Christian Heretics and Orthodoxy

Heresy. What an intense word. It is heretical, from a Christian point of view, to question the concept of a “trinity.” This concept was created early on in the Christian faith to make it easier to understand the person of God, yet it did not make it into Christian doctrine until possibly 400-600 years after…

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Lent

As one might have noticed by reading my blog, I am by no means a fan of jumping on the bandwagon just for fun.  In fact, if people are jumping on such a wagon, it makes me question it even more so.  Call it skepticism if you will, I do.  I have the same degree of…

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Rosh Hashanah: acceptable paganism in Messianic Judaism

This holiday, named Rosh Hashanah, bothers me every year it rolls around.  A lot of truth with just a little paganism is not truth at all.  What does God honor when it isn’t pure? After service today I asked a friend “Why do you celebrate Rosh Hashanah?”.  His response was logical and acceptable.  His response was “Well,…

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Yom Teruah or Rosh Hashanah

This post isn’t going to have a lot of explanation of the holidays mentioned in the title.  Maybe in the future I will write about the spiritual significance of Rosh Hashanah (if any), but this post poses a question to ones who celebrate Rosh Hashanah. Why do you celebrate it? We, as believers, are called…

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