Ok, I asked a question before regarding the jews going to hell. so are they if they rejected Jesus or aren't they? some of you sound like Jews are the "apple" of God's eye and even if they do reject Jesus, they obide by "moses law" so they might have a chance to get on the narrow path?
2006-06-28 11:41:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most Fundementlist Christians belive that (religious) Jews souls' go to hell if they die without accepting Christ as the savior, just like all non-believers. In the book of Revelation, most "fundies" believe all of the Jews will convert to Christianity just before the Apocolypse.
2006-06-28 11:48:16 · answer #1 · answered by adphllps 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Jews reject Jesus Christ, they will go to hell. When Jesus died, He fulfilled the law and wrote a new covenant to the Jews. This covenant includes Gentiles also. You see, when God gave the Israelites the law, He made a covenant with them that if they kept the law, He would protect them. But the Israelites broke the covenant over and over until He let them be taken captive by the Assyrians and Babylonians. God knew that it was impossible to keep the law, but He wanted to show them and everyone after them that it was impossible to keep on their own strength.
So when God sent His Son Jesus to die on the cross, He fulfilled the law because a huge part of the law was that every time they broke it, they had to make a blood sacrifice. Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice for mankind because He was without sin(because He was God incarnate, which He proved when He rose from the dead). No other man could have been the sacrifice because no one else was perfect, and according to the law, the sacrifice had to be without blemish.
So the new covenant was written in Jesus blood, that if anyone believes in Him as the ultimate sacrifice for their sin, they will have eternal life in heaven with Him instead of burning forever in hell.
Because Jesus made a new covenant, the old covenant is now obsolete.
So I say again, Jews that try to keep the law as a way to earn eternal life will not go to heaven.
All this does not mean that God is finished with the Jews, they still have a big part to play in His Master Plan.
2006-06-28 19:03:45 · answer #2 · answered by IveGotTheAnswer! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the great thing about Christianity -- it offers something for everyone. For example, you can choose to believe in the peace-loving kindhearted Jesus who preached the Sermon on the Mount, or the Avenger Jesus of Revelations -- the choice depends on whether you lean more toward pacifism or violence.
So some Christians can believe the Jews are destined for heaven, and some can believe they're destined for the other place, and they can all be Christians. It's a funny sort of club, isn't it?
2006-06-28 18:49:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Jesus died on the cross, the curtain in the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. This signified that now the only way to come to God was by His son.
Jewish people, since the death of Jesus Christ on the cross...just as anyone else...have to believe in Jesus Christ as their savior to gain entrance to heaven.
That being said, the other posters are correct, there are Jewish people who do believe that Jesus is the Messiah. They are called Messianic, or completed Jews. How joyous these people must be!
2006-06-28 18:58:14 · answer #4 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus will judge, and He knows our hearts. Also, the Jews hearts were hardened before the birth of Christ, at the time of tribulation, their hearts will be softened and they will be sent 144,000, all Jews, to tell them the truth. They will have the chance to believe. Everyone will have the chance, even after death.
I'm christian, but not a fundie, so I could be wrong on what they believe, that's just my take on what the bible actually says. Fundies can be a bit judgmental, so who knows?
2006-06-28 18:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's Jews for Jesus too
if regular Jews are the chosen people and abide by Moses' Law sure they got a chance, maybe the best chance
2006-06-28 18:47:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fundamentalists, well,
1- you have believe Jesus is your Lord & Savoir
2- You have to be born again
3- They're the only ones going to Heaven
That leaves me out, I was only born once, good enough for me. And thank you Lord, I'm not one of them, so according to them, I better just stay here a really long time, cause, this all there is for me.
I attend church, Methodist, I teach adult sunday school. I lead the Peace w/ justice & social concerns commities.
2006-06-28 19:03:16 · answer #7 · answered by amom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweet dear the Jews are Gods chosen people if if they did reject Christ. It take Loving Christ and and loving one another, but we can go to hell to dear. Just going to Church on Sunday does not give you a ticket in to Heaven there is much more to it than that talk to your pastor if you go to Church he can give you the low down on everything you need.
God still Loves the Jews
2006-06-28 18:55:18 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Clean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jews before the start of the new church were saved under moses' law, if they lived under it. The ones living after, are saved if they're christians....well, I don't believe any of it, but that's the belief.
2006-06-28 18:45:25 · answer #9 · answered by merlin_steele 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really do think that is a case of Old Religion and Young religion.
I am no longer required by the school board to tell of the old testament.
WAS 2000 A TURNING POINT.
What are your children taught pf religion?
OLD or NEW Testament?
2006-06-28 18:46:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋