What does it mean to say that God "used evolution" to create the world? Is Darwin's theory of evolution compatible with belief in God? And even if Darwin's theory could be reconciled with religious belief, do we need to do so? Is the theory well established scientifically? ...
belief inGod’s justice requiredolam haba, a world to come, described asgan eden, the Garden of Eden. The sages also recognized a place of everlasting torment calledgehinom. The name comes from a valley just south of Jerusalem
BELOW ARETHEONLY 3 BELIEF SETS IN OUR UNIVERSE. WHICH ARE YOU? MONOTHEISTICPOLYTHEISTICNONTHEISTIC Biblically Known as; Also Now Known As; Monothiests must worship YHWH (Those are just generic titles,YHWH is His actual name we are supposed to use.) ...
Even with these nine options, 5% of the 10,976 respondents selected “Other.” Some used the space to give details about how they were or were not raised Jewish or to explain their belief in God or lack thereof. But many respondents indicated self-labels that do not fit into the categori...
Basyouni told me the answer is simple: We share the same God. Duh. “It shows that our book wouldn’t contradict the other books because they come from the same source,” Basyouni said. And the reason the Quran retells the story of Moses and others is because Moses has rights over ...
Saltaire, Fire Island -- a church was borrowed for the High Holy Days -- where she was the cantor and people worshipped in bare feet. My father was a Jew without portfolio: no Hebrew school, no synagogue (until he met my mother), and no belief in God. But he was utterly Jewish ...
Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews...
Rather than alert the Jewish deportees, he let them persist in the belief that they were being taken to a labor camp in Hungary, not to a death camp in Poland. Kastner's Zionist Rescue Committee managed to usurp the political contacts with the Nazis from the official Judenrat which ...
The concept is clearly ridiculous given that the vast majority of Jewish people today have no relationship to the Jews of antiquity other than a religious belief that many adopted relatively recently. This fact alone makes a mockery of the idea that a portion of land in the Middle East ...
Qadar, in Islamic belief, refers to Allah's decreeing of everything that occurs in the universe, based on His prior knowledge and wisdom. It encompasses several fundamental aspects: All-Encompassing Knowledge**: Allah knows all things, from the general to the specific, including His own ...