Scriptures

How Can So Many Be Wrong? This question is asked of me a lot, in many different disciplines and is worthy of consideration. “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” John 3:12 (ESV) Yeshua’s words reveal a timeless principle: the natural world mirrors the spiritual world. If we can understand how wisdom and truth operates here, we can understand how it operates in the Kingdom of Heaven. All through the scriptures Yeshua gives us earthly …

Mark 7 is often quoted to claim that Jesus abolished the dietary laws of the Torah. Many modern translations even insert a parenthetical line saying: “In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.” Mark 7:19, ESV But is that really what Yeshua (Jesus) taught? When we read the full chapter in its context and in light of the whole Bible, the answer is unmistakable: Yeshua was not abolishing the Torah’s food laws but defending them against the man-made traditions of the Pharisees. The Charge Against Yeshua: Breaking the Elders’ Traditions The …

Justification is by faith, not works. Faith is the root, obedience is the fruit. Salvation begins with faith in Messiah, but genuine faith always leads to walking in God’s commandments. The apostles upheld this pattern exactly as it was established from the beginning: justification by faith, sanctification through obedience. The Dispute: The Circumcision Party “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” Acts 15:1, ESV The conflict began when certain believers from Judea, called the Circumcision Party, taught that Gentile converts must first be circumcised …

“There are some things in Paul’s letters that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless.” 2 Peter 3:16–17, ESV Peter warned that Paul’s writings would be difficult for some to understand, and that the unstable would twist them to promote lawlessness. Romans 14 is a prime example. It has been used for centuries to claim that God’s …

The Issue Was Never What Laws to Keep, but How We Are Justified Many believers today read Paul’s letter to the Galatians and conclude that the Torah no longer applies to followers of Messiah. They see words like “law,” “curse,” and “freedom” and assume Paul was abolishing the torah or obedience itself. But that is not what Galatians teaches. The issue at the heart of this letter is not which laws to obey, but how a person is justified before God. Paul’s entire argument centers on one question: What makes a sinner righteous …

From Genesis to Revelation, the Scriptures speak with one voice: truth must be sought, guarded, and obeyed, no matter the cost. Truth is not a concept to admire but a treasure to pursue. It demands everything. The world treats truth as relative, something shaped by feelings or fashion. Yet Scripture presents truth as something absolute, timeless, and costly. Those who love it must be willing to give up all that competes with it. The Call to Pursue Truth The command to pursue truth begins early in the biblical record. It is not …

“And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.” Deuteronomy 30:6 (ESV) The Eternal Command and Its Purpose From the beginning, circumcision was never merely about cutting flesh, it was about cutting away rebellion to Torah. The mark in the flesh was only ever a sign of a deeper covenant reality. God desires a circumcised heart, a heart that loves and obeys Him. By …

The idea that a commandment must be repeated by Jesus in order to remain valid is both unbiblical and logically absurd. It places man, not God, in the seat of authority to determine what is binding. Nowhere in Scripture do we see such a standard applied. God’s Word does not expire simply because it is not reiterated. The Scriptures declare the opposite: “The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.” Psalm 119:160, (ESV) “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word …

The Accusation Among some students of Torah, there exists a serious concern about the statement attributed to Yeshua in the Gospel of John: “Before Abraham was, I am.” John 8:58, ESV The argument goes that by saying “I am,” Yeshua took upon Himself the sacred Name revealed to Moses at the burning bush in Exodus 3:14—Ehyeh asher Ehyeh (“I AM THAT I AM”). Therefore, some reason, this must be blasphemy, for no man may take the Name of Yehovah upon himself. This is not a new accusation. It is the same charge that …

Modern Christianity often claims that the Law of God, the Torah, was “done away with” or “fulfilled” in such a way that it no longer applies. But what do the Scriptures actually say about changes to God’s law? The answer is clear and uncompromising:We are not permitted to change it. “You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.” Deuteronomy 4:2 (ESV) “Everything that I command you, you shall …