Christianity
By your logic that the giving of the Torah is something we would rationally expect after establishing the existence of God and therefore it makes sense to believe in it despite the ambiguity of the corresponding evidence. Why doesn’t the same logic apply to Christian doctrine where we also expect the Messiah to come (from several sources in the Bible, and even from the Torah itself) and we have a certain level of evidence such as eyewitnesses to confirm the resurrection of Jesus, in addition to his teaching and such, why do you still dismiss it?
In other words, if you were born a Christian, wouldn’t you use this exact logic to justify your theology, and if so, on what basis do you still reject it?
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How can Christianity and Judaism coexist? Is there a flexible theology that manages to reconcile the two? After all, they negate each other. Unless what is meant is ”rape of the merciful fatherland” and that God does not expect a person to leave the landscape of his homeland. But then there is still a certain religion that upholds the truth and another religion that is only exempt from punishment, and it cannot be said that ”they are in the same place in the heavens”.
I would ask a shorter question: Is there a theology?
That is, what is there in Christianity that you cannot live with? The Trinity? First, it does not exist in all types of Christianity. Second, it also exists in Judaism: Kove Yisrael and Orita Chad (and in the name of the Ari they said: that is literally true). It is all a question of interpretation and philosophizing. Not to mention the human form of the deity in Kabbalah.
When a Jew looks at Christianity, it is easy for him to dismiss everything as nonsense, and vice versa. With a more philosophizing view, you can always find interpretations and explanations. I mentioned here in the past a ridiculous chapter that brings the speaker's comments on the New Testament. Delusional. Like a child who perceives the other as having contradictions and errors, when he himself has a thousand times more. Children fail to put themselves in the other person's shoes and see everything from their own perspective, black and white.
There are things in Judaism that Christians cannot live with, and vice versa. First of all, in the debate about whether God left the Jews or not. Is there a view that can accommodate that he left and did not leave us at the same time? Second, according to Christianity, we follow the father who determines the religion, and according to Judaism, we follow the mother, so it is impossible to follow the historical lineage and determine who is Jewish/Christian and who is not.
Of course, we need to add to this the discussion of whether the Torah's commandments are relevant or not. After all, Christians observe almost nothing of our Torah (and do not study it). So how can we determine that we will be in the same position in the heavenly realm if we observe the words of the Torah and they do not?
Yes, Christians also eat pork and do not observe the Sabbath. I see no problem with the claim that the exclusive discourse is for internal needs. What's more, Christians don't have to observe the halacha according to our system either. What's more, at least in my understanding, God has indeed almost completely abandoned us and the land in general.
There is a zero-sum game here, either God commanded not to eat pork and to keep the Sabbath or commanded to go to church, etc. I don't know of a theory that reconciles the two commandments together. It sounds like empty words. God may have left in the aspect of private providence, but He did not leave in the commandment of keeping the commandments (for either party), otherwise we would not keep the commandments.
The problem is in the realm of logic and information. So here is some new information: God does not require Christians not to eat pork. And another argument worth considering: Perhaps each population group has its own way of worshiping God.
That's it. I've exhausted it.
Full of exclusive words intended for internal use…
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