(May 17, 2023 at 3:33 pm)KerimF Wrote:(May 17, 2023 at 3:12 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: You know Jesus was crucified for not following Jewish rules yet you said that the Jews have no rules to follow.
Pick a side, you fraud, any side.
I said it after hearing that Jews are not supposed to be punished after death and no one mentioned there are earthly Jewish punishments.
Doesn't this mean there have no real rules to obey?!
There ARE real rules to obey - the mitzvot -, but the payoff for obedience is to live a good earthly life (there's a lot of ambiguity about what constitutes 'heaven' in a Jewish afterlife).
It took Christians and those plagiarizing Muslims to come up with the notion that not following the rules means you have to be punished forever. In Judaism, the punishment is to be lousy in the here-and-now, which seems punishment enough.
Boru
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