Agreed, Jews believe that you must atone for sins with a sacrifice and that makes you righteous. Jews also don't believe in the soul as an entity separate from the body.
Taking just Genesis, though we have to remember we're talking late bronze age. They were a mesh of Canaanite and Israeli polytheists working towards monotheism. The "Jews" prior to Moses (besides not existing) believed in ritual atonement of sins against their many gods, hence the golden calf. Lot was saved only because of a petition from Abraham and the grace of God.
Taking just Genesis, though we have to remember we're talking late bronze age. They were a mesh of Canaanite and Israeli polytheists working towards monotheism. The "Jews" prior to Moses (besides not existing) believed in ritual atonement of sins against their many gods, hence the golden calf. Lot was saved only because of a petition from Abraham and the grace of God.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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