Your post sounds very Jewish. Since Judaism doesn't have a place of eternal torment (i.e. Hell), we don't have a concept of doing good to avoid a bad place. We do good deeds, just for the opportunity to do more good deeds. I agree with you that doing good deeds just for the expectation of a...
It's irrelevant. G-d can't be found in a test tube. I really don't understand why some people keep trying to conflate science with religion. They are two different schools of thought.
Just as science can't measure our souls, neither can it observe or experiment on G-d.
Woot! I'm the exception. When we met, my future wife kept trying to get rid of me. And me, Mr. hint-deaf over here, kept persisting. Now we're at 29 years and going strong.
There is nothing new here. We can admire our athletes, actors, comedians, and other people for the work that they do. But once they start sharing more than that, whether it be their political opinions, sexual preferences, etc, they open themselves up to criticism by the people that disagree.
It seems like it's a 'chicken vs. egg' sort of argument. Did a relationship start when a man talks to a woman, when a women made a nonverbal gesture to a man, when a man noticed and made a move, or what? How is the beginning defined? I'm sure women have signaled to men plenty of times only to...
I don't know if you're correct or not. But I do know that if you're correct, then that canon is not the same as the versions in use today. It's been translated into Greek, into Latin, into English, with no quality control for the past thousand years. Is there any wonder that there are so many...
It's funny. You first say that you don't claim to be anything resembling an authority on these laws. But on your very next sentence, you suddenly know what is plausible and that it is DEFINITELY a violation of the law. All we really know for sure is that you don't like Trump and want him to be...
Oh yeah, the Christian bible is a mess. We've known that since its inception. Heck even Christians have known it is a mess. Father Origen around the year 250 wrote that the Christian bible was full of forgeries.
Ruling on shaving pubic hair
I recently saw a movie that mentioned Taliban actions on pubic hair and wondered if the movie made it up. I found that it does have a basis in truth. Muhammad made a ruling on pubic hair. It is recommended, but not required for everyone to trim it. It is only...
Obviously Judaism has a completely different take on it.
G-d created each of us with the capacity to do evil. The Good is defined as our moral conscience, our inner voice, that lets you know what is right and in accordance with G-d's Laws. The Evil is defined as our selfish nature, our desire...
You didn't say that. You said it never existed prior to 1948.
Then you're missing out.
Israel is part of our blood, our DNA if you will. We have a multi-thousand year connection to that strip of land. It is religious, it is cultural, and it is traditional. Our prayers and thoughts are...
Yes, that will be the cause of many differences between your Christian beliefs and my Jewish ones.
My bible reads:
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, [you shall offer up] a Passover offering to the Lord. On the fifteenth day of this month, a festival [begins]; you shall...
For me, it involves the use of time machines.
Such as: The inventor of a time machine goes back in time and murders both his parents before he was conceived. From whence comes the inventor?
It existed as a country two thousand years ago. Jews have lived continuously in that part of the world for thousands of years. Plus it is extensively referred to in our bible. Israel is completely part of our heritage.