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Is according to Jews everything God's will?

Skywalker

Well-Known Member
This is just not true. A judge can suspend a sentence if he/she so chooses.

The Christian view of God being the Savior because God is a just judge who cannot let sin go unpunished is consistent with the Jewish Scriptures. Psalm 139:7-8

Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

According to Jewish Scriptures there is a heaven and a hell, Hell is not described in Daniel as a temporary place and more of a consequence than a punishment.
 

IndigoChild5559

Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
The Christian view of God being the Savior because God is a just judge who cannot let sin go unpunished is consistent with the Jewish Scriptures. Psalm 139:7-8
But God is ALSO merciful. He casts our sins into the sea and remembers them no more.



Daniel 12:2

According to Jewish Scriptures there is a heaven and a hell, Hell is not described in Daniel as a temporary place and more of a consequence than a punishment.[/QUOTE]The Jewish hell, aka gehenna, *IS* TEMPORARY. It is a place of learning, where we are purified in preparation for the resurrection. Truly evil souls are annhilated.
 

ppp

Well-Known Member
Just God: gives laws to Israelites and assigns punishments for them, establishing a just society.
Many of the laws in the Torah are not just. Functional, but not just. One may (or may not) be able to argue that the laws were more just than the surrounding societies of the time, but 'more just' is not the same thing as being just.
 

Skywalker

Well-Known Member
But God is ALSO merciful. He casts our sins into the sea and remembers them no more.



Daniel 12:2

According to Jewish Scriptures there is a heaven and a hell, Hell is not described in Daniel as a temporary place and more of a consequence than a punishment.
The Jewish hell, aka gehenna, *IS* TEMPORARY. It is a place of learning, where we are purified in preparation for the resurrection. Truly evil souls are annhilated.[/QUOTE]

That's because God is the redeemer, who Job mentioned in 19:25.
 

IndigoChild5559

Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
The Old Testament priesthood didn't offer forgiveness of sins-it was a foreshadowing of the coming Messiah.
It was God who offered forgiveness. God at times worked through atonement sacrifices, and at other times worked through straight repentance. But never at any time was it necessary to believe in a coming messiah to receive forgiveness.
 

Skywalker

Well-Known Member
It was God who offered forgiveness. God at times worked through atonement sacrifices, and at other times worked through straight repentance. But never at any time was it necessary to believe in a coming messiah to receive forgiveness.

Job believed in a coming Messiah because he mentioned his redeemer living and there being no mediator between him and God.
 
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