Christian response,

This Group on Facebook is inundated with Judaizers and Black Hebrew Israelite cult members. Do not allow these heretics to take away your freedom in Christ, a freedom found in grace through faith, NOT in obedience to the Law of Moses. The Christian is under grace and not under the Law of Moses and our obedience in sanctification is defined by our walk in the Spirit through the Law of Conscience NOT the letter (Romans 2:15). I am NOT suggesting that the abolition of the Law of Moses in the Covenant of Grace i.e. Christianity somehow negates the veracity of those moral laws given Moses but that Jesus Christ through His commandments in the Covenant of Grace actually enhanced the holiness of Law through the New Covenant established in His blood and by the Spirit. Jesus Christ established a higher order of holiness in the New Covenant as the conscience (thought life) of man was included as a legal element defining sin (Matthew 5:27-28). No longer does a man’s actions only define sin but the thought life of man, mens rea, also brings condemnation in the Covenant of Grace i.e. a higher standard of holiness than the Law of Moses. It is the conscience of man in tune with the Spirit that manifests obedience through the process of sanctification NOT arduous effort to obey a Law that only wars with the flesh but cannot bring conformity as the letter of the Law manifests only in guilt and condemnation and death (Romans 3).

The Law of God, concerning that given the Hebrew Tribes, has NOTHING to do with the Christian…NOTHING to do with sanctification or righteousness. The Gentiles were NEVER given the Law of Moses or the Commandments as these were given to the children of Israel in the Covenant of Law as the Hebrew Tribes were set-apart for God’s specific purposes and they were to be Holy as God is Holy. Jesus Christ, during His Earthly ministry, established new Commandments that supersede the Law of Moses as the Law of Moses was fulfilled in Messiah (Matthew 5:17) and passed away in its inferiority to the Law of Conscience through Christ and the indwelling Spirit.

Christian response,

Are you suggesting that the New Testament is not inspired or that Paul’s words are not inspired by the Holy Spirit? Consider this, please?

Where you err is doubting the power of God in the Holy Spirit. Consider the radical importance, the Eternal significance, of the Scriptures defining the Covenant of Grace in Jesus Christ; these Scriptures literally differentiate life from death, Eternity in Christ from death in Hell. I ask you, what hope of Eternal life is found in the Hebrew text? How does a man find atonement for sin in the Law? If the blood of animals sprinkled on the mercy seat year-after-year had actually forgiven sin and made the children of Israel perfect in righteousness, would the blood not have ceased to be offered and all of Israel saved yet we understand that only a remnant of Israel will enter the Kingdom of God (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27?). Why? How do the many billions of men and women – Gentiles (non-Jews, the Nations), from Adam to Abraham to this very day, those who never had access to the Law, find atonement for sin and life with God in Eternity? Are they hopeless and destined to Hell?

Where you err is not understanding or refusing to believe that the very same omnipotent God who took elements from the unseen Spiritual World and fashioned those elements into matter that can be apprehended by life constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3, John 1, Colossians1, Genesis 1) this very same God is also fully capable of providing you and me with the EXACT words He desires we have so that we can know Him personally; love Him intimately; live with Him eternally.

How is it that you point to the majesty of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Torah, and magnify the God of Law yet deny the very same God of Grace that fulfilled that Law for you (Matthew 5:17) and offers you His perfection in righteousness for the atonement of your sin thereby opening the Door of Life to the Kingdom (John 10:9-16) by grace through faith in Yeshua-Jesus (John 3:16)? Why do you doubt that the very same Spirit who Authored the Hebrew Text has also Authored the Covenant of Grace?

Theological question posited on FB: “How can I be sure that I am in the one body since there are over 34,000 branches of the Christian faith?”

Christian response,

Question concerning the virgin birth of Messiah posited on FB: “Why do some people deny the virgin birth that Mary had [when a] supernatural birth is indisputable with scripture?”

Christian response,

People who deny the virgin birth of Jesus Christ don’t trust the Holy Spirit and His omnipotence in narrating and preserving the word of God down through the history of mankind (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21; Matthew 24:35). People who deny the virgin birth of Messiah fail to understand the significance of Messiah entering Time through the womb of a virgin woman in order to bypass the sin-nature that is transferred genetically through the man, Adam, and every father subsequent to Adam (Romans 5:12-21; 1 Corinthians 15:22).

God the Father prophesied in Genesis 3:15 that there would come One through the seed of the woman who would do battle with Satan and ultimately crush Satan’s head and Satan would bruise His heal…this was fulfilled 4000-years later at the Crucifixion where Messiah Jesus destroyed the works of the Devil i.e. DEATH – HELL – the GRAVE (Genesis 3:21; 1 John 3:8b; Galatians 4:4; Hebrews 2:14).

It is the virgin birth through the power of the Holy Spirit manifesting in the hypostatic union of God and man (Philippians 2:8) that empowered Jesus, in His humanity, to live a perfect, sinless life and fulfill the righteous requirements of the Law of Moses and the Commandments with perfection (Matthew 5:17). It is Messiah’s sinless perfection that allowed Him to become sin for us by shedding His innocent blood for the remission of sin (Matthew 26:28) and then impute His perfection over the life of everyone who believes that Jesus died for their sins and was resurrected from the dead for their justification (Romans 10:9-10; 2 Corinthians 5:21). It is the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ that moves the Father to declares those who trust in Jesus as Lord “NOT GUILTY” of sin and impart within the faithful believer the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Seal and Guarantor of relationship with God, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 10:28-30).

If not for the virgin birth of Messiah, all of mankind would remain dead in their sin (John 8:24) and ultimately lose both body and soul in the second death in Hell (Matthew 10:28; Revelation 20:11-15). Faith is KEY to righteousness but Jesus’ innocent blood is essential for atonement for sin. Without atonement, there is no life in the Kingdom as God will not permit our unrepentant sin to enter His Kingdom subsequent to the death of our body in Time (Revelation 21:27)

Finally, it is Messiah’s virgin birth that permitted Him to fulfill the Law that mankind could not fulfill seeing that all of mankind is under the condemnation of sin (Romans 3:23); to violate one jot or tittle of the Law is to violate the whole Law; therefore, the Law only condemns and kills (James 2:10; Romans 3). Those who reject Messiah’s virgin birth reject the central overarching theme of the Scriptures from the Genesis to the Revelation; that is, God entered Time through the womb of a virgin and gave Himself for the redemption of His created beings and in doing so God destroyed the works of the Devil thereby setting apart a people for Himself that would serve Him in His Kingdom in faithfulness and love and relationship forever (Genesis 3:21; Revelation 1:6).

The words promulgating a false gospel on FB > “When we are saved (by grace) from a sin we have committed it means we are given another chance to obey the ten commandments so that we can attain eternal life. It does not mean we have been given a free pass to eternal life and we can now reject/ignore the ten commandments.”

A Christian response,

“I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.” Galatians 2:21 (NASB)

The Commandments, as given the Hebrew Tribes, could never bring righteousness through atonement as the Law only defined sin and condemned men and women to death in Hell (Romans 3) because righteousness through obedience to the Law can only manifest through perfect obedience and to violate one jot or tittle of the Law is to violate the whole Law (James 2:10); therefore, mankind, who is a sinner by nature (Romans 3:23) can never find righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father through the Law because we’re unable to keep the Law perfectly – but – God the Father, “before the beginning of Time” (1 Timothy 1:10), ordained a Plan known as The Gospel (Good News) (Genesis 3:21) through which He would provide mankind the opportunity to find righteousness with Him through the atonement of sin by the shedding of innocent blood and in doing so, God would “destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) through the perfection of the Son, Jesus Christ, who would enter Time through the womb of a virgin woman (Genesis 3:15) and bypass the sin-nature transferred by the man, Adam (Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:21) and live a perfect, sinless life, and keep the Commandments and the 613-Levitical Laws in perfection (Mt. 5:17) thereby making Himself the ONLY acceptable sacrifice for sin (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 14:6).

When Jesus – Yeshua shed His innocent blood on Golgotha (Mt. 26:28), God the Father declared that His Son’s blood is the ONLY thing He will accept as atonement for your sin (Hebrews 10), my sin (John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5:21), and the blood of Messiah atones for past-present-future sin as our sins that are forgiven by the blood of Christ are cast into the sea of forgetfulness forever (Hebrews 8:12) and the perfection of Jesus Christ is imputed over the life of the one who believes (2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:6-7). In fact, anyone who trusts in the blood of Yeshua-Jesus for atonement and repents of sin (Luke 13:3), believes in their heart that Jesus died for them; that is, for the forgiveness of their sin and that He was resurrected for their justification (Romans 10:9-10), they will receive the Gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Seal and Guarantor of relationship with God, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14).

The one who trusts in Jesus as Lord is secure in our Lord forever and no one, nothing, will ever snatch them out of His hand or the hand of the Father (John 10:28-30; Jude 1:24). The one who has entered into relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus as Lord has received a New Nature through the Spirit and no longer desires to sin against God and when they do sin (Romans 7), they seek forgiveness (1 John 1:9), NOT to reestablish their salvation but they seek forgiveness to reestablish intimacy with our Lord as sin fractures intimacy and the greatest Gift of the Christian Life is the peace and joy in relationship with God through fellowship with the indwelling Holy Spirit (Romans 5:1; Philippians 4:7; John 14:27).

Conclusion,

So then, the Law demonstrates the righteousness of God as it defines sin and the Law also demonstrates our inability to earn our own forgiveness-atonement-salvation through attempted obedience to said Law and the Law demonstrates our need for an Intercessor between our sin and God the Father (1 Timothy 2:5). The Law cannot save mankind and anyone who seeks righteousness through the Law will be condemned at Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15) because they have rejected God’s Way to life (John 14:6) in eternity by grace (unmerited favor) through faith (trusting-believing) in Jesus Christ, alone (Ephesians 2:8-9; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

It is written,

30 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness[d] did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is written,

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” Romans 9:30-33 (ESV)

Theological question posited on FB: “Why [do] you teach Jesus only died for Israel? Is God partial, if so, how could this be true?”

Christian response,

Beware of the cult of the Black Hebrew Israelite’s that roam these pages,

Jesus Christ-Yeshua died for the sins of the World and God the Father sent Him to the World through Israel; Israel (Genesis 12:3) is the vessel by which Messiah entered Time through the womb of a virgin woman who is the child of Israel through the Tribe of Judah. Israel is beloved by the Father but Israel rejected their Messiah and demanded that His blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, God has taken His Covenants and Promises to the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in (Romans 11:25) and only a remnant of Israel will be saved due to their stubbornness and hardness of heart (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).

If you are a Jew, a child of Israel, you have no cause to boast but you should humble yourself for the travesty of your forefathers and break-away from the veil of unbelief (2 Corinthians 3:15) and turn to Yeshua today as your God and Savior and pray for God’s mercy and grace upon your life and the life of your family (John 3:16).