Their God communicates to believers through prophets and rewards good deeds while also punishing evil. Most Jews (with the exception of a few groups) believe that their Messiah hasn’t yet come—but will one day. Jewish people worship in holy places known as synagogues, and their spiritual le...
Further, Paul explains that because it was declared from On High to be "unlawful" to reveal to the faith-based believers the Spiritual Gospel of Christ and the Mysteries of the Kingdom (see Gnostic Spiritual Dilemma), there are two doctrines -- i.e., one for the immature congregation of...
The second opposition came from acculturated Jews in western Europe andNorth Americawho believed that Jews are part of largersecularpolities and that their role in them should be that of a communion of like-minded religious believers, similar to that of theCatholicandProtestantdenominations. ...
This agreement stipulates that their God will communicate with believers through prophets, and promises rewards for good deeds while also threatening punishment for bad actions. Who is the father of Judaism? For Jews, Abraham is seen as the Ancestor of all Jewish people. He fathered Isaac and ...
"Debates about whether non-believers can be ‘good Jews’ are irrelevant. [There is a kind of disbelief that] is the rejection of the specific rituals enjoined by Judaism. But these unbelievers busy themselves with nearly superhuman efforts in defending the State of Israel, in creating Jewish ...
(Joshua 24:15). In Israel theethicalaspect was as important as the exclusiveness of their one god; the prophets stressed the ethical elements of an essentiallyexclusiveGod. The God of Israel was a jealous god who forbade his believers toworshipother gods. In this respect he differed from ...
8:65 —“O Prophet!Rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers.” 9:5 —“But when the forbidden months are past,then fight and slay...
"Sabbateanism [Satanism, Cabala] is the matrix of every significant movement to have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to Reform Judaism, to the earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism.The Sabbatean "believers" felt that they were champions of a new worl...
and the eschatological expectation—is safeguarded from all the doubts that either philosophical speculation or the rival religious doctrines ofChristianityandIslamcould evoke in the minds of Jewish believers. Kabbala, already at the stage it had reached at Gerona, may be said to be a significant ...
The second opposition came from acculturated Jews in western Europe andNorth Americawho believed that Jews are part of largersecularpolities and that their role in them should be that of a communion of like-minded religious believers, similar to that of theCatholicandProtestantdenominations. ...