixed with a trendy appropriation of Jewish culture—while conveniently rejecting actual Jewish voices and input. Yep, that sure does sound exactly like Armstrongism in action! Because nothing says "healthy spiritual influence" like showing up and systematically destroying everything it touches. Keep up the great work, folks—division and chaos are clearly the fruits of the Spirit we're all craving.
A Facebook reader posted:
I'll be honest, I don't mind loosing more "friends" over this.
A literal mapping and warning to the Body of Messiah about this unbalanced, rebranding of Hebert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God Cult has been badly needed since the 1990's. It doesn't matter how an adherent of the cultic teachings came to them.
The ministry that made the statement is rightly concerned about aberrant Hebrew Roots Cultic teachings, their influence on mainstream churches. Having a way to monitor and protect churches from their unbalanced doctrines and influence is absolutely necessary and has been needed since the 1990's.
Many of them have renamed themselves "messianic congregations" or ministries, coopting actual Messianic Congregations with Jewish Believers having real input (because they are an expression of our own culture and people).
The Hebrew Roots Cultists are the reason I have limited by involvement with even Messianic Congresgations, because they were the first that were adversely impacted by the HR Cult and their teachings whether or not followers know about the roots of this Cult, nor how they came to believe and teach what they teach separated from the Cult itself, because they still teach, believe and harm others with their Cultic teachings. Many are well meaning, very sincere, and others are very harmful with their rhetoric. Either way, the HR Movement by any name is British Israelism and Cultural Appropriation of Jewish culture while rejecting Jews and our Jewish perspective and voices. That last sentence identifies the worst part: Hebrew Roots is an expression Suppercessionism (Replacement Theology), it is arrogance and the very kind of "boasting against the branches" that Paul warns about in Romans 11. Paul's letter to the Romans (the only letter to a church he didn't start, because they were to evil in rejecting Jewish believers return to Rome after being framed for the burning of Rome along with the rest of the Jewish community by a previous Emperor), was his surgical strike to execute ROMAN Imperialistic Supercessionism when it began in the Nacent Roman Catholic Church
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