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Hebraic Perspectives

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Hebraic Perspectives

3 weeks ago

Hebraic Perspectives
Shalom everyone. I wanted to give a small update on myself. As I have been preparing things "behind the scenes", I've been led to things that I believe are no coincidence. I have been studying and searching because I want to bring something very important that I see the world needs desperately. Allow me to explain...I have spoken in previous posts about apologetics and that I hope to defeat atheism entirely. That still remains. But as I look deeper and wider into the world and listen to what people say they believe in, I see there is a need for REAL answers that people are searching for. They are out there, but as I listen to certain voices out there (whom I will not name), I can't help but see there are answers that are lacking in scope, have too much emotion behind them, and often times come from a place of scripted responses. I don't want that to be the case.The truth is the truth. In a court of law, whatever is true is what should hold up because it is true. However, there is also the need to present the reason behind the truth. 2+2=4, here's why... I want this ministry to be something more than just being a ministry for ministry sake. I don't just want to minister to already believing individuals, I want to be able to equip people with knowledge and tools to help when speaking with atheists and agnostics, pagans and cultists, and believers who still lack the answers they are seeking. But that's going to take time. In full transparency, I will be entering my 40's soon. I want my 40's to be focused on this mission. Why? Here's why...This world is lost and dying. Things are royally messed up here. If you follow the news at all along with the conspiracy theorists and commentators out there, it's ultimately a show of the blind leading the blind. We need the light, and while Yeshua hasn't come yet to set things straight, Scripture teaches us that WE are his ambassadors on earth. That means, the light inside of him is inside of us and we are to let that light shine like a city on a hill. So I have to ask myself, is that light shining in my life? I take stock of my ministry and find it isn't shining. In fact, it might actually be hidden under a basket called "the internet". Sure, people who seek will find, but I believe the light should be bright enough to see without having to look hard for it. So, I need to brighten my light, and that means becoming a better believer and more knowledgeable than I've ever been.So, this time without posts on this page, for now, is me allowing the Almighty to work on me. I need Him to sharpen me and mold me into what He wants me to be; not what I want me to be. "Hebraic Perspectives" may eventually be molded into something else eventually unless I am led to keep it as it is. I don't currently know. But I do know for certain that I want to serve the Almighty and spread the Truth of His Word to as many people as I can, and that means I need to let go of me and my wants. So please, say a prayer for me. It's time for me to become what He has planned for me rather than what I THINK He has planned for me. Those of you sticking around and being patient with me - thank you. I know this page is not famous or popular, which is fine, but I am not ignorant to the fact that there are hundreds of eyes watching (hopefully cheering on the mission). Anyways, that's enough for now. Thanks again and my Yah pour into you all His love, mercy, grace, and truth.Shalom. ... See MoreSee Less
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Hebraic Perspectives

2 months ago

Hebraic Perspectives
PROVING GOD, THE BIBLE, AND MESSIAH TRUEI have been challenged in a rather profound way to refine my ministry. I’ll explain more in a moment. First, I would like to share a quote:“The Population Reverence Bureau estimates that the number of people who’ve ever lived on this planet is about 105 billion people. Only 2% of them were born prior to the advent of Christ. Eric Kreps of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research says, ‘God‘s timing couldn’t have been more perfect. Christ showed up just before the exponential explosion in the world‘s population.’ The Bible says in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son, and when Christ came, the nation of Israel had been prepared, the Roman peace dominated the Mediterranean world; it was an age of literacy and learning. The stage was set for the advent of God’s Son into the world, and I think in God‘s providential plan for human history, we see the wisdom of God in orchestrating the development of human life, and then in bringing Christ into the world in the fullness of time. - Dr. William Lane CraigWhen I was a much younger man (arguably, just a boy), I had a crisis of faith. I was very depressed and was enticed into desiring many things that secularism had to offer over that of what God and the Bible did. I remember sitting in my car one night screaming at God to prove Himself real, and if He were real, to answer where He was in regards to my life. Some time later, I was introduced to the world of Christian Apologetics. My initial introduction had come in the form of a formal debate between Dr. Frank Turek and Materialist Christopher Hitchens. Dr. Turek dominated the stage. I had never heard or seen such an incredible form of articulation for the existence of God without even using the Bible. I was so enamored by this that I purchased and read his book “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist”. Then I bought another book, and another, and so forth. In short, I became well learned in many of the arguments you would find in C.A. (Christian Apologetics). But as time went on, I found my way into the Hebrew faith, as in the relevance of Torah, Israel, etc., and became less involved in C.A..Fast forward to today, a few decades later, and I have circled back to it. As I’ve stated before on this page, I am working on my website to provide an archive of useful tools and teachings to help a believer to see the importance of Torah in our lives today. At first, as I’ve already typed up some points, I made a point of saying I wouldn’t focus on the subjects pertaining to arguments for a Creator and such to which I now will be retracting. So it comes down now to the reason I’m sharing this current post. I have a life currently surrounded by people I care about deeply within a world full of vile acts of anger, hatred, impatience, selfishness, and the like. The Biblical illiteracy I’ve seen from otherwise intelligent people has become of great concern, as well as the fact that I’m watching the generation (or generations) coming up after my own accepting some of the most egregious points of view; anything from perversions as the standard norm to adopting world views and ideologies they haven’t actually given careful or intentional thought to. In short – no one thinks any more, and Scripture warned us of such a time.If you’ve read this far, thank you, but I would only ask you indulge me a little more.Scripture tells us in no uncertain terms, “..that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!”(2 Timothy 3)I have seen this in more places than I care to fathom, and some much closer to home than I like to admit. It’s the “closer to home” part that challenges me. I live in a community where I see some of the best of people, but also the very worst. The question then haunts me, “What am I doing about it?”You might argue that I’m not the savior of the world, and you would be correct. However, I wholly believe, as the quote has been stated, that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Scripture records that our commission is to go into all the world and preach the gospel, making disciples, and baptizing (Matt. 28, Mark 16). As such, I absolutely must step up and do better. I will not stand before the Throne on that Day knowing I could have done more. I must fight for the ones I love. The world would say I’m shoving religion down their throats, or being a bigot, or any number of things in order to claim some semblance of a moral high ground; but the truth be told, if I believe in God, in the Bible, and I believe in the Messiah (Yeshua), then I am obligated to do what is right by Their standards rather than the standards invented by the world. Which brings me to my final point. For my ministry – Hebraic Perspectives – I find now that the best path forward is a simple equation: 1. God exists, and there are any number of methods or arguments that we could use to come to this conclusion. 2. The Bible is verifiably true, and there are any number of methods, facts, tests, and recordings to prove this to be true.3. Yeshua/Jesus is the Messiah of God, and His life, ministry, death, and resurrection are all evidence enough to prove the first two points, or at least to act as a starting point to challenge the ideas of the world whether they are atheism, paganism, agnosticism, or anything else.Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2, “...it was not with surpassing eloquence or wisdom that I came announcing to you the previously concealed truth about God; for I had decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Yeshua the Messiah.” I believe the historical records of Yeshua and the miracles surrounding Him and His ministry serve as evidence enough that anyone with a rational mind should be able to conclude that there is something – a profound something – that demands the atheistic or agnostic mind to concede that it is possibly incorrect. Scripture also details that God’s Law is written on the hearts of those who accept the inevitable conclusion of who God is (essentially, that morality is inherent and not invented), and that the proof of creation points to God is rather evident (Romans 1 & 2). Only a fool would express that God doesn’t exist (Psalm 14), and I have observed this foolishness both firsthand as well as socially as I’ve watched so-called “atheists” jump through flaming hoops and twisting themselves into rather uncomfortable knots just to prove that they have authentic reason to deny the existence of God when their so-called “reason” is anything but.And so, in closing, I want to focus on a few things. I will go after atheism with the intention of eradicating it completely. Atheism, as a result of such a mission statement, will become nothing more that a person willfully ignorant of reality.I will also work towards solidifying that the Bible is in fact Historical and Instructional and not just the writings of human men who just so happened to all agree with one another using the ignorance of their peers as a form of control (though none within the stories every actually benefited from such a form of supposed control). We can know the Bible is true without even using the Bible, but going straight to the Bible is the most expedient path towards the life best lived.Lastly, Yeshua is the proof of both God’s existence and the validity of the Bible. If a man claimed to be God’s Son, performed miracles (by definition, something that negates the laws of nature), predicted His own future death and resurrection, was then killed and resurrected in the manner He described (albeit poetically), and was witnessed by literal hundreds of people at that time who many were still alive at the time of the writings of the Gospels and later writings of the Apostles, then it is more than plausible (arguably, undeniable) that Yeshua is exactly who He claimed to be and that what He claimed to be true (God and His Word) is in fact true. Therefore, you now know my future intention concerning Hebraic Perspectives. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

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Quick update:I’m still preparing some studies. I’m planning on releasing them on the website, so they will appear as links rather than just images with text on this page. With that said, aside from the “Torah Today” series, I’ve been leaning more into the Moral Argument. In short, it’s one of the greatest arguments in favor of proving God’s existence I’ve ever run across. What’s so beautiful to me about it is it shows how goodness is beyond the human will and must ultimately come from moral law-giver - God Almighty. And to know beyond a shadow of a doubt whether that’s true or not, you must look at the death and resurrection of Messiah. Anyways, more content is coming and hopefully they will serve as tools and information for aiding in daily life AND ministering to people in need of a savior. Say a prayer for me - this information needs to be in line with God’s will and not my own. ... See MoreSee Less

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