Experiments in living history: How Yeshua’s words might have got changed
Shalom everyone, Around Britain, there are recreations of villages from different time-periods in ancient British history. There is one famous one called Butser Farm, which began life as an Iron Age farm, recreating life from about 2,500 years ago. The aim of these...
What is a Massorite?
As for what a Massorite is, it would be too simplistic to say that we are just ‘Karaites who follow Yeshua as a prophet’, because it’s not as clear-cut as that, since we are not biblical literalists. A Karaite is very much ‘Bible alone’, and nothing more. Nothing else...
The REAL Messianic Prophecies (Full Version)
To read a condensed version of this article, click here. Shalom everyone, I have put together this article mostly as a reference article for enquirers. It focuses on defining our Massorite Talmidi views regarding the person of the messiah. As you know, our community...
The REAL Messianic Prophecies (short version)
To read the longer and more complete version of this article, click here. Shalom everyone, I have put together this article mostly as a reference article for enquirers. It focuses on defining our Massorite Talmidi views regarding the person of the messiah. As you...
Bigotry and Counter-Bigotry
Shalom everyone, Before I begin, first a little about my own ethnic background. I was born in Sri Lanka – the non-Asian side of my family have been there for about 500 years. In addition to my Jewish ancestors, I also have ancestors from various countries in South,...
The Earliest Unnamed Sects of the Congregation of the Way
Shalom everyone, Most of what I am about to discuss is admittedly based on my own hypotheses, my own musings. Having an amateur detective-like suspicion of plots, storylines and motives, I have looked at certain elements that are written in the NT, and which have been...
“If God existed, there would be no suffering; suffering exists, therefore there is no God“
(If you want the quick answer to this conundrum, please go to the final three paragraphs of this article. If you want an explanation of the answer, please read on) . I've asked ChatGPT an unsolvable question again, just to see what answer an impartial intelligence...
What was the original intent and meaning of Yom Shmini ha-Atzéret?
Shalom everyone, Yesterday at sunset began the day which rabbinic Judaism knows as ‘Simchat Torah‘ (‘Rejoicing of the Torah‘), but which the Torah itself refers to as Yom Shmini ha-Atzéret (Eighth Day of Closed Assembly) – you will soon find out that they are not...
The Difference between the Christian Gospel and the Yahwist Good News of God’s Kingdom for all the Nations
Introduction Quite a few ex-Christian teachers and theologians approach this question starting from the Christian Gospel and working backwards. However, that’s not how I am going to approach it. If we ever want to understand what ‘gospel’ / ‘good news’ means in its...
How not to get so anxious or struggle with the Bible (biblical interpretation)
For former religious fundamentalists, their greatest sticking point to having a closer relationship with God, is often the Bible itself. I had the same problem, even though I was never a fundamentalist. I had to completely change the way I saw the Bible, because it...