We are whole-Bible believers. That phrase is not a denomination or a brand. It is a plain description: we follow Jesus the Messiah, and we hold that every part of the Bible, Genesis to Revelation, is true, unchanging, and meant to be lived. We gather on Shabbat in one another’s homes and study the Scriptures together, and the fifteen questions on this site are the ones we work through there.
Much of what you will read here concerns the Torah, God’s instruction given through Moses, and why we believe it still applies to followers of the Messiah: the seventh-day Sabbath, the appointed feasts, clean and unclean food, tzitzit. We know those are not the usual conclusions. We did not arrive at them lightly, and we do not expect you to accept them lightly either.
What you can expect from this site is Scripture doing the arguing. Each page shows the passages, including the ones commonly raised against our position, and then draws the point in a sentence or two. You will not find a case built on tradition, history, or personalities. You will find the text, read in context, and an invitation to check it for yourself. If you are new, start with the fifteen questions; if you have questions of your own, the contact page is open.
What “whole Bible” means to us
Most believers would say the whole Bible is God’s word. We mean something a little more specific: that no part of it has expired. Paul told Timothy that “Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and the Scriptures Timothy had grown up with were the ones we now call the Old Testament. If they were profitable for instruction in righteousness then, we do not see where they stopped being so.
We want to be clear about the order of things. We are saved by grace through faith, and not by anything we do (Ephesians 2:8-10). No one keeps a Sabbath or a feast or a food law in order to be accepted by God. We keep them because we already are, and because the one who saved us said, “If you love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). Obedience is love’s response to grace, never a substitute for it.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.”
Matthew 5:17-18
Heaven and earth are still here. Jesus tied the endurance of the law to their endurance, and he went on to say that whoever does and teaches even the least of the commandments will be called great in the Kingdom (Matthew 5:19). We take that as our instruction. When he confronted the religious leaders of his day, it was over man-made traditions that set aside God’s commandments (Mark 7:8-13), never over the commandments themselves.
The prophets said the new covenant would put that same law inside God’s people: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart” (Jeremiah 31:33). The new covenant did not shrink the law. It moved it from tablets of stone to hearts of flesh, by the Spirit (Ezekiel 36:26-27). So when we say whole Bible, we mean the whole word, from one God who does not change (Malachi 3:6), written on hearts that he has changed.