Gimme that Old Time Relationship

With the Eternal Son, Jesus of Nazareth the Christ, While Looking Under Every Rock …

Lamin Sanneh (1942– 2019): Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale University

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Framing the ‘Gospel’ - Jesus’ Yoke

Humanity: Revelation & Righteousness

The Diagrams Above: a Biblical Categorization through Judaism
The Nature of Antisemitism: Not Lineage, but the Name.
The Mamzer
Part One - What about the Non-religious Chochmei Umot HaOlam?
Part Two - What About Those Who Never Heard?
The Enigma of Yeshu in Rabbinic Literature: A Distinct Figure NOT Jesus of Nazareth
The Split: 70-1300 CE (Part 1)
Forgotton Jewish Voices about Christianity (Part 2)
The New Testament’s Authority within a Jewish Covenantal Framework (Part 3)
The False Yeshu of the Talmud: a Twisted Tale to Confront the Partial Hardening (Part 4)

Preamble & Definitions

WHY this site?
What Is the Gospel? Or why Christ is the Answer…
Messiology and George Verwer
The Covenant Is a Wound
The LXX and Masoretic Text: The Veiled Messiah and the Hidden Torah
The God of Abraham, Not Aristotle
Esau, Edom, and the New Testament
The Messiah at the Gates of Rome
What is a Hebrew?
Messianic Jews & Hebrew Rooters?
Jesus Spiritual Genealogy: Our Need and Correction
Israel is a Relgious Destination NOT a Nation State
Who Is Israel? The Lost Sheep, the Judeans, and the Commonwealth of G-d
From Derekh Eretz (The Way of the Land) to Universal Law
Orthodoxy? Heretical Movements and the Jewish Influence
Christendom, No! Christianity? The Christian Faith, Yes.
Martyr’s Mirror & The Trail of Blood: ‘Follow the Money’
Why I Am Not a ‘Pan-Millennialist’
What Is a Mystic?
The Church and Supersessionism
Who are the Guardians of Orthodoxy?
Covenantal Realism: A Theological Method

Torat Edom (The Teaching or Mirror of Esau)

Torat Edom: The Otherside of the Covenant
Job:The Edomite Sage?
Christianity as Edomite Error?
Edom and Saducces
Torat Edom vs. Torahism: Why Yeshua Doesn’t Take Us Back to Sinai
Edom as Rome?
Edom as Gog?
Edom & the IDF?
Christian Zionism as Edomite Distortion
The Nail of Esau

Eschatology

What is the Rapture?
The Temple Is Us: How the Antichrist Deception Has Already Arrived
End Time Passages That Fuel an Industry
The Term “Flat Eschatology”
Acts 1–2 and Realized Eschatology vs. “Flat” Eschatology
Who is Gog from Magog?
Preterism and Judaism
Rethinking Gog and Magog
The term Antichrist (ἀντίχριστος)
Nero as 666 or Yeshu Notzri?
The Book of Daniel: Escaping the Prophecy Traps
Gog rages on! The Post-Millennial Era?
The Fall of Gog and Babylon: The Dawn of the Messianic Age
The Millennium & Messianic Age Conflation
The Khazar Conspiracy and GOG! A PSYOP in the Information War
Ariel Cohen-Aloro, Pidyon HaBen, and the Antichrist Paradigm
Yimakh Zikhron U Shemo

Biblical Theology

The Seed of the Woman from Eden to the New Jerusalem
Manasseh, the 144,000, and the Fullness of the Gentiles (Part 1 of 2)
Dan, Edom, and the Mystery of Missing Tribes (part 2 of 2)
Dry Bones, Edom, and the Spirit of Zion
Hagar and the Samaritan Woman as Keys to Covenant Renewal

Alliance History & Theology

Alliance Missions
Premillenialism and The C&MA by Steve Irwin
A Sacred Reflection: Romanism and Alliance Theologians (AWF Theological Academic Paper 2020)
A.B. Simpson’s Narrative Theology: The Deep Church for the Old Faith? (AWF essay from Paper 2020)
The Alliance and Italy: Evangelism over Ecclesiology (AWF Theological Symposium 2023)
The Old Faith vs Romanism: Newman, Simpson, Nardi (RLSN 2024 presentation)
A.B. Simpson, Paul King, and Healing for the Nations
Alliance Word Fellowship Theology, History and Research
A.B. Simpson: A Judeo-Centric Eschatology?
Back to the Branches: Recovering the Early Alliance Movement that Bore Fruit
The Samaritan Woman’s Messiah and A.B. Simpson’s Savior & Coming King
The Gospel to the Jew or from the Jew? Revisiting a 1917 Alliance Vision
A Biblical and Historical Defense of Women in Ministry in the C&MA

Español - Spanish

El Cordero y el Perro
La Historia de la Redención y la Senda Olvidada de Edom
¿El último papa?
¡Dame Este Monte!
¿El Milenio o la Era Mesiánica?
Lo Suficientemente ‘Ingenuo’ para Creer

Christology

Theocentric Christology and the Incarnation
The Metaphysics of the Heavenly Flesh
Heavenly Flesh Christology: Biblical Exegesis
Heavenly Flesh Christology: The Chalcedonian Indictment
Remembering Nicaea
Sabellianism? Clarifying Heavenly Flesh Christology and Hebraic Trinitarianism
The One Like a Son of Man

The 2nd Temple Era

Israel & Judea: From David to the Maccabees as Theological Correction
New Perspectives on Paul? Ask a Pharisee
A New Perspectives on Paul Primer
Israel defined in the Second Temple Period
The Scarlet Thread and the Temple’s Destruction
The Historical Layers of Notzrim and Netzarim:
Diaspora Jews in the Roman Empire
The Gospel of John, Jewish Identity, and Roman Rule
The Enochian Watchers as a Conflation with the Notzrim (Watchmen)
Samaritan Eschatology: A Mosaic Restorer, Not a Davidic King

Judaism Misread and Ascertained

Defending the Talmud
Is Jesus of Nazareth found in the Talmud?
Misinformation and Fear about the Noahide Laws
Paul and The Works of the Law
Pardes: A Rich Orchard or Some Bad Fruit?
The Conflation of Kabbalah and Mysticism
Zoharism and the Sacred Seed
The Lost Jesus of Judaism
Michael Heiser (1963 -2023)
Is Jesus in the Talmud? Peter Schäfer and the Limits of Critical Distance
Walter Brueggemann (1933–2025)
Judaism and Revelation
The Question of Israel in Early Rabbinical Judaism

Reformed Covenant Theologies

The Sons of Seth
Theonomy, Nations and the Law
Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987): The Covenant of Thought
After Sproul, Van Til, and Schaeffer
Esau have I Hated and Calvin
Recovering the Forgotten Rival: A Response to Paul Martin Henebury and the Covenant Debate
Proclamation Theology

Reforming Martin Luther

Where Luther Got the Hiddenness of God
Semper Reformanda: Recovering the Jewish Light of Nicaea
From Nicaea to the Marian City

Medievals & Modernity

Before Virtue: it’s just a story - Murdoch, Hauerwas and Macintyre
Before the Secular Self: Charles Taylor and Language
Before Bliss: Thomas Aquinas’ Imperfect Happiness
Meister Eckhart and the Reformation (RSLN research 2016 --17)
Out of the Dark Ages? Participative Metaphysics behind Nature and Grace (RSLN 2018 presentation)
Meister Eckhart: Could God Create a Better World? In honor of Walter Senner OP 1948-2020
Thesis: Meister Eckhart Parisian Question IX
Modernity’s Hegemony and the Evangelical Reckoning
Micah 4 : The Post-Industrial Control Grid and the Unveiling of the Messianic Age
Beyond the Narrative Turn & The Collapse of Postfoundational Theologies
Beyond the Arena: Toward a Biblical Way of Witness in the Age of Combative Apologetics

Gnosticism

The Greek Material-Spiritual Dichotomy, and Jewish Cosmology
The Term “Gnostic” and the Conflation of the Notzrim
The False Light of the Elohim: A Theological Critique of Raëlianism
Aliens, Angels, and the Ancient Near East: Why Paul Wallis Gets It Wrong (But Why His Questions Still Matter)
Adam, Not Aliens: Reclaiming Genesis from the Alt-Right Gnostics

Islam

The Sabians
Islam the Rest of the Story
What is the Quran?
Islam & The Temple Mount

Hardening seeking Fullness

Divine Unveiling - Isaiah 63 & Talmudic gloss
Collective Hardening: Exodus, Covenant, and the Education of Nations

Ecclesiology

The True Temple
Havdalah, Passover, and the Christian Weekly Renewal
The Liturgical Calendar, Passover, and Christian Worship
John Williamson Nevin (1803–1886)
The Sabbath
The Myth of Apostolic Succession
The Shadow and the Body: Sabbath in the Age to Come - Colossians 2:16-17 & Isaiah 66
Judaism for Ecclesiology?

Global Relations & Missiology

Pikuach Nefesh (To save a life) & Christian World Missions
Religion & International Relations Theory
The Globalization of the Christian Nation
Walter Kaiser’s Portrayal of Israel: Ethnicity, Mission, and the Nations
The Apostle Paul and Jewish Continuity in Italy To Rabbi Benamozegh

Bringing Back the King!

From Nicaea to the Marian City
Semper Reformanda: Recovering the Jewish Light of Nicaea
Reconciling the Reformed & The New Perspectives on Paul

Reasoning Together

Why I watch MythVision?
The Zeitgeist Fallacy and the Messianic Mission Across Ages
Joel Richardson: A Well-Meaning But Flawed Approach to Islam and Eschatology
Travis Snow: The Need for Maturity in Eschatology and Theology
René Girard (1923-2015)
Beyond the Arena: Toward a Biblical Way of Witness in the Age of Combative Apologetics
Beyond the Narrative Turn & The Collapse of Postfoundational Theologies
Adam, Not Aliens: Reclaiming Genesis from the Alt-Right Gnostics
Bitcoin as Parable of the Logos: An Analogical Reading with Aquinas
Three Paths to Salvation: Why Boccaccini’s Matrix Helps—But His Title Misleads
Are you a Full Preterist? The ‘Talmudic Jesus’, the Paul of NPP and Albert Schweitzer
On the Divinity of Jesus and the Nature of Trinitarian Language

The Trail of Blood

The “Trail of Blood” is a concept within Landmark Baptist theology, asserting that true Baptist type churches have existed continuously since the time of Christ, maintaining independence from both the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant denominations. This perspective is rooted in the belief that an unbroken lineage of Bible-believing, autonomous churches has endured persecution throughout history. This perspective emphasizes the importance of continuity and doctrinal distinctiveness among historical independent church movements that may or may not have functioned close to practicing Jews, but were more aligned to frame their faith by a simple reading of the Bible and the Revelation of Mount Sinai. While this theory is widely criticized, I find value in recognizing groups that were often silenced and labeled by their persecutors rather than being able to define themselves, thus the chart above clearly identifies and links such groups together. Where did this impulse originate? That said, certain core beliefs resonate with free churches and simple Bible Believers: • Local church autonomy • Believer’s baptism by immersion • Rejection of national religion and ecumenical ties over revelation and mission, yet open to evangelical and missionary alliances • An observant identity focused on the Great Commission and also resistence to economic coercion!

My Substack Favorite Jams

Dylan, Hendrix, U2 - All Along the Watchtower
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box
Yes - Prologue: A Soundtrack to the ‘Heavenly’ Jerusalem
Yes - Siberian Khatru (1)
We’ve All Been Played
Arcade Fire - Everything NOW
Yes - Long Distance Runaround (2)
The Rolling Stones - Can you Hear Me Knocking?
First Aid Kit- My Silver Lining
The War on Drugs - Pain
Gillian Welch - By the Mark

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