On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:02:40 +0000 (UTC),
Constance Vigilant <anybodyleft@arthurandersen.com> wrote:
>
> "rich hammett" <bubbarichau@warmmail.com> wrote in message
> news:vv0v56n27pro63@corp.supernews.com...
>> 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.
A pretty flimsy worldview if you ask me. If reality can shatter your
religious beliefs that easily, then isn't it possible that your religious
beliefs are flawed?
--
Aaron Clausen
tao_of_cow/\alberni.net (replace /\ with @)
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