Jews....Serious question?

Question

I have heard that jews dont believe in hell, so what are the teachings as far as what happens to a soul after death. Since you dont believe in jesus do you believe that there is going to be an "antichrist" of some sort before the end of time? This is a serious respectful questions, so please respond in the same manner.:)

Answer 1

There is virtually no dogma in Judaism, and basically none about the afterlife. While we all agree that humans possess an imortal soul, we don't agree on what happens to it after death. In fact, we don't think about it much. What our religion teaches is that we have to work at making the best of this life, and being good people here. G-d must not want us to worry about the world to come because He didn't reveal much about it in the Torah or through the prophets. As for the ideas that Jews have, for the little significance they represent, some Jews believe in something like incarnation, others believe in heaven, and some believe that the dead sleep waiting for the Messiah to come. But, like I said, we don't think about it much.

As for the anti-christ, we certainly don't believe in that. We also don't believe in a devil that is force for evil. That kind of dualism is considered pagan. Instead, we see evil more as the result of people disobeying G-d. It's sort of a vacuum rather than a force.

Satan does appear in the scriptures, but he's not the enemy of G-d. He sort of antagonises people to help G-d find out if they have the resolve to follow G-d's will. But he's not some evil guy who forces you to do bad things.

Answer 2

i know your question is for Jews but as a non jew i also do not believe in the christain translations of the hebrew and greek words were they came up with hell! They translated meaning incorretly by ignorance or on purpose!

There are three words that have been translated and lumped together as Hell, but each are distinctly different from one another. These mistranslations were the result of "No Spiritual Understanding" on the part of Universal Roman and other christopagan translators that believed in being tormented in hell fire when you die. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
So let's set the record straight, and see just exactly what these three words (actually four) really mean.



"Hades" (or "Sheol") is simply the "Grave" or a "Resting place of the physically human dead." "No Torment here!"


Then there is "Tartarus" or "The Pit" which is a place where Satan and his demons can be isolated (no humans). "No Torment here, either!"


Finally, there is "Gehenna" or "The Lake of Fire" which doesn't exist yet, but will exist sometime after the end of the millennium at the time of the "Great White Throne Judgment" and the "Second Death". Again "No Torment!" There is simply no real evidence in Scripture or otherwise that supports that human beings will be tormented forever, but simply burned up permanently (permanently IS forever). In order to be tormented forever, a human being would have to be immortal, and in order to be immortal, a human being would have to be "Saved," and if a human being is "Saved," then that person would not be sent to Hell or Eternal Torment in the first place. There is NO SUCH THING as an IMMORTAL SOUL that exists in MORTAL Man. Yahweh will not give immortality to sinners!

Answer 3

Just as Angelz said, they go by the Old Testament therefore they are still waiting for the Messiah. But, they will believe the antichrist to be the Messiah during the 1st 3 1/2 yrs of the tribulation period, b/c of the false peace treaty that will come into play with Israel. Then at the beginning of the 2nd half of the 3 1/2 yrs that's when Israel will realize that Jesus Christ already came and that He is the true Messiah. The antichrist will break his covenant with Israel and pronounce himself as god and demand all to worship him as god.

The Jews believe that Jesus Christ is a great prophet, but nothing more. They don't believe that Jesus Christ fulfills the Old testament scriptures, b/c even God himself said that they were going to be blinded as a whole from the truth. They expected the Messiah to come down in all His Glory to rule as King of Jerusalem. But Christ came, stripping Himself of all His Glory...being a servant, in a humble like manner.

Answer 4

There is no dogma in Judaism -- ask two Jews and you'll get three opinions. Many Jews think that the soul is reincarnated into another body. Many Jews believe that we will be resurrected here on earth after the "messiah" brings peace on earth and returns it to a state of perfection. Many Jews believe that the messiah is a metaphor for "peace on earth." Here is a website with many other "beliefs."

http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm#Resurrection

Judaism places very little emphasis on the afterlife because our Bible has nothing to say about it. Some Jews have borrowed Christian views of the afterlife. "Belief" plays no part in Judaism -- our actions determine who we are, not beliefs. We are punished or rewarded here on earth for our actions and have faith that God will deal with us accordingly in the afterlife, if there is one....

We find holiness in Bible study itself. Group study of the Torah is thought to be an encounter with God.
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Answer 5

No, Jews do not believe in heaven or hell. Instead Jews believe that once you are dead, you are no more, and there is no part of you (except for the physical, of course) that still remains. This is not to say that the Jewish perspective on death is completely set in stone, because anyone can believe what they want.

Answer 6

Something that many people do not know is that there were/are many different sects of jews. You hear them referred to in the NT. Some that believed in angels and some that do not. One that I really find interesting is there were atheist jews in those days but they still lived according to the law. Many xtians would be very surprised to learn about what the Christ times jews believed. I hope this add a piece to your answers.

Answer 7

judaism has very little dogma about the afterlife. as long as it does not contradict the torah, you can believe whatever you want. and since the torah says next to nothing about the afterlife, that leaves a lot of room for interpretation. lots of sages have discussed the afterlife and come up with various theories about it which are the most common. some of them are very mystical, some of them are very traditional, some of them are just whacky. resurrection of the dead, gan eden vs gehenna, reincarnation... pick whatever floats your boat. but anything along the lines of an anti-christ though would not be an acceptable jewish belief, due to our being strictly monotheistic. no exceptions to that particular rule.

Answer 8

The Jewish concept of 'hell', if you will, if you will, is quite different than the Christian concept. As Judaism considers that, with very few exceptions, that no one is wholly righteous or wholly evil, each person will be judged on his or her merits. After that judgment, the person is 'cleansed' though a process that no one describes as being exceedingly pleasant. But this process lasts no more than one year.

For one who is completely evil, for who there is no possibility of redemption, after the year...that soul is simply destroyed. That is true hell...non-existence.

Answer 9

As stated by two other answers Judaism concerns itself little with the afterlife.
but this site should give you the basics.

http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm

as for the Messianic age, yes we do believe that at some point in history it will happen, after all where do you think you got the concept from?

as for how it will come about know one knows for sure.

Answer 10

I think the question is valuable and it hold a lot more water of what we can apparently see perceived?, Jew's are the direct descendants, not of Satan it self, I'm sure, but, Jewish living energy was emanate by the same energies that Satan will pursue to hide from God, while God was trying to free the positive energies from matter's, Substances of Matter's and elements, this as many elements will fall into the matter that Satan it-self will make boil because the eat, eating energies where the ones use for this process, to confuse and deceived many from fallowing God, I'm sure the nature of the Jew's Living energy, is from such energies eating energies. Jesus said to then at some point, "you don't know my Father, the only Father you know is Satan". although Jesus has come, in control of such eat and fire, they where unwilling to believed in him as the Son of God, because Jesus will not give then material wealth by offer then Spiritual wealth.