RE: "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us..." should we be grateful?
July 19, 2015 at 5:02 pm
(July 19, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Kaninchen Wrote:(July 19, 2015 at 3:49 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: You made the comment:
Your religious views state you're Jewish.
I'm also making the assumption that by "illness" you're speaking of sin, if not then my bad, that's the only thing that makes sense.
My point was Christianity didn't invent sin, the Jews understood that concept long before Christianity came along.
Ah, you see the reason for the brackets after 'illness' was to indicate the nature of the 'illness' (ie 'doom' - if I'd meant 'sin', I'd have said 'sin'). There is no equivalent in Judaism to the Christian 'original sin, damnation, salvation' system.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
