Response to the Current Issue of Kesher: A Journal of Messianic Judaism

Is faith in Yeshua the only means of obtaining eternal salvation? You might be surprised at the answers to that question given by some of the leading authors and scholars in the Messianic movement. Click to download my initial response in a paper entitled "Shifting Sand".

The Unity of the Torah

• Do you keep hearing that the Torah is for Jewish people and not for Gentiles?
• What about the teaching that the Moral laws of the Torah remain, but the Ceremonial and Civil parts have been abolished?
• Are some of God's family required to obey more of the Torah than others?

This short essay looks at the unity of the Torah and particularly how many times in the Tanach and Apostolic Scriptures, "commandment" or "word" is used in the singular to represent the whole Torah, emphasizing that the Torah is indivisible. Given this fact, the essay goes on to refute the teaching of some, that certain commandments of the Torah may be for people with Jewish lineage and not for non-Jews.

"'One Law Movements' – A Response to Resnik and Juster"

This paper is a response to an article written by Daniel Juster and Russ Resnik entitled "One Law Movements: A Challenge to the Messianic Jewish Community" in which the authors seek to establish their viewpoint that the Torah, in its fulness, is only for Jewish people.

"In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit: Matt 28:19 – A Later Addition to Matthew's Gospel?"

At the close of Matthew's Gospel, Yeshua instructs His disciples to make disciples among the nations, and to baptize them "in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." Some have suggested that this phrase sounds too much like later Christianity and therefore consider it to be a later addition to Matthew's Gospel. This paper shows the solid evidence for accepting the verse as authentic.

"Why Nehemia Gordon is Wrong about Matthew 23:3"

In several articles, as well as in his book, The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus, Nehemia Gordon teaches that the correct reading of Matthew 23:3 is found primarily in the reading of a single Hebrew manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew, the so-called Even Bohan or Shem Tov Matthew. The upshot of Gordon's assertions is that Yeshua rejected all rabbinic authority and was Himself a Karaite. This paper shows why such an assertion is wrong. Read Gordon's reponse, and my rejoinder to his response.

The Greater and Lesser Y-H-V-H Heresy

In attempting to explain the mystery of God, some have suggested that the Messiah is presented in the Scriptures as a "lesser" deity, the "Father" being the "greater" deity. This article confronts and exposes this heretical position.