Is Torah Class part of the Hebrew Roots movement?
Hebrew Roots or Jewish Roots is a term that has been abused, misused, and not precisely defined. In one sense it merely means to acknowledge that the Christian faith sprung from the Hebrew faith, has a Jewish Messiah, and that our holy text (the bible) is a Hebrew document written entirely by Hebrews. In another sense Hebrew Roots indicates a love for (and spiritual connection with) Israel and the Jewish people, and an acknowledgement that Jesus did NOT create a new religion of, by, and for gentiles. Torah Class believes in these first two tenets. However, some other folks have taken a rather different view and tend to ask their gentile adherents to more or less “become Jews” often by observing many Orthodox Jewish Traditions, and also thinking that by becoming saved a gentile literally goes through a physical transformation of some kind and becomes a physical Jew or national Israelite. Torah Class does NOT accept this because it has no biblical basis.
