JOEL 2 GENERATION

We live in a day and an age when theological ideas spread easily with the uploading of a video and/or the publishing of a blog post. And with COVID many followers of Christ stopped meeting with other Christians in person, in their churches and have stayed virtual ever since. This has provided a perfect storm for theologically HETERODOX ideas to spread. Heterodox means ideas that do not conform with the Apostolic faith and practice. Many are "claiming" to be 'Biblical' but their ideas are not what Christ and His Apostles taught the church. Remember, heretics are almost always 'Biblical', in that they use the Bible to support their heretical doctrines, but they are misusing, misunderstanding and misapplying the Scriptures. This is precisely what the "Hebrew Roots Movement" or those who follow Christ but call themselves "Torah Observant" are doing with the New Testament. In the name of being "Biblical", they are actually violating th...

Old Testament Dietary Laws?  Sabbath Observance?  Jewish Feast Days?  Circumcision?  In recent years, an ancient deception has crept back into the Church focused upon these very questions. Ancient because it was a false teaching that was trying to get root in the 1st Century Church and was arguably the main false teaching that the Apostle Paul had to address in his letters.  How glorious that the Lord Jesus Christ rescued a Pharisee named Paul, an expert teacher of the Mosaic Law, to address this error in his many epistles.  How tragic that today, the Hebrew Roots Movement (sometimes referring to themselves as those who are "Torah Observant") is infecting the Body of Christ with the very same errors that Paul sought to extinguish in his writings nearly 2000 years ago! ( Note: I would add another group, called Commonwealth Theology (*see below) to this discussion as some of them advocate the keeping of the Mosaic Law for Gentile believers) What exactly is th...