I am interested if the word "goyim" or "gentile", which means pagan, is used by Jews it in this particular meaning with regards to non-Jews.
I do not mean to hurt anyone and if I do I apologize in advance.
Many thanks to all those who answers.
2006-12-25 12:42:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. A non-Jew who lives a moral life, according to the seven Noachide laws, is considered perfectly fine the way s/he is.
Gentile, as far as I know, means something like "others". Thus, Mormons also call outsiders "gentiles" (which means that in Utah, you can be a Jewish gentile...)
Goy (or goyim, in the plural) literally means "nation". In fact, in the Bible the Jews themselves are often refered to as a "goy". It only came to mean "non-Jew" much later.
2006-12-25 13:13:26 · answer #1 · answered by Melanie Mue 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In scripture the Gentiles were everyone that was not a Jew.
Paul was called to take the message that God had sent to the Jews and extend it to the Gentiles.
Why would that be?
It is because God called them to Him and they knew Him not.
God sent His Son for them, and they knew Him not.
He charged His Son to bring the message of heaven to all men, and His people had His Son crucified. But God had planned that His Son would die for the sins of all men, not just the Jews.
He then called Saul, and renamed him Paul, and told him that He had chosen Paul to take the gospel to the Gentiles.
God's hand was in all this at all times.
2006-12-25 20:54:48 · answer #2 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Jewish people do not consider non Jews pagans.
2006-12-25 21:57:18 · answer #3 · answered by Lisa B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no gentile doesn't mean pagan it just means people who are non jews damn i'm agnostic and i know that
2006-12-25 21:08:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some Jew do and some don't.
Just depends on the specific Jewish person's own beliefs.
They are not uniform in thought and practice like most people in most religions.
2006-12-25 20:44:20 · answer #5 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do Jews think that all non-Jews are pagans?
NOT at all.
Much respect is shown other faiths!
Jewish People have "CLASS" !
2006-12-25 20:46:12 · answer #6 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Goy means 'non Jew" goyim means "many non-Jews."
Neither term means "pagan."
2006-12-25 22:29:14 · answer #7 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile
2006-12-25 20:45:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no
2006-12-25 21:01:07 · answer #9 · answered by copestir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't.
2006-12-25 20:51:34 · answer #10 · answered by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋