Many Jewish views differ from the Christian concept of original sin, if it is a Christian concept. The rationalist interpretation of Maimonides seems interesting to me in this context. According to it, Adam possessed all the knowledge he needed before the Fall; he had a share of divine ...
In theologies of the atonement the starting point is often the problem of human sin. While not discounting the importance of the role of sin this article explores the significance of so divine and human suffering for the atonement, with special focus on the biblical texts about God's experience...
摘要: Time, Gastonia, NC 1982; R. Hammer, 'Two Approaches to the Problem of Suffering [Job, Ruth]',Judaism More than most biblical books, more perhaps than any other biblical book, variantopinions is perpetually repeated— no one else on earth can be suffering for that reason....
Judaism gave rise to the defiant man of faith, the man or woman who, like our patriarch Jacob, fights with angels and celestial beings and defeats them. In fact, that is the exact definition of the word Israel: he who fights God and is victorious. A Jew is a child of Abraham, who ...
A lot of these clashes of intuitions have to do with the idea of suffering versus oblivion. In order to explore this further, I asked people on Twitter and Tumblr to answer some survey questions like the following: 1.Would you rather: ...