Noahides? What are they?

“What a farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat,” a phrase I've heard often in my life. This applies not only to food but also to many other areas. It is often the basis for many prejudices but at the same time—to be fair—it can also be a good defense in certain situations. When does it apply and when doesn't it? Read on...

The average casual visitor to our website may well raise their eyebrows. “What's that? Noahides?” Some will know what it means, especially the conscious visitor. It is what I noticed earlier when, as a Reformed/PKN member, I eventually moved towards Messianism via an evangelical church. There, you could also feel the judgment of traditional Christianity towards those somewhere in between Christians who leaned towards Judaism.

Those same Messianics, who sometimes already consider themselves Jewish but are still truly Christians, often feel treated that way by traditional Christianity, but those same Messianic Christians can also be harsh when people from their circle make the step toward true Judaism. I was regularly reviled by those same people. I had denied JC, some said.

To all those people who are part of certain mainstream faiths, particularly Christian ones, who are full of judgment toward other groups, small faith groups with parallels and certainly differences, I now ask the following: Go back to the time when your religion was slowly taking shape. Would those early believers recognize themselves in your churches today? Were they exactly like you are now, with all the dogma and rules of today, with the Trinity and Sunday and churches with organs or praise bands of today?

Let this sink in for a moment. Many of you are Protestants, and Protestants are, by definition, seekers of truth. This began with all kinds of details filled in by the only church that existed here before Protestantism, the Roman Catholic Church. Well, you could also say that Noahides and even those messiahs are seekers of truth.

The term “Noachides” is open to debate. I prefer to call myself a righteous person from among the nations or, even better, a follower of Torah and Judaism who is not halachically Jewish and has a strong desire to continue as a gioer (another discussion altogether). But this is absolutely not a sect. My fellow believers and I come from all kinds of backgrounds, but we share one core value, which is the Jewish source in which we find our beliefs.

Was JC not a Jew? And what do I think of JC now? As a person, I have no problem with him. There is plenty of historical evidence that someone existed at that time—with a Jewish name, not a Greek one, by the way—but his fan club morphed everything afterwards. It went through a kind of Greek/Roman Christian filter.

The ONE God, HaShem, was changed by that fan club into a trinity, and the day of rest, which had been the Sabbath since time immemorial, was moved by one day, and the pagan names of months and days + also days from midnight to midnight, nowhere to be found in the Bible or in the Tanakh, took the place of everything.

Back to the beginning, “what the farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat.” You can stay here and kick against everything you find here, even if you yourself are a Messianic Jew and receive similar treatment from mainstream Christianity. It's easier if you're Catholic or Protestant or Reformed. Then you can easily judge and condemn Noahism as a sect.

But would you also call Judaism a cult? Perhaps you would reject it just like Islam, or perhaps as a Christian, Jew, or Muslim you would reject all other religions, which is your right. But Noahides are seekers of truth with very good arguments and a study of what God says and teaches. Nothing less than you and perhaps... Perhaps closer to the source and detached from rules and dogma devised later.

Take off your glasses of prejudice, become aware of these prejudices. Go searching and discover that “we” are not so crazy.

“Ein od milwado” -> look it up! ;)