Wait, I just read a little. Do Jewish people have a spiritual purgatory before being completely spiritually cleansed and free to go? I’m not looking to be religious, but if I had to choose, I definitely prefer that over Christian hell.
Edit: I don’t actually know what i just read. I got so many Reddit sources popping up on my search results and I’m demotivated to find real research.
My understanding of religion is there’s so many sects and shit of everything that I don’t know how anybody can be tricked into thinking “yes, THIS ONE is the truth”
Especially reading about EARLY schisms where, to me, it’s like, huh wow they sound way more right. Like Arianism in early christianity, it’s a “heresy” because some dildos decided “the holy trinity” is how it has to work, but idk, the fucking logic checks out to me. If Jesus was born, there was a time before Jesus, Jesus is separate from and created by God. That makes way more fucking sense to me than “uhhhh they’re actually the same guy somehow uhhhh just trust us, don’t be a heretic” but it doesn’t matter because “mainstream” christianity decided so 1600 years ago
Even the Jews had theological splits with the Samaritans and probably others
Religion frustrates me because I mostly don’t care about it, but I live in a mainly Christian country so I’m forced to run into things about Christianity.
I do think The Good Place is an amazing show, and was hoping Jewish people believe in some version of it. I could kinda support that.
I can’t speak for Jews, but I know the conception Christians have by the time of Dante is WILDLY different to the point of being a completely new invention.
Yes. In fact, not only is that the case, but in the first century CE, it was an open debate in Judaism as to whether there even was any afterlife at all, as documented by both the Christian New Testament (this passage has Jesus, a Pharisee, offering his side on the debate) and Josephus. Among other differences in belief, Sadducees didn’t believe in an afterlife, whereas the Pharisees did (at least to some degree). The conclusion canonized in the Mishnah around 200 CE is that the Torah supports belief in resurrection of the dead.
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Also hell, that thing Jews don’t really believe in, least not in that way.
Wait, I just read a little. Do Jewish people have a spiritual purgatory before being completely spiritually cleansed and free to go? I’m not looking to be religious, but if I had to choose, I definitely prefer that over Christian hell.
Edit: I don’t actually know what i just read. I got so many Reddit sources popping up on my search results and I’m demotivated to find real research.
My understanding of religion is there’s so many sects and shit of everything that I don’t know how anybody can be tricked into thinking “yes, THIS ONE is the truth”
Especially reading about EARLY schisms where, to me, it’s like, huh wow they sound way more right. Like Arianism in early christianity, it’s a “heresy” because some dildos decided “the holy trinity” is how it has to work, but idk, the fucking logic checks out to me. If Jesus was born, there was a time before Jesus, Jesus is separate from and created by God. That makes way more fucking sense to me than “uhhhh they’re actually the same guy somehow uhhhh just trust us, don’t be a heretic” but it doesn’t matter because “mainstream” christianity decided so 1600 years ago
Even the Jews had theological splits with the Samaritans and probably others
Religion frustrates me because I mostly don’t care about it, but I live in a mainly Christian country so I’m forced to run into things about Christianity.
I do think The Good Place is an amazing show, and was hoping Jewish people believe in some version of it. I could kinda support that.
I can’t speak for Jews, but I know the conception Christians have by the time of Dante is WILDLY different to the point of being a completely new invention.
So Christian hell is a newer invention than what the Jewish religion has?
Yes. In fact, not only is that the case, but in the first century CE, it was an open debate in Judaism as to whether there even was any afterlife at all, as documented by both the Christian New Testament (this passage has Jesus, a Pharisee, offering his side on the debate) and Josephus. Among other differences in belief, Sadducees didn’t believe in an afterlife, whereas the Pharisees did (at least to some degree). The conclusion canonized in the Mishnah around 200 CE is that the Torah supports belief in resurrection of the dead.