In Judaism angels are generally held to have no free will whatsoever -- they are creatures (and puppets) of God, created for a single task. (Being Judaism, of course, there are long discussions about this and there are rabbis that disagree).
There's also no concept of a Fall as such. Nor any eternal damnation (to most Jews, I suspect, the entire concept of an eternity in Hell is not only weird, it's sick). But we also don't really spend a lot of time worrying about the afterlife, whatever it is.
" This is the reason why Christians, ordinary good decent Christians who already know what The Parishioner has stated in the quote, do sometimes try to bring non-believers into the faith; because to believe as a fact that God created the whole universe is to believe as a fact that God is God for the whole universe, and that it were better that other people should know this fact."
My understanding of Christian belief is somewhat limited, but is it not the Great Commission, to go out and evangelize and bring people into the church? I mean, that's part of what they're supposed to do, right? (Fortunately, most of them take "no" for an answer -- I've only who didn't)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2014-08-04 11:25 am (UTC)There's also no concept of a Fall as such. Nor any eternal damnation (to most Jews, I suspect, the entire concept of an eternity in Hell is not only weird, it's sick). But we also don't really spend a lot of time worrying about the afterlife, whatever it is.
" This is the reason why Christians, ordinary good decent Christians who already know what The Parishioner has stated in the quote, do sometimes try to bring non-believers into the faith; because to believe as a fact that God created the whole universe is to believe as a fact that God is God for the whole universe, and that it were better that other people should know this fact."
My understanding of Christian belief is somewhat limited, but is it not the Great Commission, to go out and evangelize and bring people into the church? I mean, that's part of what they're supposed to do, right? (Fortunately, most of them take "no" for an answer -- I've only who didn't)