Hi everybody

[jewscout]

New to the forum and looking to have some good intellectual conversations. Just a little bit about me i'm a college grad with a degree in History and have recently begun a process of converting to Judaism.

 

[Scott1]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Sunstone]

Welcome to the Forums, Jewscout!

 

[Rex]

Why hello, make yourself at home!

 

[robtex]

what is your first name? What religion did you depart and what type of Judism (orthodox, othodox reform or messianic Jew)? Did your accrued knowledge in history affect your decision to convert and if so how?

 

[Master Vigil]

Welcome to the forums.

 

[Green Gaia]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

 

[Lightkeeper]

Welcome to the forum, happy to have you here.

 

[jewscout]

Hey thanks to everyone for the welcome! robtex i'm converting in to the Conservative movement of Judaism and i wasn't a part of any religious group before that. I had always felt like history lended some level of credibility to the stories in the Torah, much of the biblical archeology done in the past few decades have shown that these things may have happened (though i believe in a more mundane way than the actual stories themselves say). But ultimately, like all things in this world, it was a girl that brought me to Judaism.
She helped me to find a home in this faith.

 

[maggie2]

Hi and welcome. Glad you found the forums.

 

[robtex]

But ultimately, like all things in this world, it was a girl that brought me to Judaism.
She helped me to find a home in this faith.

i had a sneaking suspicsion you were gonna say that. I am dating a reform Jew and her parents ask me to convert which is funny cause the religion does not ask so much but I declined..i am happy with UU.

 

[jewscout]

Well i had been on a spiritual journey since my freshman year of college (1999) and hadn't come across one that particularly felt connected to. Honestly i hadn't even looked into judaism at the time. I had dated girls who were religious christians and it never worked out cause i never bought into the whole death on the cross, resurrection, salvation thing. When i started going out with my present gf i had the same apprehension about Judaism as i did with others. But after a few months of dating and my experiences with her and her family i couldn't deny the overwhelming spiritual sensation i was experiencing.
and so here i am.