They believe that Christians have turned away from the true teachings of the bible. The culture and beliefs of Greek and Roman Philosophy have thrown the Christian church off track and they need to get back to the roots of the bible. In HRM (Hebrew Roots Movement) theology, the Old Testament takes priority over the New Testament, rather than interpreting the Old in light of the New. 

 

The Hebrew Roots Disaster - Todd Friel

Hebrew Roots Movement - Part 1 - Mike Winger 

Hebrew Roots Movement - Part 2 - Mike Winger

Hebrew Roots Movement - Part 3 - Mike Winger

Hebrew Roots Movement - Part 4 - Mike Winger

What's Wrong With The Hebrew Roots Movement ? 

 

How do they drag the name of Christ through the mud?

HRM believe that Law trumps Grace. No one who is born of God practices sin (Torahlessness). An extreme view of this would hold that it is possible to be without sin. Jesus was the only Human without sin. 

 1 John 3:9

No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

 

A continual practice of not keeping the Sabbath and not keeping dietary restrictions is lawlessness and shows that one is not born again. Everyone who practices sin, practices lawlessness.

1 John 3:4

 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

 

However, The real danger is not for Christians but rather for those in the HRM who have fallen from grace. Seeking to be justified by the law, they have been severed from Christ. They are the modern day Judaizers trying to cast doubt and confusion among true believers.

Galations 5:4 

These are the modern day Judaizers trying to cast doubt and confusion among true believers.

 

Was there a change in the Law ?

For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.

Hebrews 7:12

For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.

 

Which is the better Covenant?

Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

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Hebrews 7:22

so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

 

Does the New Covenant make the Old Obsolete?

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear. It is no longer used. 

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Hebrews 8:13

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

 

Should we cling to the shadow or the substance?

Colossians 2:16-17 

Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

 

Morality and Dietary Laws

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By withdrawing from the Gentile believers to fellowship with the Judaizers who held a position he knew was wrong, Peter had  in appearance supported their doctrine and nullified Paul's divine teaching, especially the doctrine of salvation by grace a,one through faith alone. To keep the Israelites separate from their idolatrous neighbors, God set specific dietary restrictions regarding the consumption of unclean animals. With the coming of the New Convenant and the calling of the church, God ended the dietary restrictions [ 1 ] . 

 

Galations 2:11-14

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing  the party of the circumcision. The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? 

 

Acts 10:9-16

About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.” “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

 

Leviticus 11:25-26

Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. “‘Every animal that does not have a divided hoof or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them will be unclean.

 

Mark 7:14-23

Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”  After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.  “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.) He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

 

Since food is merely physical, no one who eats it will defile his heart or inner person, which is spiritual. Physical pollution, no matter how corrupt, cannot cause spiritual or moral pollution. Neither can external ceremonies and rituals cleanse  a person spiritually. By overturning the tradition of hand washing, Jesus in effect removed the restrictions regarding dietary laws. This comment by Mark Thus He declared all foods clean had the advantage of hindsight as he looked back on the event, and was no doubt influenced by Peter's own experience in Joppa (Acts 10:15)   [ 1 ] 

 

Cited Sources - John MacArthur Bible Commentary [ 1 ] , 

 

Collin Michael with One Reality Ministries strikes a similar tone. He deceptively twists the truth and ironically, he calls biblical teachings deceptive. 

Video - The 5 Great Deceptions In The Church - Colin Michael

Video - God Doesn’t Want You To Go To Church - Colin Michael

 

Point #1 We are born with the inability to choose good. We are born sinners

Genesis 8:21

Every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.

Psalm 51:5

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Romans 3:11-12

“There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good,

not even one.”

Romans 3:23

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

 

Point #2 We will always have a sin nature until the day we die

Romans 7:18

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

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Matthew 5:48

You are to be perfect, as your heavy Father is perfect.

Christ sets an unattainable standard for humanity. His point is that we can't be perfect. Christ met this standard on our behalf. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

 

Point #3) The blood of Christ covers our past, present and future sins

Romans 10:10-14

And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

 

Point #4) We are saved by Grace alone, through faith alone

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that is not of yourselves, it is a gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

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Romans 3:20

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

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James 2:24

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

James doesn't contradict Paul’s teaching that Abraham was justified by grace alone through faith alone. James quotes Genesis 15:6 which claims that God credited righteousness to Abraham on the basis of faith many years before the offering of Isaac; which was a demonstration of his faith and reality of his justification. This passage is often quoted by Roman Catholics to hold to their position of salvation by faith and works.

 

Point #5 Once saved, always saved

A human-centered faith leads to the idea that one can lose their salvation based on their performance. A God-centered faith affirms two facts: 1) nothing we did earned salvation, 2) nothing can be done to lose salvation.

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Romans 8:29-35

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

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Ephesians 1:4-9

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ.

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Ephesians 1:13-14

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

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Philippians 1:6

being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

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John 10:28-30

“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”