The thing about a lot of modern Rabbinic-Judaism type Christians is they get hung up on things which God doesn't insist on. Then they separate themselves from other Christians over it.
Like the issue of Jesus' Name. I called on the Name of Jesus, in English - and it worked - I got saved! God didn't seem to mind that I didn't know His Name in Hebrew at the time.
I've seen people say His Name in Japanese, Filipino, Tok Pisin and numerous other languages - and God responds!
The Apostles even wrote letters to the churches using His Name in Greek, not Hebrew. Most of the New Testament wasn't written in Hebrew.
You don't have to say His Name in Hebrew. He doesn't mind. It doesn't give you any spiritual advantages.
The funny thing is, these people who insist on using His Name in Hebrew, contradict themselves by using non-Biblical names for other things.
Like the Feasts. The term Rosh Hashanah for example isn't in the Hebrew Bible. It was most likely adopted from Babylon. The Tenakh called it the Feast of Trumpets. If you really want to be Biblical, why use the Babylonian term?
Messianic-Christians get worked-up about the Hebrew calendar. But the calendar of Rabbinic Judaism which many of these Christians are now promoting, actually uses what most likely were Babylonian names for the months. The Tenakh doesn't give names for some of the months. They are most likely actually Babylonian names. Yet many Messianic Christians feel all holier-than-thou when they use them, thinking they're in touch with their Jewish roots, not knowing they are Babylonian names for the months, not God's names for the months.
That is an issue which divides Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism (and most modern so-called Jewish-roots Christians) use the Babylonian terms and calendar names, but Karaite Judaism tries to stick to the names and instructions used in the Tenakh.
Messianic-Christians also seem confused about new year. Judaism has between two to four different times of the year for new year.
Truth is, it really doesn't matter so much to God. God is happy to work with us no matter which date we regard as the new year.
God does also have times and seasons of His own. But what does He expect us to do at those times? Whatever He likes us to do at those times, He never expects us to keep the Old Covenant Jewish Feasts at any of those times. That's for sure.
Like the issue of Jesus' Name. I called on the Name of Jesus, in English - and it worked - I got saved! God didn't seem to mind that I didn't know His Name in Hebrew at the time.
I've seen people say His Name in Japanese, Filipino, Tok Pisin and numerous other languages - and God responds!
The Apostles even wrote letters to the churches using His Name in Greek, not Hebrew. Most of the New Testament wasn't written in Hebrew.
You don't have to say His Name in Hebrew. He doesn't mind. It doesn't give you any spiritual advantages.
The funny thing is, these people who insist on using His Name in Hebrew, contradict themselves by using non-Biblical names for other things.
Like the Feasts. The term Rosh Hashanah for example isn't in the Hebrew Bible. It was most likely adopted from Babylon. The Tenakh called it the Feast of Trumpets. If you really want to be Biblical, why use the Babylonian term?
Messianic-Christians get worked-up about the Hebrew calendar. But the calendar of Rabbinic Judaism which many of these Christians are now promoting, actually uses what most likely were Babylonian names for the months. The Tenakh doesn't give names for some of the months. They are most likely actually Babylonian names. Yet many Messianic Christians feel all holier-than-thou when they use them, thinking they're in touch with their Jewish roots, not knowing they are Babylonian names for the months, not God's names for the months.
That is an issue which divides Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism (and most modern so-called Jewish-roots Christians) use the Babylonian terms and calendar names, but Karaite Judaism tries to stick to the names and instructions used in the Tenakh.
Messianic-Christians also seem confused about new year. Judaism has between two to four different times of the year for new year.
Truth is, it really doesn't matter so much to God. God is happy to work with us no matter which date we regard as the new year.
God does also have times and seasons of His own. But what does He expect us to do at those times? Whatever He likes us to do at those times, He never expects us to keep the Old Covenant Jewish Feasts at any of those times. That's for sure.
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