Jewish views of salvation, faith and freedom, How Does a Jew Attain Salvation? – Being Jewish, What is the concept of salvation in Judaism? – Quora, Salvation | religion | Britannica, Salvation from Sin? Salvation is through the Torah. This is the importance of the Torah for a Jew. A Jew has two issues to overcome: heritage (being born a Jew) and the belief that there is no sin nature in man and therefore, man can choose good on his/her own. Jews do not see themselves as sinners by nature.
Judaism has always held that we do not need that sort of salvation, for we are not doomed or damned at birth. We are not doomed or fated to sin. Quite the contrary. The Torah says: “If you do good, won’t there be special privilege? And if you do not do good, sin waits at the door.
Because Judaism is by origin and nature an ethnic religion, salvation has been primarily conceived in terms of the destiny of Israel as the elect people of Yahweh (often refered to as “the Lord”), the God of Israel. It was not until the 2nd century bce that there arose a belief in an afterlife, for which the dead would be resurrected and undergo …
3/6/2009 · As there is no concept of ‘original sin’ in Judaism , there isn’t really any concept of needing to be ‘saved’. You’ll never, ever hear any Jew speak of this, in fact. Judaism teaches that we are all born with a divine spark within us, and that we are born pure and innocent. It is entirely…
