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FAQ

Frequently Asked – And Not So Frequently Asked – Questions

Where are you located? I’d like to meet for fellowship.

Actually, we are not a church or a fellowship. We seek to join people together in committing to restore the Bride of Messiah and to restore holiness. It is a purpose which knows no borders or region. In this we can work together no matter where we are and will keep in contact with you and put you in contact with other members.

God willing, if enough people are inspired work for restoration in one area, we desire to establish self-sustaining communities with their own land, property and businesses. These communities could be anywhere.

If you would like to meet for fellowship though, we’d love to have you. For the time being we are in the Philadelphia area but may have to move. Feel free to contact us if you’d like to meet personally. kodeshkallah@yahoo.com

Are you one of those crazy Messianics?

This is kind of a necessary question. There are a lot of dodgy Messianic and Hebrew doctrines going around. In fact, I am used to being asked a few Jewish-related questions when I first meet another believer.

So just to let you know, I respect the core doctrines of the faith, and renounce the oddball views and heresies that float through the movement. I do not believe that I or anyone else is under the Covenant of Moses, or that Gentiles are the lost ten tribes, or that Gentiles must all keep ritual Torah, or that my Jewish kin can all be saved under the Mosaic Covenant, nor do I have anything to do with Kabballah or the Sacred Name movement.

I keep Jewish days and traditions as best I can since I am Jewish and it is our calling. Those traditions are also full of spiritual meaning, can uplift the Savior and are a blessing to us. I believe Jews ought to live a uniquely Jewish life, though it is not a true mandate.

Do you want to cloister yourself away from the world?

Sadly, many people assume the moment you start speaking about a community, that you mean to separate yourself off from the world. It appears to be a knee-jerk reaction. You don’t have to say anything of the sort, and people will assume that’s what you mean anyway.

I do not promote nor have I ever promoted separating from the greater community so as to have minimal or no connection to it. In fact, there have been a variety of religious communities throughout the centuries, including monastics, which both sought to live in their own community and ALSO had regular interaction with the greater community. I believe in being a part of the great community, especially through evangelism and service of all kinds.

In fact I see forming a community, as well as potentially forming our own institutions, as a MUCH more outgoing practice than the alternative. This is firstly because living with a commitment to holiness would provide a better witness to who Mashiach is and what we become in Him. It is also more outgoing because it would encourage Christians to follow their faith and conscience in their jobs. This is something typically impossible in the secular world, where Christians regularly promote moral evil and live in near complete silence regarding their faith.

To give you a stark example, please tell me which one is more outgoing:

A Christian who works in a secular school and teaches children that evil is good and that godless naturalism is true and never shares the truths of the faith with them, OR a Christian who invites children of poor families into their community, to be homeschooled by our wives in Bible-based Christian education and also to see a good witness of a holy Christian home and community?

Which one is truly more of an outward witness?

By the way, I do not see that forming a community is any more in danger of “cloistering” than owning a home is, In fact countless Christians who own a home practically cloister themselves off from others. This is a tragedy. Our faith is by nature outgoing.

Are you ecumenical?

This word can be used to describe both good and bad things. Exactly how people of varying beliefs about Yeshua or from different religions interact is a very complex one. Let me say this to capture a few key points:

While I would certainly show friendship and kindness to neighbors who did not know Yeshua, I would naturally share the Gospel with them because without Yeshua they are lost.
I would enjoy the chance to have Buddhists, Hindus or Humanists as coworkers. Often, I like their company. I would also take that opportunity to tell them about our Maker, our fallen situation before Him and our need to believe on His Son.
I would not aim to share charity work or other ministries with those who are outside of the pale of central biblical beliefs, except in needed logistics behind the scenes. A part of charity work and similar projects is sharing the Gospel and revealing Yeshua. It is not merely helping people physically. There may be times in life where various partnerships are truly necessary, but I would never aim for that. Believers have done great aid work for years without ever linking up with Hindus, Muslims or others to accomplish it.
I believe in partial fellowship with other believers who have serious differences with us. For example, in the pro-life movement, I have no problem praying with Catholics, so long as it’s understood that I do not pray to human beings in heaven. When I have Charismatic friends over, I ask them to pray in actual languages, and not in any other way.
We should show kindness and help to our neighbor, no matter what religion they belong to. Our first responsibility in aid, however, is within our own community. We should be able to take care of ourselves.

Why are you so mean and unloving?

I do not believe I am mean and unloving. I do rebuke the Kahol (Church) for much of its bold, shameless disobedience. I call evil deeds evil, and evil teachings evil. If I did not love I would not take the time to do that. I would instead sit back, avoid risks and watch the utter corruption of the Kahol saying nothing. It is love which motivates me to take action. Moreover, the idea that strong rebuke is not loving would be refuted by more than a mere one or two examples from scripture. Yeshua, Sha’ul and Kefa (Peter) spoke out strongly against evil and heresy. So did the prophets of Tanach (Old Testament). Were they being unloving too?

I might add it has been truly crippling to the Kahol that it cannot hold standards, practice discipline or care a whit about good doctrine. This inability to be strong (what you call “unloving” here) has left the Bride of Messiah in a corrupt and unrecognizable state. We do not need to hear sweet words all the time. There are times we need rebuke. We do not need liberality all the time. We also need discipline, and to shoot for the mark. The desire for a constant stream of niceness has been a deadly cancer on us.

If you are sincerely upset about hearing a strong rebuke, please write me. But more than that, take those same critical energies, and use them to better your own walk in Messiah. Take that same desire for change, and bring it to your congregation, use it to better the walk in Yeshua and restore good doctrine and discipline. Because if you’re upset by hearing a few harsh words about backsliders, you should be exponentially more upset by the destruction of the Church by false teachers and disobedience. It should light a fire beneath you. You should be stirred by the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Ghost).

What do you believe?

You can see our group’s beliefs as well as my own broader beliefs at our Faith Statement. It includes the basic tenets necessary to join us formally, as well as a broader and more detailed view of my faith.

Why do you hate women?

To say that women ought to be in their rightful place according to God is not a form of hatred. It is a form of love. I promote the teachings the Word of God gives us regarding men and women. This naturally includes the submissive attitude that women are to have as well as their submissive position in the home and congregation. None of that is my opinion. It is the Word of God. Moreover, it is a great blessing to both men and women, since God’s way for us is beautiful and blessed. Women are not the same as men. They have their own role.

Are you a legalist?

The common use of this word today is an attack against people who believe we ought to actually try and live as the Word of God instructs. Of course we should, and it gets tiresome hearing people claim that God Almighty is a legalist. One can look at the words of Yeshua, Sha’ul (Paul), the apostles and the prophets and deem all of them legalistic by the modern standard. I believe we should try and live as the Lord teaches us, which means shooting for the mark.

There are other uses for the word “legalist” however, which I will answer. Some use it to describe the belief that one must keep a certain prescribed regimen of behavior to be saved. I do not believe this. However, I must add, if a believer is living shamelessly in sin, he should not presume that he is saved to begin with. He is showing the fruit of damnation.

Some would also use the word to describe the practice of calling what are obviously traditions of men the Word of God. While I believe it is important to have good traditions, and some rightfully come from men, they do not amount to the Word of God.

Are you a cult leader?

Like the term legalist, the term cult in contemporary times is just a ministry insult to deride people you don’t like. Moreover, since in recent times the same word has been used to describe manipulative, immoral, murderous psychopaths, I find it’s better not to call someone a cult unless you really mean it. I do not even call the Jehovah’s Witnesses a cult, although they are outside of the faith.

What I intend to do is join people together in making commitments to reform and holiness, and do it in an organized way. That’s what I say on my main page and I really can’t be more descriptive than that. Moreover, even for those who do not wish to work with me, I hope to inspire them and inform them in seeking change on their own.

We need to change the way we are living, and lead holy lives.

I notice you encourage people to live to high standards of holiness. Do you believe in “complete sanctification” (that the believer can become truly sinless in this life)?

No.

What is all this stuff about? I’m not even a Christian?

This stuff is my own attempt to inspire repentance among those who are disciples of Yeshua (Jesus). As you might know, even if you are not a believer, many Christians do not try to lead life according to their faith. Even if they do try, it is often in absence of certain principles they find unpopular or too hard. If you recognize that people ought to do what they sincerely believe is right, then certainly Christians ought to live according to their faith. It’s that simple. They are not.

However, it is not my intention to give teaching about salvation in Jesus on this forum. I do have a handful of links like that, and I do give one of my own Gospel presentations as part of a larger one in my video Only a Monster, but the primary purpose of this website is holiness and reform in the Church.

If you would like to hear about who Jesus is and why we need Him to deliver us from sin and death, provide us a new heart, and bring eternal life, please check out this, this and this.

You can also see an Orthodox presentation right here. I do not agree entirely with it because it leaves out the working of justice, but it beautifully captures the transformation of man from darkness to light, death to life.

Male and Female

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The word of Elohim clearly instructs us in several roles for man and women and this website strongly promotes them. God provides the leadership roles in the holy Body of Mashiach to men, including restricting women from having authority or teaching over men. Men are given the headship role in the home as well. Women are instructed to be workers in the home, and submissive. These are well known, and Kodesh Kallah seeks to promote them with joy, because they are holy and good and from our Father.

Yet it is curious, because sometimes I wonder if what is deeper than the specific roles themselves is the masculinity and femininity of man and woman. And interestingly, it is not just the roles which the modern world including professed Christians are rejecting; it is also the masculinity and femininity. Modern believers seem to be at war with their gender itself, not just with the word of Elohim.

For God’s word does give more gender distinctions beyond the roles, albeit without going into great detail. For example, it tells us a man and women should not wear clothing that pertains to the other (Deut 22:5). It also emphasizes certain characteristics of each; it tells men to act like men in having courage (1 Kings 2:2, 1 Cor 16:13); it emphasizes women’s submissive and caring qualities, instructing her to have a meekness in heart. The idealized woman of Proverbs 31 has as a core job caring for the poor. Modesty and discretion are also emphasized for women (1 Pet 3:3-4, 1 Tim 2:9, Proverbs 11:22).

Furthermore, mankind also has many good traditions which emphasize and encourage the same gender distinctions. We have a distinction in dress, even though it can vary somewhat. We have a distinction in labor, saving the heaviest and most dangerous labor for the man, moreover discouraging them from the most feminine pursuits. We have a distinction in toys for small children, even though there is some overlap. Man has naturally done these practices throughout the ages, and they seem perfectly in line with scriptural truth and nature, despite the fact that we ourselves are deciding where to draw exact lines.

Yet nearly this entire distinction between men and women, nearly the whole gender roles of scripture, are being rejected by the modern Kahol (Church). It is clearly not just the secular world which is gender bending. Truthfully that would be a joke to even suggest. For example, speaking of roles, the women’s role as worker at home is both ignored and even disrespected by the majority of western Christians. Women have given up their submissive role in the congregation as well, at the minimum by presuming to preach over men, and in some circles by holding leadership roles. Many in the Kahol still nominally upholds male headship at home, but in practice seem to have little use for it. How many modern heads of a Christian home come home each day knowing there is only one head and that they will be respected? Well I certainly do. But to tell you the truth I don’t know how many others do.

Beyond the obvious disconnect with biblical truth and abandonment of gender roles, is the truly transsexual nature of the modern Kahol. And this is the main point of this page at Kodesh Kallah. Because beyond disobeying God by tossing out gender roles, His sacred Bride seems to be tossing out its very masculinity, its very femininity, in seeking to cross over between them. Her congregants even look transgendered, at least much of the time. Walk in a modern gathering of called-out ones, and tell me if you don’t get the feeling you’re at a homosexual parade. Or more accurately a transsexual one. One of the biggest complaints of the modern Kahol is what the secular world has done with gender, pushing on even little children books like Girls Will be Boys Will be Girls. Yes, the Kahol angers at these things. Preaches against them. But when we examine what believers themselves think, it appears they think that girls will be boys also, and that boys will be girls too. We are at war with God, beloved. And we are at war with nature.

If you relate these truths to your average Christian, the one who is to be conformed to the perfect image of Mashiach, the response will most often be outright revolt. It could be apathy too. Sure. But usually revolt. Now outright revolt is not what you would expect from one called to obedience to God, as well as to holiness, but revolt against God, and hatred of the messenger is what you will likely see. For many little Christs today have actually been taught an IDEOLOGY of anarchy. A philosophy of disorder. Believe it or not they’ve had it instilled in them that the amazing and beautiful freedom in Mashiach the Bible relates means something like license to do as you feel. At the very minimum a lack of clear standards. At the maximum a street riot. The more licentious, the more carnal, the more from the gut of a poorly-raised adolescent the better. So the idea of receiving clearly and with holiness or with thought and understanding the biblical teachings on gender roles is beyond most Christians. It is truly beyond them. God have mercy. We must pray for the grace to change this disaster, brethren. Just as we must pray for the grace to accept ourselves as men and women in the roles God gave us. All things are possible with God. That includes obedience.

Therefore I will provide some resources below, some of which I will build myself, for restoration of manhood and womanhood. I hope that they will inspire you, inform you and even help you in restoration in your life. Help you to change your home. To just give a handful of points I suggest for restoration, please consider these:

Respecting the biblical gender roles themselves.
Reinforcing those roles with helpful practices (for example, the head seat for the head of the home)
Having a distinction in dress. This is commanded biblically, although we will certainly need to make some judgments ourselves. For example, pants for men; skirts and dresses for women.
Respecting holy modesty, especially for women,
Drawing distinctions for activities; for example, keeping the heavy and risky work for men to do.
Raising our children with a sense of masculinity and femininity. This could be through toys, activities and even how we speak to them. It can emphasize the boldness of the growing boy, and the meek heart of the godly young woman.

Finally, I’d like to point out the absurdity of leaving gender roles behind, especially for we who call Mashiach our King. Because in trying to blend our natures, in trying to blend our genders, we take that bearer of life who is womankind, and place her in grave danger. In some instances, we are even placing her in warfare and in combat. Not only is this counter-natural, but much more diabolically, in sending woman into combat, we are sending the small, unprotected child whom she may bear within her. We show not only our hatred for gender roles, we show not only our war against God, we show our willingness to harm the smallest and most defenseless of our people. To harm our own children. Still more commonly than this, when we seek to make the woman like the man and push her from girlhood to be a career woman capable of supporting a household, we are ensuring the many years of schooling and other training that comes with it. And how then do we pass this time? You know how. By putting contraceptive chemicals into her body, chemicals which are abortifacient in nature, and when those chemicals do not have the desired effect, by going to an abortion doctor and paying him to kill. This is how we maintain the mannish woman who is to lead a home – through hormonal chemicals, and child killing. That is a fact. The war on gender can only be sustained through the war on children.

So beloved, if you want an image of the woman, one which is holy and life-giving, full of godliness and love, turn away from the defeminized women who are today chained to their careers and barreling into combat. Turn instead to Miriam the mother of our Savior, who was the mother of God. She answered Elohim saying only – Behold, the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be according to your word. She bore Him in her womb and suckled Him at her breast. And Yeshua from the cross called out – Woman, behold your son – and to His disciple – Behold your mother.

To the Holiness of the Bride:

Resources Encouraging Biblical Gender Roles and Families
No Greater Joy is the ministry of Michael and Debi Pearl and includes resources on marriage, homemaking, home schooling, gender roles, health and more.
The Godly Home — This page has tons of excellent preaching by the late Denny Kenaston. It includes sermons on headship, submission and raising children, among others. I deeply appreciate his work.
ATI offers good Bible-based family training and home education. From what I understand you have to join their entire program in order to get their homeschooling material.
Institute in Basic Life Principles — IBLP runs various programs including one focusing on building biblical character and the above ATI in home education. They respect the family and gender roles.

Articles and Books on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood — This site offers a wealth of material. this page offers the pdf versions of two excellent books on manhood and womanhood by John Piper and Wayne Grudem.
Smash the Matriarchy — A lively article by Doug Wilson on the dangers of women in authority, and the real force behind it.
Desiring God — You can read more about Piper and Grudem’s book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. You can also purchase it online.
Recovering Male Spirituality — Dan Juster of Tikkun Ministries writes on restoring biblical and traditionally Jewish manhood in the Messianic movement. As a Jewish believer myself, I would be on my knees in joyous praise to see this happen
All the SAME Bible — This is a chart of Bible verses. Here I set key verses about theology and morality side by side with those about the woman’s character and role. The point is, the same Bible that teaches Jesus rose, is the same that teaches men and women should do different things. Why accept one teaching and deny the other?
God’s Pattern for Wives, Part 2 — This is an excellent sermon by John MacArthur on the role of the Christian wife. I could have placed it in the homemaker section or the submission section, but it covers various topics, so I place it here about gender distinction in general. There are a few things I wouldn’t agree with in there, but it makes the main points well, and from Holy Scripture. The calling of the wife is in the home and in submission to her husband. Her teaching role is to other women and children.
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth — An essay by the author on inheriting the earth through our offspring and providing the Lord a godly seed. It is an exhortation, teaching, and meditation on the subject.
Are you Crazy? — Why don’t you think women should wear pants? This is my own article about crossdessing in the Body of Messiah, and explaining through scripture and common sense why women should not dress like men.
Get Your Toilet Right — Taking the popular image of the bathroom sign, here is a brief guide to help Christians keep their gender roles correct. I include a number of the major scriptures at the end.
Advice on Restoring Gender in this Fallen Age — Articel by the author.
Of “Dad Moms” and “Man Fails”: An Essay on Men and Awesomeness — by Owen Strachan
A Collections of Articles — Here are various articles about gender and gender roles from the Answers in Genesis website.
Benefits of Marriage — It’s interesting how the Word of God is repeatedly in harmony with natural law and reason. Western hedonism and materialism are not. This article details the goodness of marriage for the people involved and for society.
LGBT or MNPS? — Modest Natural Plain and Simple: This letter to a brother in Messiah begins by answering the question of why I wear a beard, and continues by explaining the simple application of biblical principles to our life. We practice modesty and we respect the way that God made us. I wish all other Christians did.
I am His child and He loves me
In Human Nature I wrote this originally for a pro-life gathering, but its frank call to repentance led it to be rejected. It deals specifically with transgenderism and why it’s wrong, and goes on to reveal the Church’s error in mixing genders, disregarding holiness and destroying traditional marriage. It is what NO ONE wants to hear.

The Fruit of Dying Faith and the Christian Disregard for the Family (I’ll put some of this up in The Abomination section of Kodesh Kallah)
This is the church, and this is the steeple, open the doors, and here are the people.
Secularism and low birth rates go hand in hand, which is why Christianity in the west looks headed for extinction but still survives in Africa and other regions.
Westernized Catholics in India apparently want their wicked contraception and abortion, and are a shrinking population.
More from the UK — While I’m not fond of the English Church, this article gets to the point: chuchgoers are in a minority, in large part because they are simply dying off. Where are the children? God is bringing this people its just rewards.
Christians and post-Christians — It’s time to bring the women back to the home, and accept God’s gift of children. Or goodbye.
Humanists Marry More Couples Than Church of Scotland — Nope, nothing to see here. Keep up your pursuit of money and disdain for marriage and having children. No emergency here. Move along.

A Man in a Dress?

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Well, it’s not a man in a dress, but it IS a woman preaching from the pulpit. This is the latest in evangelical silliness and modern gender-bending in the Body of Messiah. Having women teach over men and take on leadership positions, although specifically prohibited in scripture, is cutting through countless congregations and Messianic synagogues including some formerly “traditional” ones. For now, it’s one of the most divisive trends moving through the Body, but once the perpetrators get it totally normalized, just like the secular world has with sodomy, people will generally either accept it or leave their local congregation. I for one left.

I know a lot of people are saying, well maybe you’re right about it being counter-biblical, but what’s the big deal? It’s not like it’s first degree murder. I know I know. It’s not first degree murder. But by way of example, I’d point out that having the pastor show up in a frilly pink dress isn’t first degree murder either, but it IS ridiculous gender-bending and I’d never sit under it if it happened. I’d leave. Furthermore, this role reversal in the holy Bride of Messiah is only indicative of disobedience elsewhere, especially the refusal of men and women to act like men and women. It’s indicative of the not very biblical marriages out there. It’s indicative of the women who refuse to be workers of the home and raise their own children. It’s indicative of the desire of women in the Bride to imitate men in any number of ways. Women are not meant to be imitation men. They are meant to be women.

In fact women violating scripture in this regard is so common, it’s almost making the words “woman minister” become dirty words. I guess this is similar to the way that our culture, in its obsession with homosexuality, has made a man putting his arm around another man into a suggestive and possibly ugly thing. It’s the same vein of thought. We have thoroughly damaged gender roles to the point that the word “woman” next to the word “ministry” carries with it some of the same ugliness. What a shame that it’s so. But this failure is not only the responsibility of women, it is ultimately the responsibility of men, because as pastors and even as husbands, they have failed in THEIR own roles by allowing it to happen. If men had behaved like men, we would not be seeing this. It is a transgendered Bride of Messiah.

One of the many negative consequences of the role reversal we discuss is the damage that it does to what holy women in the Bride of Messiah COULD rightfully be doing otherwise. They could be very occupied and fulfilled in the ministry of the home. They could be taking care of the sick or elderly in their own congregation or neighborhood. They could be adopting children from foster homes, children who might otherwise be bound to this unbelieving hedonistic culture for life and raising them up in Messiah. They could be feeding the hungry. They could be ministering to the poor. These are all glorious and fulfilling pursuits that godly women could be doing. Instead, pardon me, our women prefer to exercise their mouths, and presume to be able to teach over men.

Therefore, I’ve collected some resources below to teach about biblical manhood and womanhood, especially in the congregation. I’ve included some materials I’ve written myself to congregations and governing bodies on the subject, and I confidently believe the material shows that women heading congregations and women preaching over men are aberrant practices. I encourage you to use the resources below to the best of your ability. The restoration of the Bride involves the restoration of man and woman, much like salvation itself.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control. (1 Timothy 2:14-15)

To the Restoration of the Bride:

Resources Teaching the Role of Women in Ministry
A Short Video — Pastor John MacArthur discredits the widely popular feminist doctrine in this twenty-two minute video. He deals with the major verse from 1 Timothy point by point, and places it all in the broad biblical worldview of man and woman. An excellent piece by a highly-respected biblical pastor.
Article 1 — A thorough essay by Matt Slick of CARM arguing biblically against both women pastors and women preachers.
Article 2 — A concise piece by Daniel B. Wallace PhD arguing biblically against women preaching from the pulpit.
Article 3 — Professor Douglas Moo goes over 1 Timothy in detail.
Article 4 — Matt Slick of CARM responds to a paper arguing for women pastors, and answers the question: Should I leave my church over this?
Article 5 — Did Paul allow women to prophesy in church? This excellent and thorough article examines the meaning of 1 Corinthians 11:5, opening with the clear understanding of the early Church on the subject.
Todd Friel Video — This short monologue by Wretched TV covers many of the points about gender roles briefly. Although it doesn’t get into any in detail, it clearly proves the main message: that the traditional view of gender roles relies on the plain instructions of scripture, and that the feminist view relies on ambiguities and alleged exceptions.
B-B-But Deborah — A clear response to the often abused example of the Judge Deborah. Let Your Women Keep Silent — This is a reply to those who allow women preaching as long as it is outside of the local church gathering with everyone present. It began as my reply to a creationist ministry which had just become compromised that way, and I have turned it into a longer article.

My Protest Material for your Reading and Use
Protest to the Churches against Feminism — This is a letter of protest I wrote to the governing body in my own community, against the trend of feminizing the congregation, which caused me to leave the community. It includes a brief review of the text along with explaining a number of reasons why we should not allow this. I have removed personal names, organizational names and some lingo. Feel free to use any of this material for your own similar use.
A Response from One Leader and My Subsequent Response — This is the answer I received from my protest above and my own answer to various points the leader brought up. I want to point out that is seems obvious that the only things behind this feminist doctrine are 1) Terrible translation and 2) Grasping at the straw of any possible exception. I don’t mean to be mean or anything, but this is without a doubt a counter-biblical doctrine.
Answers to Major Objections — Along with my letters, I’ve included this piece to place the responses to objections all in one place. You will likely find one you’ve heard, or even believe in, answered right here.
My Response to a Local Minister — This is my response to a conversation with a local minister from the same community. Since it is answering a previous conversation, I have included a paragraph of explanation in the beginning. I think most of it is self-explanatory to anyone familiar with the subject. Just as with the above letters, it seems plain that the feminist doctrine stands on some very muddy ground.
My Response to Another Pastor — This is also a response to a previous conversation with a pastor who accepts the new doctrine. He had quite categorically laid out the argument for it, and once again, it came down to bad translation and potential ambiguous exceptions. This letter is briefer than the others.
My Brief Protest to Another Congregation — This letter does not try to do much apologetics, simply to make an impassioned plea against this practice, and point to the harm that it causes. It is addressed to what would otherwise be considered a traditional church, which had capitulated to the feminist doctrine in only the past year. Shame.
My Letters to 2 Women Congregational Heads — One of them gives a detailed but not very exegetical response. The other only a brief reply. Yet notice what they both say — God told them to do it. You’ll hear that more than once as a pretext for other behavior too. Does God call people to disobey Him? Not likely.

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Welcome to Kodesh Kallah, the Holiness of the Bride. We are seeking the reformation of the Church, the restoration of the Body of Messiah and the holiness of the Bride. To put that in more practical language, we are asking brothers in Christ to make a commitment to holy living which is the fruit of our faith. We’re also asking pastors and other leaders to make a commitment to leading their flocks in holiness.

We keep the guidelines of our community at the bottom of this page, should you wish to formally join, and for those unsure about actual membership, you can participate as a friend and walk with us in our common goal. Our sights should all be on the Lord. We encourage restoration of biblical marriage, holy modesty, roles of men and women, Christian education and other biblical and common sense traditions. We also feature learning resources on our main pages, some of which I’ve written and some of which come from a variety of other sources. A part of our goal is to spread the word, and not just from our own group, but also from other godly brethren.

Let’s face it, at this late hour, and with the Body of Messiah living much like the rest of the world, we ought to have a hard time complaining about the godlessness and immorality surrounding us. Our complaints sound immensely hypocritical when we are living nearly as they are. Christians seek after materialism, sensuality, the lusts of the flesh, take multiple partners for marriage, pump the same entertainment into their eyes and ears, worship the same unnatural feminism and soak up the same attitudes and philosophies around them. Not only that, but in churches and ministries of all kinds, they silence those servants who will actually preach from the Holy Bible. It is absolutely tragic. So before we seek to change the society around us and be a light to the world, let us pursue radical change in our own lives. Let us seek a lifestyle which is truly grounded in our faith, and immersed in the perfect holiness which our Savior provides. We should want to be pure for our Lord. After all, the Church is to be His Bride.

If you are not used to having many standards of Christian holiness in your lifestyle, I’d imagine the commitments we ask you to make sound very heavy if not beyond what you would consider possible. Nevertheless, I urge you to start somewhere, even with a few of them. They are spiritual treasures. As children of God we should hunger and thirst for them. I began with one or two commitments myself when I was new in the faith, and by the grace which God freely provides, have taken even more into my lifestyle. Why did I do it? Because I sincerely believe ALL of us should live in committed holiness. And truth be told, if I want everyone to live that way, I ought to live that way myself. So remember I am not asking you to take on something that I am not willing to do myself.

It is my passionate belief that if we humble ourselves before God, and allow Him to transform us, He will use us as His light, His lamp His Menorah to the world. That is God’s promise to us. We only need to let go of our committed worldliness. Let go of living how WE want to live. Then, we will be a living example of God’s love. Then we will have something to teach the world around us. Then we will be a Ground Zero for a new society.

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