Rl Solberg Quotes

​As Torah-observant Christianity has grown, it has been forced by Scripture to normalize on several important issues, salvation being primary. Only a handful of Torahists openly continue to teach that keeping Torah is a matter of salvation. Most categorize it as a matter of obedience, teaching that, once saved, keeping the Law is how we rightly live out our faith. At the same time, they believe keeping the Mosaic commands is required of all Christ-followers, and those who do not “keep Torah” are openly living in sin.

Rather Torahism is a movement occurring solely among Gentile Christians. In fact, every Torah-keeper I’ve come across has two things in common: they are Gentile (not of Jewish ethnicity) and they come from a Christian background. Torahists are Gentile Christians who believe mainstream Christianity wrongly left the Law of Moses behind when Yeshua arrived. As they see it, they are “correcting course” by returning to the keeping of the Law.

​One hundred percent of the Torahists I have read or engaged with are former Christians who walked away from the faith due to an incomplete and/or errant understanding of Christian theology.

There exists a set of perfect principles grounded in God that never change, and He has expressed these principles differently at different times in history. Every commandment given by God in every expression across time is grounded in one or more of His unchanging principles. And although Scripture reveals that God’s expressions have changed over time—and we will look at many examples of this in Part Two—the various expressions all reflect the immutable heart of God and are therefore more alike than different.

By emphasizing a works-based, law-focused lifestyle, Hebrew Roots’ teachings deemphasize the “abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness” (Rom 5:17) that is ours through Jesus. But the danger is even bigger that what it does to our focus. The core theology of Torahism contradicts and undermines the accomplishments of Jesus through His life, death, and resurrection