Various Studies
“Once saved always saved” is a doctrine, although not as prevalent as the Predestination, created by men that once a Christian “accepts Christ as a personal Savior” he or she becomes “born again” and cannot lose his or her salvation. Not all mainstream Christian Churches, such as the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, support this doctrine. “Once saved always saved” doctrine is supported and it is even a main...
Read More »Predestination vs Free Will is a paradox created by men and the heavenly predestination is one of the most inaccessible mysteries, locked in the realm of YHVH’s reason and wisdom. The human mind, falling short on comprehension and limited in its ability to grasp what is inconceivable to grasp, will never be able to understand this mystery of predestination and free will. There is nothing as proud or as curious as the human mind or what the human mind thinks of itself....
Read More »Little is known that YHVH’s covenant with the Levites is called Covenant of Salt. “Covenant of salt” comes from YHVH’s command that everything brought on the altar must be seasoned with salt; salt is not be lacking from any blood or bloodless sacrifices for the purpose of giving greater intensity to the force of these sacrifices (Lev 2:13). And if salt is so important to YHVH, then we understand that the salt of the sacrifice is also called the salt...
Read More »The Rabbis teach that “lashon hara”, evil tongue, is punishable with “tsara’at”, “leprosy”. They also teach that a Jew cannot speak evil tongue against another Jew, and rightfully so. They derive this teaching from the story in Numbers 12 where Miriam and Aharon spoke against their brother Mosheh. Miriam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had married. Later in the story she was punished with...
Read More »“You are not under the Law but under grace” statement in Romans 6 is probably the most quoted by many theologians phrase (along with others) to “prove” that the new Gentile believers are not to observe the commands in the Torah of YHVH. Tons of papers have been written to justify the rejection of the Torah and replacing it with the laws of men and traditions rooted in paganism incorporated into the faith. Faith did not change Rome, Rome changed the...
Read More »According to the main stream doctrine of the Christianity, the Jerusalem Council exempted the Christians from observing the Law and recommended only four prohibitions for them to observe. Part of this doctrine is that the apostles abolished circumcision of the Christians because they are not “under the Law”. However, if that were the intent of the apostles, why did they continue to be Law-observant for decades after the resurrection of the Messiah if “the...
Read More »Question: What is the meaning of the Law of God? Answer: When a Christian fellow asks a Torah-observant believer in Yeshua the question, ‘What is the meaning of the Law of God, of these laws, rules, and regulations, you do? Do you have to do all these dos and don’ts? Aren’t they done away with?’, what do we say in return? What is the best Scriptural answer to such questions? We may say something in that nature, ‘Yehovah has commanded us to do all...
Read More »The Palestinian terrorism never ceases. It will continue unless Israel learns the lesson the hard way the forefathers learned in the time of Yehoshua: do not give land to the terrorists, drive them out, all of them. The more land Israel gives, the more Palestinian terrorism we will see in the land. As of writing this article approximately 700 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza by the Palestinians since the violence began on Shabbat morning, 4 May 2019, as the nation...
Read More »The booty of war has always been a controversial issue in the history of mankind, which continues even today. Kingdoms had invaded other kingdoms, world empires had come and gone, and national treasures had changes possessions. In this article, we will study what the Torah teaches about the laws of warfare and booty of war and how Israel is to wage war against its enemies. Laws for future wars The laws of warfare in Deuteronomy 20 have reference to the wars which Israel...
Read More »Why is it customary in the rabbinical tradition for the Jewish children to begin learning the Torah of YHVH with Leviticus rather than Genesis? Because Leviticus is the most important book in the Bible? Because the Temple sacrifices are very important? Is it just customary, or Leviticus (Vayikra) has something that we do not know? This article is a continuation of the article “Which is the Most Important Book in the Bible?” in which we learned the Omniscient has...
Read More »In the Scripture, there are two righteous men about whom it was said that they walked with Elohim: Chanoch (Enoch) in Gen_5:24 and Noach in Gen_6:9. However, when it was said that they walked with Elohim, how does it translate to us? What is to walk with Elohim? This will be the subject of our study. Albert Einstein said that if you cannot explain something simply, you do not understand it very well. King James’ version of the Bible reads the Letter to the Hebrews, as...
Read More »During the trial of Job, his wife said, ‘Curse God and die!’ but did she really said it, or she said something else? In the article “Misunderstanding of Job’s Trial Few Could Bear” the present author intentionally omitted in his teaching a verse in Job 2 according to which Job’s wife said, ‘Curse God and die!’ Let us recall the Job story. Iyov (Job) was a righteous man. And the messengers came to present themselves before YHVH. And YHVH said to the satan,...
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