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Abortion

I am encountering many progressive Christians and Jews who support abortion. This is very confusing to me. I need some better answers to their statements about human life.

Acts 15:21, Ongoing Controversies

I have heard you say that you do not believe that Acts 15:21 is the most important verse, detailing the events of the Jerusalem Council. Can you please explain?

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Bilateral Ecclesiology

Can you please explain to me why bilateral ecclesiology can be a major divisive issue in Messianic theology?

B’nei Yisrael

Does the Hebrew b’nei Yisrael mean “sons of Israel” or “children of Israel”?

Born Again at Resurrection

Is it, or is it not, true, that many of those who advocate a doctrine of psychopannychy (“soul sleep”), also believe that the redeemed are “born again” at the future resurrection of the dead?

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Circumcision

How is the issue of circumcision approached within today’s Messianic community?

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I can understand how you think that capital penalties for sin, were absorbed by Yeshua’s death on the cross (Colossians 2:14). But what are we to make of the death penalty being enacted in the future Millennium?

Death, What Happens at

How are today’s Messianic people to best approach the topic of what happens at death? Do people die, and then enter into complete unconsciousness until the resurrection? Or, do people die, and then have their consciousness transferred to another dimension, until the resurrection? Is “soul sleep” something that we need to be seriously considering, or does it need to be dismissed as a false teaching?

Dispensationalism

Can you please elaborate on how dispensational theology has affected the development of the modern Messianic movement?

Distinction Theology

Can you help me sort through what is circulating as “distinction theology,” in various parts of the Messianic movement?

Divine Identity Christology

What is a Divine Identity Christology? How does a Divine Identity Christology serve as strong evidence of Yeshua the Messiah being God?

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Flat Earth

What is the Flat Earth theory, and how badly has it affected the thinking of some of today’s Messianic people?

Flat Earth, Dome

Supporters of a Flat Earth claim from Genesis 1:6-8, that the firmament above the ground is a hard structure, enclosing the Earth. Can you help me sort through this?

Funeral Customs, Messianic

Can you give me a good idea about the various funeral customs witnessed within today’s Messianic movement, regarding the final disposition of the deceased?

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Galatians, Understanding

How can today’s Messianic movement widely advocate that the Torah is still valid, when Galatians is clear that the Law of Moses was a thing of the past?

Genesis 9:2-3 Septuagint, “Every Reptile”

How am I supposed to approach Genesis 9:2-3 from the Greek Septuagint, which actually gave Noah permission to eat “every reptile”?

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Hebrew Roots Movement

Why does the Hebrew Roots movement have such a negative reputation in the Messianic Jewish movement? Why is it looked at as a spiritual plague?

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Isaiah 3:12, Women Ruling

Isaiah 3:12 serves as direct condemnation of a society or religious community, which allows females to rule or lead.

Isaiah 66:8, State of Israel

I have encountered some teachings, that Isaiah 66:8 is not about the rebirth of the State of Israel in 1948.

Islamic Beast Theory

What do you think of the Islamic Beast Theory?

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John 14:1-6

Is it indeed true that Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth, says that He alone is the only means to the Father? What about all of the people on Earth, especially Jewish people, who died and never acknowledged Him?

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Matthew 19:26-36, Eternal Life

Does Matthew 19:16-26 at all teach that someone keeping Torah commandments, could earn eternal life?

Messiah, Anticipated by Second Temple Judaism

There are many claims made against the Messiahship of Yeshua by Jewish anti-missionaries. Many of these are based in post-Second Temple deliberations over the claims of Yeshua of Nazareth. But based on theological and philosophical views present within the Second Temple period, was it at all possible for Second Temple Jews to anticipate a figure like Yeshua arriving on the scene?

Messiah, Divine

Why does the Messiah have to be Divine? How significant is the debate over the Divinity of Yeshua to contemporary Messianic theology?

Millennialism

Can you please help me sort through the different perspectives of “Millenialism”?

Millennial Generation

Is it possible for those in today’s Messianic movement to be able to communicate with those of the Millennial generation?

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Naaman the Aramean (2 Kings 5)

When Naaman the Aramean was healed of his leprosy and acknowledged the One God of Israel, there was nothing stated about him having to keep various matters of Torah.

Noahide Laws Conspiracy

What are the seven Noahide laws? I recently heard a teaching that Orthodox Jews are secretly controlling the New World Order, and that they will impose the Noahide laws to get people to only worship God proper, and that those who worship Yeshua the Messiah will be put to death.

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One Law/One Torah, Status of Movement

How would you describe the current status of the One Law/One Torah sub-movement? What is your relationship as a ministry toward it?

Ordination

Can you give me an idea about the, or at least a, Messianic process of ordination? I see many leaders out there bearing titles such as: rabbi, pastor, teacher. What was the process they went about, getting ordained and receiving such a title?

Overly-Realized Eschatology

How do you respond to the view of some, that Millennial Kingdom worldwide Torah practices, such as the remembrance of the seventh-day Sabbath or Feast of Tabernacles—should not be breaking into the present time? Are non-Jewish Believers who are anticipating these things by keeping them, holding to an “overly-realized eschatology”?

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Parable of the Vineyard-Landowner-Wicked Tenants,
Replacement Theology

Is it irrefutably true that the Messiah said that the Kingdom would be transferred from the Jewish people, to the Gentile Church?

Polygamy, Aberration

What is polygamy? While it is surely an uncomfortable topic to discuss, a man having multiple wives is something that one encounters in reading various parts of the Tanach. How should we as Messiah followers approach this topic? Today’s Messianic people do read the Torah on a fairly consistent basis, and doubtlessly encounter polygamy.

Pre-Wrath Rapture

Can you help me to understand some of the differences between the pre-wrath rapture, and a post-tribulation rapture?

Privileged Perspectives, Apparent

I have encountered many people in my Messianic experience, who believe that they have special information or perspectives. Much of this actually manifests in people thinking that they are entitled to just talk or say anything they want about various matters, offering no references or documentation to what they say. Can you please help?

Pronomian Christianity

How would you evaluate the movement calling itself Pronomian or Pronomian Christianity? Are you a part of it?

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Return, the Messiah Not Knowing Its Time

The Messiah told His Disciples that He did not know the time of His return. Could this possibly mean that the Messiah was not God?

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Sacred Name Onlyism

In encountering various materials and teachings that carry labels like “Messianic” or “Hebrew Roots,” have you seen the proper name of God, YHWH/YHVH, used quite affluently? Has it even been implied that various scribes and religious authorities have purposefully hidden the Divine Name? What is Sacred Name Onlyism?

Second Coming, Hastening

How should today’s Messianic people approach the end-times? How many people are motivated by fear and their feelings? How many people are trying to calculate Date X? How many of us need to be refocused onto the mission and purposes of the Kingdom of God?

Synagogue of Satan

How am I supposed to approach the controversial issue of the Synagogue of Satan, in Revelation 2:9; 3:9? This has often been applied as a support for many violent anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish acts.

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Talmud, Messianics and the

What is your position concerning the Talmud? Should Messianic people consider the Talmud as containing important information for their study of the Scriptures?

Tattooing and Body Piercing

I have noticed that many of the younger people in my congregation are getting tattooed, and/or that they have many odd body piercings. What does the Torah say about this?

Theistic Evolution

To what extent has the influence of theistic evolution, in certain quarters of theology, possibly affected discussions over the afterlife and future resurrection?

Theonomy

Can you please help me with understanding what “theonomy” is? Why have you considered this a problem?

Torah, biggest challenges

What do you think the biggest challenges are regarding today’s Messianic Believers and the Torah?

Torah, great interest in

In the past several decades, the numbers of today’s Messianic movement have grown because of an increased interest of non-Jewish Believers wanting to tangibly connect to their faith heritage in the Scriptures of Israel. Is the non-Jewish interest in the Torah, a modern manifestation of legalism and people trying to earn their salvation? Or, is it something to be legitimately anticipated as we get closer and closer to the Messiah’s return?

Torah, how much can be followed today

When you read through the Torah, do you have difficulty determining what commandments can actually be followed today in the Twenty-First Century? When you look at various instructions to Ancient Israel, how are you supposed to consider their importance as a modern person? Are there actually commandments that appear in the Torah, which are only situational to persons who lived in the Ancient Near East?