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Literally, B'nei Noach means "the children of Noah." It is a "movement" of non-Jews who have become "God-fearers," accepting upon themselves the Seven Laws of Noah - the Covenant of Everlasting Life; true B'nei Noach have left the idolatry of their fathers and have turned to the God of Israel, accepting Torah me Sinai and the authority of Rabbinic/Talmudic (Orthodox) Judaism* (as least I think we should for the most part).
It is a return to the Abrahamic faith - the "faith" that Abraham observed (with some important exceptions) prior to his bris milah (Covenant of Circumcision). In fact, it is the world's oldest doctrine.
The non-Jewish peoples of the world have a religious duty, an obligation which, if fulfilled, will bring peace and harmony to the world and will give the Righteous Gentile a share in the Olam haBa - the blessed World-to-Come.
God gave Mankind two paths by which the unity of man can be realized. Judaism is one path, and Noahism is the other path. This we know, and this we are aware of, because Judaism has preserved the knowledge and instruction of the path of the righteous Gentile - the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah (also known as the Seven Laws of Noah, or the Seven Noachide Commandments). Such a fact is testified to by Jesus' church in Acts 15 in the New Testament when reference is made to this Covenant and the Laws of Noah in discussing the Gentile problem since so many non-Jews were turning to God and the Jewish faith without circumcision.
Therefore, it is incumbent upon the non-Jew to become aware of what his religious duty is and how to fulfill it. In order to accomplish this, one must realize that God has ordained the rabbis and the sanctity of rabbinic authority as the means of protecting and teaching this ancient doctrine.
Answer for yourself: Why must we accept the rabbis and the sanctity of rabbinic authority? Because there is no source outside the Talmud and the later rabbinic teachings that delineate the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah. Only from the Jews do we learn what our religious duty is, and how to fulfill it through the observance of the Seven Noahide Laws. Again in your reading and study of this website you will see a few instances when certain Rabbinical comments are to be avoided but hopefully you will also come to see that the overwhelming majority of the Rabbinical insights are "divine."
Fulfilling the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah requires a fundamental knowledge and understanding of certain precepts and principles, i.e. the non-Jew must have the realization of the One True God; that God's holy Torah was given to all mankind; that ethics and morals must become part of life; and lastly, humanity must bind together in the unity of mankind. Thankfully, this unity will allow all people, both Jew and non-Jew, to approach God in peace and harmony, and will bring peace to Yerushalayim.
The non-Jew has a specific spiritual role and purpose in this world, and a specific purpose for his very creation and existence. Through the faithful observance of the Seven Noahide Commandments one can fulfill that purpose - striving with the Children of Israel (the Jews) to perfect this world; the essence of our existence as co-religionists and the fulfillment of our created purpose will bring revealed Godliness onto this world, and God will, so to speak, have great satisfaction in His creation.
The realization of, and faith in, the One True God is necessary for the non-Jew. Once the non-Jew has belief in the God of Israel, then he will realize he has been commanded to keep Seven Universal Laws and Ethics based on a belief in God. The Hebrew word for commandment is mitzvah (plural: mitzvot). The Seven Laws of the Children of Noah are mitzvot for all mankind; even the Jews must observe them, for they are part of the 613 mitzvot God commands for Israel.
The Seven Noahide Laws are part of the Covenant of Everlasting Life (the Covenant of the Rainbow) - they are the basic requirements God has mandated to all the descendants of Noah, the observance of which will ensure a civilized and peaceful world. Whether the non-Jew chooses to observe the Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach (the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah) is another issue - the issue of free will.
God created man with the intrinsic attribute of free will. Man has the free will to choose to keep God's commandments. Some choose to keep His commandments, and others choose not to keep His commandments. The choice of some to not observe the Seven Noahide Laws does not negate the Laws' existence, nor the Godly requirement to observe and keep them. Man is ultimately responsible for observing God's commandments, and will receive merit for observing them, or will receive punishment for failing to keep his duty. The key is to keep the commandments because God commanded them; therein lies our reward.
For example, one can choose not to commit homicide because he feels it is ethically the right thing to do. This does not give him Godly merit - he enthrones himself as the supreme judge, judging whether a certain act is ethically right or wrong. This type of person is denying God, replacing Him, God forbid, with his own idol - himself. This, of course, is forbidden by God. We must choose to do what God wants. There is a teaching: Greater is the one who is commanded and does something, than the one who is not commanded and does it. Doing what God commands is the only thing that matters.
Once the non-Jew recognizes the unity of God, and recognizes that the observance of the mitzvot is what unites mankind, he will then understand how he can cleave to God and have a share in the Olam HaBa. There is a well-known thought that says, "When a person becomes separate from sin and takes up the yoke of Heaven, [then that person becomes Mine]."
Bet Emet Ministries is a family-oriented Fellowship dedicated to learning and fulfilling the Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach, the Seven Laws of Noah, which are part of the Covenant of Everlasting Life (the Covenant of the Rainbow). The Seven Laws of Noah are the basic requirements God has mandated to all the descendants of Noah. Our weekly articles and extensive websites are devoted to the presentation of factual materials that will not only illuminate the student but help him in recovering these truths along with the exposing of the corruption of Gentile Christianity as it has strayed from such a Godly path due to the anti-Semitism of the early Gentile church. Today we accepts a false substitute of what God intended in Gentile Christianity today and our documents have been altered to reinforce such error. It is our hope and prayer that through sufficient study that the student will see the errors in his religious belief system and repent and begin to worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth as was God's intention originally.
This is a very sensitive issue that, in time, will be dealt with on this WebSite as it has on many others that Bet Emet has made available. The simple "yes or no" answer is emphatically "no;" at least not in the way Jesus has been presented in the antisemitic New Testament where he has been stripped of most of his Jewishness and historical attributes. Contrary to the teachings of "messianic Judaism," Jesus (or Yeshua) and Torah are not synonymous; let me close by saying that there is a major difference between the "Christ of Faith" and the "Jesus of history." One never lived (the Christ of Faith) and one did (the historical Jesus) but sadly his legacy has been altered almost beyond recognition by the Gentile antisemitic Christian Church over the last 1600 years. It is time to discern between truth and fiction in your worship of God and Bet Emet stands ready not to tell you what to believe; but rather, to show you how we deviated from the truth and how to recapture it.