This course aims to equip the student in defense of the Messianic movement, both in articulation and defense of beliefs and in ability to discern and challenge false teachings. Students will be expected to demonstrate both aspects using Scripture in context to back up his or her position.
The course uses the following textbooks:
Your Professor

Carmen Welker, host of The Refiner’s Fire, is a former U.S. Army Sergeant Major who served 22 years as a journalist and newspaper editor, administrator and German language translator. Originally from Germany, she came to the United States in 1960 when her mother married an American soldier.
Carmen has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the State of New York and is a graduate of Mid-America Business College (Springfield, Missouri); the Defense Information School (journalism) at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; and the prestigious United States Army Sergeants Major Academy in El Paso, Texas, where she also worked as a lesson developer and instructor.
A former Bible study teacher and leader in the prison ministry “Friends in Transition,” she is now a Hebraic Faith/Netzari teacher and author who had the distinct privilege of being the editor/proofreader of Andrew Gabriel Roth’s Aramaic English New Testament. She has also authored several books, including a fast-moving Messianic psycho-thriller entitled, “Destroyed from Within.” (See http://betorahobservant.com/ ).
Course Curriculum
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StartModule 1: Sharing your Torah Testimony
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StartModule 2: Torah is Not "Legalism" or a "Curse"!
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StartModule 3: Y'shua's Death & Its Impact on Torah
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StartModule 4: The misunderstood, misinterpreted writings of Paul
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StartModule 5: Acts 15
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StartModule 6: "Jesus nailed it to the Cross"?
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StartModule 7: A Questionnaire regarding "Grace Only"
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StartModule 8: Oveview of Replacement Theology
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StartModule 9: Jewish “Counter-Missionaries” (Part I)
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StartModule 10: Jewish "Counter-Missionaries" (Part II)
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StartModule 11: Jewish Counter-Missionaries (Part III)
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StartModule 12: Witnessing to Atheists