"rich hammett" <bubbarichau@warmmail.com> wrote in message
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> In talk.origins Susan S <otoeremovethis@ix.netcom.com> sanoi, hitaasti
> > In talk.origins I read this message from "Charles C."
> > <charles_casey@opt_online.net>:
>
> > [snip]
> >>
> >>Exactly, the Old Testament 613 Mitzvot. No man could keep all of those
> >>laws and if you failed at one you failed at them all and were destined
> >>to go to hell.
> >>
> > Just an aside, but that is not what is required of a Jew, at
> > least not in the sense you suggest. Breaking one of the laws does
> > not sentence one to hell. One obeys the laws because that is
> > required to live a Jewish life on earth, in this life, for this
> > life.
>
> > While the concept of an afterlife does exist for Jews, it does
> > not have the emphasis that it does for Christians.
>
> Well, the emphasis on an afterlife has varied over time and
> between different groups of Jews. And that's true even if
> you don't consider Xtians to be a Jewish sect.
>
> Certainly, I don't hear much from any modern strain of
> Judaism emphasizing an afterlife.
The fact that Judaism is, as you have stated, less exercised than
Evangelical Christianity is about the Resurrection could possibly be the
reason why it is less common to find believers in Judaism baulking at
theistic evolution the way Evangelical Christians frequently do. The key
question I always have to Evangelicals who believe theistic evolution is if
God needed all those billions of years to make the first creation, then how
many will he need to make the new one?
That's very central to the reason why I, for one, cannot accept theistic
evolution, even accepting leeway on metaphors in Genesis. If I turn the
afterlife and the Resurrection into a metaphor, it strikes at the very
ground of what I believe in, and I might as well not bother believing
anything.
In Love,
Shalom,
Constance Vigilant
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