Don Harris

[Rose of Shushan]

Hi Nurse welcome back to the forum.Yes you have posted here before once where you introduced yourself and spoke of "the hebrew roots deception".
Your post was confusing to me in that you seem to still seem to follow Hebrew roots and yet you seem to think that you don't and that Harris doesn't either.
A large part of hebrew roots stuff is to do with observing the festivals or feasts given to the Children of Israel under the Old Covenant.Since you wrote

Quote:Yes, he does observe Saturday Sabbath - and so do I. No, he does not observe Christmas and Easter - and neither do I now that I know how those celebrations came about. But I still believe that Jesus was born of a virgin right here on earth and that He was crucified, buried and did raise again on the third day. And I know that Don Harris believes this also. And yes, Don does celebrate the seven festivals/feast days/appointed times of our God. I don't understand how this can be wrong. To remember our God as many times as possible is a good thing, isn't it?

Hebrew roots is largely about Sabbath and observing the feasts.Or supposedly observing because today no-one can observe them in the way they were prescribed in the Torah of Moses.All of them involved animal sacrifices and or the involvement of the priests.
The only thing you haven't mentioned is the rest of the Torah pertaining to eating and living such as keeping niddah, kashrut etc.So I don't know if you also follow the dietary and life-style restrictions too.Even if you didn't, the rest of the practices you mentioned are enough to put you under the Hebrew Roots camp.
Please don't take that from me badly, it's just the way I see it,having been ensared into it all myself in the past.
As to celebrating all these things being "wrong" I'd say they are more inappropriate than wrong.At the same time it is hard for me to judge the situation with you since I don't know exactly where you are at in your thinking in relation to all these things.
Having come out of hebrew roots stuff myself I can understand that we can remember the OT feasts through the light of the New Covenant.
I also understand the need for ritual feasts,merrymaking etc and can see why some would choose the hebrew calendar to focus the festivities around.
What I do find kind of strange and a bit irking is that many of the feasts in the jewish calendar were not primarily for merrymaking and messianics seem to just use the jewish feasts for that purpose.Or the habit of turning a jewish holiday like Purim which celebrates a mass killing into a merrymaking occasion.What happened to turn the other cheek etc?
I can also understand that believers from a jewish background would still "celebrate" jewish holidays in their own way but not for christians to adopt them without really thinking through what it is they're actually doing and if it glorifies Christ.