The Biblical Roots: Live Q&A! 

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Yes, once you are in that movement there is no seeing things differently unless God opens their eyes. Its a very strong delusion. But I came out it after 6 yrs, and I know many others who did as well after a number of years. Yes just keep praying!

just keep praying and showing them the fruit of the Spirit, a life filled with the love of God and love for people. That’s what God showed me: the contrasting differences between religion and a relationship with Him.

@tessaelstran I'm saying a prayer for you and your family. I'd like to give you a bit of my personal testimony, for your encouragement. I was raised in a Christian home and had been a Christian myself for over 20 years, before I was seduced into the TO movement. It was a really slow fade for me as I moved away from Christianity to being Torah Observant. But I must say that God's Word does not return void. I was in the TO movement exclusively (not having anything to do with the Christian church) for over 10 years. My mom never really said anything negative about it, except to say that she was concerned that I was converting to Judaism. But although she didn't say much, I know she prayed for me and am convinced that prayer was what brought me out. During those 10 years, there were little things that seemed not quite right about some of the teachings & the things that were said by the people in this movement. But then, I just thought that nobody was ever 100% correct about everything, so I could overlook a few things here and there. There are so many things that I could tell you about how being a part of this movement really does change the very core of your belief, but I'll try to keep this short. The change happens so slowly and subtly that you don't realize how far away you are from Jesus until, by His beautiful grace, He wakes you up out of it. The thing that woke me up was listening to a teacher that I had never heard of before. For some reason, he came up in my suggestions on RU-vid, and I didn't even realize at the time that he wasn't a TO teacher but was, in fact, a Christian teacher. His sermon was a very simple presentation of the gospel (the same that I had heard a thousand times before in the Christian church). I cannot even relay to you how that beautiful, simple message absolutely floored me! It was like fresh, cool, spring water to one that was dying of thirst. Sadly, I didn't realize that I was that dying person till I drank of the simple gospel message again. So many things happened in the moments during and after that message. I felt the yearning of a child for home, without realizing I had been away from it.... I realized that, in my pursuit of Biblical wisdom, I had actually turned away from the grace of God.... I felt the heaviness and shame of my sin and repented.... and then I felt washed from filth that I didn't realize had accumulated on me. After my eyes were open to the simple Truth of God's Word again, I realized (with great shock) that I hadn't actually heard the gospel message in all those years in the TO movement. The realization that this group of "believers" was more concerned about if I spent Christmas day with my Christian family than they were about sharing the gospel of Christ to a dying world was my wake-up call. I am believing and praying with you that your children will be woken up to the real truth of God's Word. Just keep loving on them and try to avoid arguing about the issues; continue praying for them & never stop sharing the simple, beautiful truth of God's Word as He leads you. 🙏❤ With love & prayers, Katrina

LOST your wife??

FFOZ has specifically called out the "Hebrew Roots" movement as "....not messianic judaism" and also... "Messianic Judaism is a prophetic movement of the Holy Spirit. The Hebrew Roots movement is something else" ( email dated July 2024 - I'm on their mailing list)

Hope you enjoyed it, Kim! RLS

Interesting. Would you say the book you referenced is accessible to laymen? Asking because it sounds like something I MIGHT like to read as long as it's not too scholarly/technical. (I'm not stupid, but I've had a stroke & I find I get bogged down if too much technical language is used).

True...Colossians 2:14 This is commonly expounded of the sentence of eternal death pronounced against sinful Adam, and all his posterity, for having sinned in him. Others would have it to signify only the yoke and obligations of the Mosaical law, which could not of itself remit sins, and occasionally made persons greater sinners. This sentence of death (whether we understand the one or the other) Christ took away, fastening it as it were, to the cross, taking it away by his death on the cross.

And Ephesians 2:14 Christ destroyed the enmity which, like a wall of separation, stood between Jew and Gentile, and united them into one people. He did this in his flesh, by his own blood, or the sacrifice he made of his flesh on the cross.

@@DaVinci3333 yes, praise Him

That's a great question, Shelly! I think a case could be made that prior to meeting Jesus, Paul was keeping Torah by "breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord" (Acts 9:1). This would be based on Deut. 17:2-7, which mandates death by stoning for anyone who violates God's covenant by worshiping foreign deities. And before he was saved, Paul would have considered worship of Jesus idolatry and perhaps even worshipping a foreign god. The big difference between pre-saved Paul and "Torah-keeping" Christians is that "Torah-keepers" believe in Jesus and accept His divinity (for the most part). So they would not view the worship of Jesus as idolatry. Blessings, Rob

Rob to add to what you were saying he was following Judaism’s traditions of the fathers which is now rabbinic Judaism. Many people do not know that this is actually what Jews follow not the Bible. This is the oral law they got from Exodus 20 making boundaries around the mountain. These are man made traditions they created (breaks commandments 1-3) to control people. Which is the idolatry of the world. Create a religion and people control the rules not God. The Bible is our focus. And as you mentioned they are not following Torah but the traditions of Judaism which in large part are man made too. Even in Messianic Judaism which I came from they are teaching Gentiles to do Jewish teachings and wear Jewish garb because for the most part their services are rabbinic. The Torah is to reveal sin in us not focus us on traditions. Thank you again

Can you elaborate on this? I have been looking for evidence of this outside the Mosaic Law. It appears that Sabbath was initiated with the manna gathering instructions (Exodus 16) to test whether Israel would obey Torah, prior to its being given; and in Exodus 20 Sabbath is linked to God’s pattern of creation-seemingly the first mention of it in thousands of years according to the genealogies. I can’t find any mention of human Sabbath observation prior to Israel’s formation.

@@petrosorr I would love to elaborate. However, You tube censors my comments because they have Biblical truths on them. My reply to your request was not allowed, and was censored by YT