Thank you for your interest in TNN Online. We imagine that some of you have questions in regard to the Messianic movement, and some of the views expressed on this website. Below are answers to some of questions that we frequently receive.

Questions are assorted alphabetically by subject. Click on a subject for a more detailed explanation.

A

Abomination of Desolation
Afterlife, negates need for resurrection
Afterlife, negates significance of death
Alcohol
Alef-Tav, Yeshua as the
Annihilation (eternal punishment)
Antimessiah/antichrist
Antimessiah, Makes or Confirms Agreement
Anti-Semitism, Luther
Apocrypha
Apocrypha, Versions of
Aramaic Peshitta

B

Babylon
Beards
Bible Versions
Bible Versions, Messianic
Biblical Calendar
Biblical Faith, a Judaism
Biblical Festivals
Birth Control
Birth of Yeshua
Body-Brain-Consciousness Interaction
Breath of life, humans and animals
B'rit Chadashah

C

Calvinist-Arminian Controversy
Capital Punishment
Chanukah, Actions of Antiochus
Chanukah, Celebrated instead of Sukkot
Chanukah, Eight Days of Oil
Chanukah, Nine-Branched Menorah
Christian, Title
Christian Website (is TNN?)
Christianity, Pagan?
Christian Scholars
Christmas
Christmas, Dinner
Church, missing after Revelation 4:1
Church, word of pagan origin
Church Fathers
"Churchy," Why is your Messianic website?
Circumcision
Colossians 2:14
Communion
Commonwealth of Israel
Concubines
Conspiracy Theories
1 Corinthians 6:12
1 Corinthians 10:23
2 Corinthians 5:8
Creationism
Crucifixion
Cult

D

Daniel 3:25
Death, for Believers
Death, as an unconscious sleep
Denying Messiah
Deuteronomy 6:25
Dictionaries/Lexicons
Dietary Laws, Kosher (Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14)
Doctors, and Modern Medicine
Dreams and Visions
Dualism

E

Easter
Ekklēsia/Qahal (English word "church")
Elements of the World (Galatians 4:3, 9; Colossians 2:8, 20)
End-Times Revival
Ephesians 2:14-15
Ephesians 6:11-17
Eternal life, physically alive forever
Exodus, date of
Exodus, numbers of
Exodus, Pharaoh who did not know Joseph
Exodus, route of
Extra-Biblical Literature

F

False Prophecy Predictions
Final Generation
Fire Baptism

G

Galatians 3:24, 25
Galatians 5:2-3
Genesis 5, 11 Genealogies
Globalization
God, Depicted as Male
God & Lord, Pagan Titles

H

Halloween
Headcovering Garments
Heaven, prayer covering offered by deceased loved ones
Hebrew, Letter Pictures
Hebrew, Pure Language
Hebrew Versus Greek Mindset
Hell, Metaphorical View
Heresy, Heretic
Homeschooling
Hour of Testing

I

Image of God, Human Beings
Image of God, Rulership
Isaac, Sacrificed

J

James, Name of
Jashar, Book of
JEDP Hypothesis
Jesus, Pagan Name
Jewish Marriage Analogy
Jews, Ashenzaic and Sephardic
Jots and Tittles

K

Kabbalah
Karaites, Karaite Judaism
King James Only

L

Law of Moses, Binding on Christians
Least in the Kingdom
Leavening Agents
Left Behind Books
Levirate Marriage
Leviticus 18:5
Liturgy, Hebrew
Lord's Day (first of the week)
Luke 16:19-31
Lunar Sabbath

M

Male Headship
Mark 7:19
Mark of the Beast
Matthew 5:17-19
Matthew 10:28
Messiah, Confirms the Covenant
Messianic
Messianic Terms, not exclusively used
Mixed Fibers
Moses, Write the Entire Torah?

N

Nazarenes, Nazarene Israel
Nazarene, Yeshua Called
Nephilim
New Moon
New Testament, Written in Hebrew
New Wine, Old Wineskins
Niddah, laws of
Noahide Laws
Non-profit organizations

O

Omer Count
One Law as Replacement Theology
One New Man (One New Humanity)
Original Order, Books of the Bible

P

Pagan, Christmas and Easter
PaRDeS
Passover, Eating Lamb
Passover, Egg on Sedar Plate
Passover, Objections to Last Supper
Passover, Traditional Sedar Meal
Paul, Name of
Paul, Opposed or Not Opposed to the Torah (Law)
Paul, Tentmaker
Philippians 1:23
Polygamy
Preterist Theology
Prince Charles of Wales, Antichrist
Psychopannychy, Growing in Adherence
Psychopannychy, Motivation for Belief
Psychopannychy, Term
Purim

Q

R

Rapture
Reformation
Resurrection, Commemorating
Resurrection, Sunday
Revelation 22:14
Romans 1:26-27
Romans 10:4
Rosh HaShanah

S

Sabbath, Jewish tradition
Sabbath Violation, Alleged by Yeshua
Sacrifices, in the Millennium
Scripture Interpretation, Basic Guidelines for
Sensationalism, Messianic
Septuagint (LXX)
Smoking, Tobacco
Software, Bible
Soul, term
Strong's Concordance
Sukkot

T

Talmud
Tanakh/Tanach
Technology, Effect on Torah Observance
Tefillin
Terrorism
Textual Criticism
Thanksgiving Day
Theological Categories
Tithing
Tongues
Torah, Before Mount Sinai (Abraham)
Torah, Command not to “Add to”
Torah, division of commandments
Torah, moral and ceremonial law
Torah, only focused on
Torah, Yeshua
Tradition, Role that it plays
Tribulation, in it
Tribulation, Seven Years
Trinity
Two-House Teaching
Tzit-tzits

U

Unclean Things, Eating
Under the Law
Uniformity
United States, in prophecy

V

Valentine's Day

W

Women in Ministry
Works of the Law
Wrath, spared from

X

Y

"Yah"
Yahshua
Yahweh, Should We Use
Yahweh, used by Patriarchs
Yeshua/Y'shua
Yeshua, Divinity of
YHWH/YHVH
YHWH, Above the Cross
Yom Kippur, Fasting

Z

6,000 Year Teaching

ABD: Anchor Bible Dictionary
AMG: Complete Word Study Dictionary: Old Testament, New Testament
ANE: Ancient Near East(ern)
Apostolic Scriptures/Writings: the New Testament
Ara: Aramaic
ATS: ArtScroll Tanach (1996)
b. Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli)
B.C.E.: Before Common Era or B.C.
BDAG: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Bauer, Danker, Arndt, Gingrich)
BDB: Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
BECNT: Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament
BKCNT: Bible Knowledge Commentary: New Testament
C.E.: Common Era or A.D.
CEV: Contemporary English Version (1995)
CGEDNT: Concise Greek-English Dictionary of New Testament Words (Barclay M. Newman)
CHALOT: Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
CJB: Complete Jewish Bible (1998)
DRA: Douay-Rheims American Edition
DSS: Dead Sea Scrolls
ECB: Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible
EDB: Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible
eisegesis: “reading meaning into,” or interjecting a preconceived or foreign meaning into a Biblical text
EJ: Encylopaedia Judaica
ESV: English Standard Version (2001)
exegesis: “drawing meaning out of,” or the process of trying to understand what a Biblical text means on its own
EXP: Expositor’s Bible Commentary
Ger: German
GNT: Greek New Testament
Grk: Greek
halachah: lit. “the way to walk,” how the Torah is lived out in an individual's life or faith community
HALOT: Hebrew & Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Koehler and Baumgartner)
HCSB: Holman Christian Standard Bible (2004)
Heb: Hebrew
HNV: Hebrew Names Version of the World English Bible
ICC: International Critical Commentary
IDB: Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible
IDBSup: Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible Supplement
ISBE: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
IVPBBC: IVP Bible Background Commentary (Old & New Testament)
Jastrow: Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, and Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow)
JBK: New Jerusalem Bible-Koren (2000)
JETS: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
KJV: King James Version
Lattimore: The New Testament by Richmond Lattimore (1996)
LITV: Literal Translation of the Holy Bible by Jay P. Green (1986)
LS: A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell & Scott)
LXE: Septuagint with Apocrypha by Sir L.C.L. Brenton (1851)
LXX: Septuagint
m. Mishnah
MT: Masoretic Text
NASB: New American Standard Bible (1977)
NASU: New American Standard Update (1995)
NBCR: New Bible Commentary: Revised
NEB: New English Bible (1970)
Nelson: Nelson’s Expository Dictionary of Old Testament Words
NETS: New English Translation of the Septuagint (2007)
NIB: New Interpreter’s Bible
NIGTC: New International Greek Testament Commentary
NICNT: New International Commentary on the New Testament
NIDB: New International Dictionary of the Bible
NIV: New International Version (1984)
NJB: New Jerusalem Bible-Catholic (1985)
NJPS: Tanakh, A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1999)
NKJV: New King James Version (1982)
NRSV: New Revised Standard Version (1989)
NLT: New Living Translation (1996)
NT: New Testament
orthopraxy: lit. “the right action,” how the Bible or one's theology is lived out in the world
OT: Old Testament
PreachC: The Preacher’s Commentary
REB: Revised English Bible (1989)
RSV: Revised Standard Version (1952)
t. Tosefta
Tanach (Tanakh): the Old Testament
Thayer: Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
TDNT: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TEV: Today’s English Version (1976)
TLV: Tree of Life Messianic Family Bible--New Covenant (2011)
TNIV: Today’s New International Version (2005)
TNTC: Tyndale New Testament Commentaries
TWOT: Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
UBSHNT: United Bible Societies’ 1991 Hebrew New Testament revised edition
v(s). verse(s)
Vine: Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words
Vul: Latin Vulgate
WBC: Word Biblical Commentary
Yid: Yiddish
YLT: Young’s Literal Translation (1862/1898)