Faq

Everything you need to know.

June 20, 2026
Objections & Responses
Did Jesus start a new religion called Christianity?

No. Yeshua and the apostles lived as Torah-keeping Jews inside one unbroken story. Christianity as an institution came later; the faith itself came straight from the text.

June 20, 2026
Objections & Responses
Did the Church replace Israel?

No. Sha'ul says God has not rejected His people and the gifts and calling are irrevocable (Romans 11). Replacement theology is an error with a catastrophic history.

June 20, 2026
Objections & Responses
Doesn't grace replace the Law?

No. Grace and Torah are covenant partners, not opponents. Chesed sustains the relationship; the Torah is how you live inside it. The law-versus-grace split is a later Western frame the Hebrew text never makes.

June 20, 2026
Community & Practical
Do I need to attend a church or institution?

You answer to HaShem directly; no structure mediates that for you. Community matters, but the account is yours, and an institution is not the same thing as the body.

June 20, 2026
Getting Started
Do I need to know Hebrew to read this?

No. Every Hebrew or Greek term comes with transliteration and plain meaning, and the key ones link to a keyword page that explains them. You bring willingness; the work is shown.

June 20, 2026
Community & Practical
How should I study the Bible?

Like a Berean: take it to the text yourself, check every teacher against Scripture, and start from the original language and context rather than someone else's conclusion.

June 20, 2026
Theology & Doctrine
If salvation isn't a legal transaction, what is it?

Re-creation and covenant restoration. Genesis 2:7 is the prototype: dust without breath is dead; the breath of HaShem makes it alive. Salvation restores the relationship, not just a verdict.

June 20, 2026
Objections & Responses
Isn't teaching Torah just "Judaizing" or a different gospel?

No. The deceivers Sha'ul warned Titus about were teaching man-made commands for profit, the fence, not the Torah. Yeshua defended HaShem's command against the traditions of men.

June 20, 2026
Objections & Responses
Is penal substitution the gospel?

It is one frame among several, and a late Western one. The Hebrew picture of atonement is covenantal and relational, not a single legal transaction.

June 20, 2026
Objections & Responses
Is the Torah abolished, or still for believers today?

Not abolished. Yeshua said He came not to abolish the Torah but to fill it full, and the renewed covenant writes it on the heart rather than erasing it.

June 20, 2026
Hebraic Method
What does "Hebraic-first" actually mean?

Read every text in its original language, to its original audience, in its original context, before any later framework. The Tanakh speaks first; Greek and Western categories come after.

June 20, 2026
Hebraic Method
What is a Karaite?

A Jew who answers to the written Tanakh as the authority, not to rabbinic oral tradition added on top. The early counsel: search Scripture well and do not rely on any teacher.

June 20, 2026
Hebraic Method
What is the Tanakh?

The Hebrew Scriptures as one whole, an acronym for Torah, Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). What the Christian tradition calls the Old Testament, read in its own order.

June 20, 2026
Getting Started
Where do I start?

Start with the pieces that reframe the whole picture: the one-story arc of Scripture and what Hebraic-first reading means. Links below.

June 20, 2026
Getting Started
Who is the Scholar's Table for?

Anyone willing to do the work, Jew or Gentile, scholar or beginner, who wants to read Scripture in its original languages and let it reshape what they thought they knew.

June 20, 2026
Theology & Doctrine
Who or what is the Ruach HaKodesh?

HaShem's own breath and presence, ruach meaning wind, breath, and spirit at once. Not a separate person pictured as a second "He," but HaShem's own life moving in and on His people.

June 20, 2026
Hebraic Method
Why do you say Yeshua instead of Jesus?

Yeshua is His actual Hebrew name, "HaShem saves." "Jesus" is a faithful English rendering of the Latin of the Greek, three layers removed; Yeshua keeps the meaning audible.