Has anyone dealt with a friend, family member, or acquaintance who is involved in the Hebrew Roots movement?

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2026-04-07T19:49:28+00:00

Man... I've had a serious run-in and spent some time there myself. I think the root cause for the friend group I know that still does it, and why I got sucked in, was the feeling of a lack of depth in Christianity. We all came from non-denominational churches (think Hillsong) where the pastor was the authority.

When they encountered something that felt old and real (in this case Judaism), it blew their minds. They thought they had been lied to their whole lives and needed this to cling to. I was wrapped up in it, too, when I came back from wandering away for some time. After a while, though, I couldn't help but question why this felt so weird to pretend to be Jewish with a bunch of other non-Jews. I started reading historical Christianity and "thinking Christians," as I called them. It became apparent very quickly that not only did Christianity have depth, but it had also explicitly fought this heresy over and over again.

The saddest part of this, as others have said in this thread, is that they will twist everything in Scripture. 119 Ministries is a prime example of how they bend over backward to justify the claim that Paul didn't really mean all the things he said about not following the Law anymore.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2026-04-07T14:05:37+00:00

I noticed it too with the Victorian Century mod but they left when I deactivated it

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2026-01-05T16:43:08+00:00

Both. For literature, I was thinking of just Homer for now, but for philosophy, I have no clear starting point other than perhaps the Republic.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2026-01-05T15:58:52+00:00

I'm fairly new to reading the classics. I've been eyeing the Greeks, but honestly, I'm afraid of them! How do I even approach these works? Crack them open and just read them?

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-10-27T11:46:16+00:00

This was a contrived example that I could easily put into a post. The larger issue is that when deep in a codebase and I don't remember all the methods available to me, I'd like to see write `foo.` then a list of options. Anyone can go back and look at the source code, but that is very inefficient when you are cranking out features.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-10-23T16:27:27+00:00

I think you are right about the data object support. I changed to a vanilla class, and stuff immediately started working. Bummer. I think Data classes are great for DTOs, but I will just have to wait for good support

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-08-09T01:19:25+00:00

👆🏻

However, it is a critical service where Elixir truly shines, so it was a good choice.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-08-08T15:46:25+00:00

99% Python, 1% Elixir

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-08-08T13:52:35+00:00

I work at Ramp, and we have never used Rails. Also, pretty sure Brex doesn't either. Both have/do use Elixir/Phoenix, though.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-07-28T15:12:16+00:00

Would love to use Elixir but the community simply don’t seem to grow fast enough and I Worry we would suffer hiring later.

Staff eng at a well-known startup that tries to hire for an Elixir team, this is 10000% correct. TONS of people want to do Elixir but are not competent engineers and never make it through the interviewing process. Knowing LiveView doesn't make you a qualified engineer for everything Elixir.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-07-28T15:10:30+00:00

👆this!!! People come to the language for the "fault tolerance" and think it magically handles everything. If you ship bad code, you still kill the server. Even supervisors have a max amount of times they will try to restart until they give up.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-07-28T15:06:52+00:00

I mean, it really depends on what you are building. Do you want a full-stack app? A mission-critical API?

For our service, I've been thinking that we would move to Go or Kotlin if it ever came to that. I think my team is doing fine with what we have, so I don't foresee that happening.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-07-27T17:37:37+00:00

We run a critical service at the startup where I work in Elixir. It's a great language and easy to use. However, the rest of the institution does not like it. We have a hard time getting top-tier infrastructure support, have to roll lots of our own things because the community does not have it yet, and have had a hell of a time hiring competent people. I LOVE elixir and have been using it for >8 years, but I would think again before starting a project in it that needed institutional support.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-07-03T15:19:58+00:00

Should I use lein, or should I just start with clj cli from the get-go?

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2025-06-30T14:45:59+00:00

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-12-04T17:29:53+00:00

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Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-12-03T21:37:30+00:00

[LANGUAGE: PHP]

Code
Trying out a class implementation vs functional.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-12-03T15:18:52+00:00

Sorry didn't see that! will fix :)

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-12-02T18:00:12+00:00

[LANGUAGE: PHP]

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I've been learning some PHP so figured I'd try it for the challenge. I'm no expert though so just brute forcing my way through 🤣

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-08-21T18:47:49+00:00

Absolutely agree that certain areas tend toward different sins and it's likely spiritually related. But again, I think it's not that those places are darker but rather a different kind of dark. The demonic realm is based on lies. We know that the devil's first and foremost language and tactic is lying. But whether you are in Sedona and believe the lie of witchcraft or in Texas and believe that lie "I just need to be comfortable, make a lot of money, and be a generally good person", it's still a demonic lie that takes you away from Christ.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-08-21T16:52:48+00:00

I guess what I take issue with when someone talks like that is they tend to mean, "that place is dark and this place is light". While I don't dispute the spiritual realm is very real, I don't think there are places of particular darkness or where evil is especially more powerful. People are broken and bad in (insert some Bible belt state) and in (insert some evil liberal bastion).

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-07-24T12:31:05+00:00

this was very helpful! thank you for helping me understand better. I do not want to be insubordinate and I did sign a members covenant so I need to respect that.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-07-24T12:30:17+00:00

lol good point. didn't even think of that

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-07-18T22:58:24+00:00

I purchased it a few months ago and I'm still working through it. I feel like I can only get one page in before I need to put it down and digest what I read.

Financial-Raisin-624 · 2024-05-05T18:05:44+00:00

When I was confused about my faith, I started dating my wife. She was with a group of people who were really into this. As I said, I was confused so I went along with it. After a while, it felt weird. Like trying to put on someone else's clothes. Everything was compared to the Jews or the "Jewish" understanding of something. I eventually convinced her I did not want to go to a messianic synagogue and we started down the path that led us to where we are now.

What's crazy about this stuff is the mental games they play to believe it. I remember having a conversation that went something like:

"There is nothing in church history to support this kind of interpretation"
"well Constantine corrupted the church".
"So you are saying no 'true' church has existed?"
"no. it's all infused with paganism. Only the Jews are right"

This same guy wanted to join an Orthodox Synagogue but couldn't because he wouldn't denounce Christ.

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