Ancient and Modern Idolatry (Torah, paradise, believe, Holy Spirit)

[alannaor]

What is the difference between the Egyptian idolatry in the Pharaonic
period and that of Christianity in our days?
Let’s think it over carefully. What is the main difference? The humandevised
idols which the Egyptians worshipped and bowed down to are
also worshipped by the Christians in our times.
We can be more forgiving of the Pharaohs because they served
their idols in the cradle of history and culture, at a time when the
entire world served idols. However, now, thousands of years later,
the Christians continue the same adulation to idols and icons.
Their shame and disgrace should be sevenfold. The Rambam writes
explicitly the Thirteen Articles of Faith in paragraph 3:
“I believe with complete faith that the blessed Creator does not have a
body, and no physical qualities pertain to him. He can not be likened
to any image.”
Gentlemen, why are you continuing to mislead your believers? In
our world, there is only one way for non-Jews to merit the Next
World and enter Paradise and that is by worshipping in the way that
G-d commanded, i.e. by fulfilling and observing the Seven Noahide
commandments that He commanded you in the holy Torah, the Torah
of the Jewish people.
I am writing this as the son of a Jewish mother born to an illustrious
chassidic dynasty, and a British non-Jewish father (albeit a
Righteous of the Nations who saved my mother from the terror of the
Holocaust). The following are the 7 Noahide commandments as they
appear in Genesis and the Book of Jeremiah.
Great rabbis including Maimonides have formulated them, and
they appear in Jewish classics such as Me’am Lo’ez and the Book
of Chinuch (at the end), and in the Bible commentary of Rabeinu
Bechayai (Genesis 2):
1) Do not worship idols
2) Do not murder
3) Do not commit adultery
4) Do not steal
5) Appoint for yourselves judges and law enforcers
6) Do not blaspheme G-d
7) Do not eat a limb from a living animal.
N.B. All these commandments apply to all gentiles and if they
fulfill them out of obedience to G-d, they are called the Righteous
of the Nations and will merit Paradise. (Quote from Me’am Lo’ez).

A Book of Poems

Alan Naor

[Michael Way]

Originally Posted by alannaor

What is the difference between the Egyptian idolatry in the Pharaonic
period and that of Christianity in our days?
Let’s think it over carefully. What is the main difference? The humandevised
idols which the Egyptians worshipped and bowed down to are
also worshipped by the Christians in our times.
We can be more forgiving of the Pharaohs because they served
their idols in the cradle of history and culture, at a time when the
entire world served idols. However, now, thousands of years later,
the Christians continue the same adulation to idols and icons.
Their shame and disgrace should be sevenfold. The Rambam writes
explicitly the Thirteen Articles of Faith in paragraph 3:
“I believe with complete faith that the blessed Creator does not have a
body, and no physical qualities pertain to him. He can not be likened
to any image.”
Gentlemen, why are you continuing to mislead your believers? In
our world, there is only one way for non-Jews to merit the Next
World and enter Paradise and that is by worshipping in the way that
G-d commanded, i.e. by fulfilling and observing the Seven Noahide
commandments that He commanded you in the holy Torah, the Torah
of the Jewish people.
I am writing this as the son of a Jewish mother born to an illustrious
chassidic dynasty, and a British non-Jewish father (albeit a
Righteous of the Nations who saved my mother from the terror of the
Holocaust). The following are the 7 Noahide commandments as they
appear in Genesis and the Book of Jeremiah.
Great rabbis including Maimonides have formulated them, and
they appear in Jewish classics such as Me’am Lo’ez and the Book
of Chinuch (at the end), and in the Bible commentary of Rabeinu
Bechayai (Genesis 2):
1) Do not worship idols
2) Do not murder
3) Do not commit adultery
4) Do not steal
5) Appoint for yourselves judges and law enforcers
6) Do not blaspheme G-d
7) Do not eat a limb from a living animal.
N.B. All these commandments apply to all gentiles and if they
fulfill them out of obedience to G-d, they are called the Righteous
of the Nations and will merit Paradise. (Quote from Me’am Lo’ez).

A Book of Poems

Alan Naor

What you are saying is simply not Biblical. Neither Jews or Gentiles can ever merit 'the next world.' It is only by grace through faith in Christ Jesus that we are eternally saved. No one is saved by keeping any commandments, including the noahide commandments.

[hljc]

Bringing up a thread which denies the existence of Jesus is out of context in the Christianity Forum at CD ...... See the Holy Spirit of the living God through Jesus Christ says that unless people have the Holy Spirit then there is no protection from God in the afterlife ........

[mensaguy]

This is not an appropriate topic for the Christianity forum.