To: safisoft
Have the Jewish people had friends among men? First, we have but only for a season.
Ok, so finally you say we are not your friends, no one can be friends of the Jews?
There are hundreds of righteous Catholics that went to tremendous personal loss to protect Jews who were being hunted by Nazis, as well as during Stalin's days. We acknowledge their sacrifice and will praise them unceasingly.
But those righteoous people are still not going into heaven because they're not descended from Abraham, as per what you believe? correct?
139 posted on
05/12/2009 1:35:18 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
To: Cronos
But those righteoous people are still not going into heaven because they're not descended from Abraham, as per what you believe? correct?
Judaism does not speak of "heaven" as the destination of the righteous, nor of "hell" as the destination of the wicked, which is why I noted the irony. It is "Jews" that are condemned to "hell" by the luminaries of Christian theology.
As for what Judaism believes regarding Gentiles, you can read it. It is found in Isaiah, particulary in Isaiah 2. Israel is a light to the nations - to draw them to the Almighty. Read Romans 11, and you can see it played out. You see, the "church" got it backwards: Jews don't become "Christians" - but rather, through faith, Gentiles are joined to the olive tree of Israel.
To answer to your question, "G-d is not willing that any should perish..."
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