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I’d like to take this opportunity to make my dear readers aware of some important facts<\/strong> about our Christian brothers and sister.<\/p>\n

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First, let me say that I’m not angry at Christians, I don’t hate them, and I try not to speak disparagingly of them. There for the grace of YHVH go I. Until YHVH opens their eyes to the truth of the rest of Torah, they will remain where they are, even as most people reading this blog post\u00a0once were smugly blind in the Christian church to the deeper truths of the Torah until YHVH opened their eyes. So let’s have mercy on them! Please!!!<\/p>\n

Next, the ones I have a real problem with in the Christian church are the hireling leaders. They should know better, since they purport to be Bible experts. However, many of them are trapped in a harlot, secular humanistic religious system that has elevated the mind of man over that of the Creator. This is a classical definition of secular humanism. Go read Francis Schaefer. He’ll confirm this. Better yet, go read the Humanist Manifesto I and II and hear it from the humanists’\u00a0own mouths.<\/p>\n

Finally, I want to make this point and pound it home. I am very adamant about what I’m about to say! True, according to the Barna Research Group, only 10 percent of Christians in America meet the biblical criteria for being born again. I have the published book with the facts and figures, and I agree with them.<\/p>\n

Next, of that 10 percent, are you aware of the fact that a good born again Christian, contrary to the misinformed, and might I say, bigoted opinions of many Torah-observant Messianics, will be keeping about 25 percent of the Torah’s 613 commandments? Are you also aware of the fact that the best Torah-observant Messianic will be able to keep only about 66 percent of the Torah’s 613 commandments, since the rest of them pertained to the Levites, sacrificial system and Tabernacle service, which is no longer happening. Therefore we can’t do them. In addition, if you’re a man, you can’t keep those Torah
\ncommands that pertain to a woman, and vice versa. Additionally, many others you can’t do if you’re not a farmer. Many commands we can’t do, since we don’t have our own country with a judicial and penal system. Others only apply if you’re in the land of Israel and so on. All this is to say that we do the best that we can in our time to keep the Torah, but no one can keep it completely.<\/p>\n

Now let’s take the 25 percent and 66 percent idea to the next level. If you remove all the Torah commands that were fulfilled (or brought to the higher level) in Yeshua as per the Epistle to the Hebrews and skew the stats so that the very best Messianic is now keeping 100 percent of the Torah that’s possible for us to keep today, what does that do for that good Bible-believing Christian who is keeping 25 percent of the Torah? It means that they’re keeping about two-thirds of the Torah that’s possible to keep nowadays. Imagine that! Do these facts change your view of those “knuckle-dragging, whoremongering, sun-worshipping, devil-worshipping” Christians that too many of us love to boost our sagging egos by bashing all too often? I hope so!<\/p>\n

How do I know these stats are correct? Well, one day a few years ago I got tired of Christian bashing in the Hebrew Roots Movement because first, I sensed it was misguided, and second, I was concerned it was coming out of spirit of pride in too many cases. Third, Christian-bashing isn’t exactly the best tactic to use to woo the lost sheep of Israel back to their pro-Torah Hebrew roots now is it? So I sat down with a list of all 613 Torah commandments and I went through each one and did the statistical analysis. It took me a while, but that’s how I came up with the numbers. Others have done the same analysis and come up with almost identical numbers. I challenge you. Do it yourself and prove me wrong!<\/p>\n

What it all boils down to is this: A solid, Bible-believing and obedient Christian (I realize this is only a small minority \u2014 according to Barna Research Group, at least) actually follows much of the Torah even though they are taught by their false teacher leaders to believe it was abrogated. For example, just look at the ten commandments. They pretty much keep them all except the fourth one (the Sabbath).<\/p>\n

So this brings me to my final point. When all is said and done, Christians mostly struggle with the Sabbath, the biblical feasts and the dietary laws. The rest of the them, they more or less follow with a number of exceptions (e.g., wearing beards and tzitzits, putting up mezuzahs, etc., etc.)<\/p>\n

So let’s all have a little more grace for our Christian brothers and sisters. I think a long time ago that a very wise man said in the Book of Proverbs that it’s easier to catch flies with honey than vinegar. Please take this to heart.<\/p>\n

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