Understanding Jewish Beliefs on Salvation
As a, a-a-as a Jew, we w-- I mean, just Jewish belief, we don't believe that
you have to be Jewish in order to get into heaven.
It's a kind of a distinction between Judaism and, and many other religions.
In fact, when people try to convert to Judaism,
we tell people not to because it
turns out it kinda sucks.
Uh,
a-as, as you may have noticed, it kinda puts a target on your back in a
lot of
different ways. Plus, there are a bunch of onerous rules
that you have to follow,
and so we tell people that you really, like, if y- All you guys h-- If you're not
Jewish, all you have to do is fulfill seven basic rules.
They're called the Noahide Laws. They're expressed in the Book of Genesis.
They're very basic things. Don't kill anybody, please.
Don't do kidnapping.
Don't do theft. Don't, don't eat the flesh of a living animal.
Don't commit sexual immorality. Don't blaspheme, right?
The-these are, believe in God. Like, th-these are, like, the very basics.
If you do those things, you're in heaven, so I mean, why would you possibly wanna
buy into a system that requires six hundred
and thirteen laws and a wide variety
of restrictions?
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