Question

At the end of Maimonides’ introduction to the chapter Chelek, he lists two principles there that seem difficult for your approach and worldview. They are: 1) the tenth principle, which says that God knows everything that is chosen: “He observes and knows our secrets, seeing the end of a matter from its beginning.” 2) the twelfth principle — the messianic era: that the Messiah will come, will not be delayed, and with him redemption will come. From my understanding of your approach, it seems that you do not regard these things as correct, or at least that they are merely tendentious interpretation with no proof for them. Do the things Maimonides writes at the end of his introduction to the chapter Chelek not give you pause? These are his words: “And if for a person one of these principles is corrupted, then he has left the community and denied a fundamental principle, and is called a heretic and an apostate, and one who cuts down the plantings, and they are obligated to hate him and destroy him.”