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by Anonymous on March 25th, 2007

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If you break one of God's 10 commandments, are you doomed to hell?

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  • by TShilo12 on May 11th, 2008

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    OK, Jew here, horning in on the Christian boards. (Tit for tat, I daresay, since Christians are constantly pretending to know all about Judaism whenever someone asks a question about it)...

    You may not like my response, and the really self-righteous supercessionist Christians here will really hate it, but I may as well give you a response from a Jewish perspective...

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    To start with, simply following Christianity is a violation of several of the 10 commandments...

    [2] Have no other gods before God--which means you can't set up any kind of intercessor between humanity and the Almighty. Take your pick...Jesus, Mary and the Saints (for Catholics and eastern Orthodox), these are intercessors, explicitly forbidden by the 2nd commandment.

    [4] "Remember [and Guard] the Sabbath and keep it holy" is also violated by Christianity (at least by the vast majority), ever since the Christians ordained that anyone who observed the Sabbath could be put to death, or at the very least expelled from the country (as happened in numerous fiefdoms and empires throughout Europe...even before Christianity was founded, so this is a hatred Christianity inherited from its pagan roots).

    [9] "Do not bear false witness against your neighbor" is a commandment whose violation is the very foundation of Christianity, since it is only through lying about Judaism and Jews that Christianity ever became anything.

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    That said... the 10 Commandments were given to the Jews. If you're not Jewish, you're not bound to follow them. If you want to be a righteous gentile, you are so bound, but if you believe you're "granted" righteousness by fiat of saying you believe that someone killing a Jew [Jesus] has made you clean before God, then you're not really concerned with what it takes to be righteous according to the Bible.

    Beyond that, ... "Hell" is a Christian adaptation of the Greeks' "Hades" embellished by a few other pagan mythologies. It has nothing to do with Judaism. In Judaism, the righteous, Jewish or not, have a place in the World to Come. The unrighteous may go through a form of purgatory, according to some philosophers (although Judaism really isn't obsessed with the afterlife like Christianity, Islam, and some forms of paganism are)...while the truly wicked simply perish--they are snuffed out of existence, and eventually, from memory. The closest you come in Judaism to "burning in a lake of fire" is that the bodies of executed criminals were, in ancient times, burned in the garbage dump outside the city walls, along with the rest of the city's trash...no everlasting torment--just everlasting non-existence.

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