Sid Roth

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Sidney Israel Roth
Born	May 30, 1936(1936-05-30) Rochester, New York, U.S.
Title	Host, It's Supernatural TV program Host, Messianic Vision radio program

Sid Roth (born May 30, 1936, in Rochester, New York) is a television and radio religious show host, author, Complete Jewish Bible teacher, and scholar. His religion is Messianic Judaism.

Contents 1 Early Years 2 Career 3 One New Man 4 References

Early Years

Roth was born into an Orthodox Jewish family with a dual Israeli and American citizenship.^[1] Despite his parents' dedication to religious observances, he found organized religion irrelevant to his life. He states that he was "proud of being Jewish, but bored with religion". ^[2]

Unhappy with religion, he looked to success as his life's meaning. His dream was to be a millionaire by age 30. By age 29 and no closer to that goal than when he started, he left his job with Merrill Lynch, his wife and daughter to look for what he called, "something more" to his life. ^[3][4] After a year of searching with no luck, he became involved in New Age meditation and practices. For a short time, he began to experience success as he developed a small business. ^[5] However, his relief stopped short after a warning from another businessman about being a Jew involved in occult and the Torah. This provoked Roth into investigation of the subject. Upon reading the Torah, a deep fear and dread came over him and for some time, he seriously contemplated taking his life. ^[6][7]

On a night that he calls, "the worst night of his life", he prayed for help from Yeshua (the Hebrew name for Jesus). Roth states that he experienced a "supernatural experience with the presence of God" unlike the supernatural he had been involved in. ^[8] Since then he has been advocating that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, a statement that is disputed amongst many.

Career

Shortly after his conversion to Messianic Judaism in 1971, he, along with several other messianic Jews, founded one of the first Messianic Jewish congregations. ^[9] He filled in as host for Rabbi Manny Brotman's radio show often and several years later birthed "Messianic Vision" a daily radio show broadcast on various radio stations across the United States, including KLNG (Omaha, Nebraska), KLTT (Denver), KCNW (Kansas City), KNOF (St. Paul, Minnesota), and KXEG (Phoenix). In 1995, Roth was given a daily television program called "It's Supernatural!" in which he interviews guests about their supernatural experiences.^[10]

Roth has written several books, including his autobiography, There Must Be Something More! and the controversial They Thought For Themselves.

One New Man

After helping to start one of the first Messianic congregations, Roth founded what he has termed, the "One New Man" theology. The belief of the One New Man is "that God never intended to start a new religion. It’s not Judaism and Christianity, two streams of God, but the convergence of Jew and Gentile into one stream called the 'One New Man.'"^[11]

One New Man theology is built on the statement, "God wants to 'gather together in one all things in [Messiah]' (Ephesians 1:10b). He tells us how He will do this: 'For He Himself is our peace, who has made both [Jew and Gentile] one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation ... to create in Himself one new man ... in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit' (Ephesians 2:14-15,22)." ^[12]

One New Man congregations have since been started across the United States, even to Brazil.^[13][14][15]

References