• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    As a Jewish person I find that absolutely hilarious. For over two thousand years the foundation of Judaism has been the exact opposite. Nearly everything in the torah has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and then we fight over who has the best interpretations (of course some things can be viewed on a literal level but those are interpreted on multiple other levels as well). Also despite Christians stealing nearly everything from us Hell isn’t one of them, I have no idea where they got that (probrally the pagans).

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      8 hours ago

      Christianity is fear, and Judaism is clever loopholes. Fear you will go to hell versus you’ll get into the kingdom eventually, one way or another.

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      11 hours ago

      While my wife and I were evangelical Christians in college we attended a few Jewish events for part of a religious study class she was taking. That is definitely what stood out to me, too. While it’s difficult to really make definitive statements about Christianity as a whole because it’s so varied, the type we were familiar with from our Bible belt upbringing was definitely more about a pretty literal interpretation about everything. It was very fascinating to learn that Jewish people are much more practical about their interpretation. For context, growing up I’d say a good bit of the people in my church viewed remarrying after divorce as adultery because marriage is meant to be forever.

      One thing I remember finding fascinating was like the layers of annotations on scripture. Like people would annotate annotations with their responses and stuff.

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        10 hours ago

        The Talmud, which is basically a bunch of Rabbis arguing about what the Torah means, is almost as important as the Torah itself.

        There’s a famous phrase in Jewish culture: two Jews, three opinions.

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      10 hours ago

      It’s been the same with Christianity for most of the 2000 years it has existed. Christians had so many different interpretations they have been split up into splinter groups as early as 30 years after Jesus death.

      Literalism is a pretty new concept, rougthly from the late 19th century.

      If anybody is interested about the history, I can recomend Center Place`s newest video, a progressive church that has a lot of historical and very scholary lectures about Christianity and Judaism (no preaching or converting). Their lectures playlist is a treasure. And I say this as a very much not Christian or Jewish person.

      Here is their video on Literalism

      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 hours ago

        That doesnt sound very similar (or the same), in Judaism while there are many different factions its not only common but encuraged for people within a faction to disagree on interpretation. Jewish schools teach the art of studying torah, understanding torah, interpreting the torah, and then arguing over said interpretations.