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Offline fritzkep

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Re: Eschatology: fire, brimstone, and the end of the age
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2008, 07:55:29 pm »
Contemporary rabbinical Judaism is derived from the Pharisees. The other ancient sects that identified themselves as Judaic no longer exist. The Samaritans of course, who still exist, never identified themselves with Judaism.

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Re: Eschatology: fire, brimstone, and the end of the age
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2008, 08:41:53 pm »
Contemporary rabbinical Judaism is derived from the Pharisees. The other ancient sects that identified themselves as Judaic no longer exist. The Samaritans of course, who still exist, never identified themselves with Judaism.



OK.  I wonder why I still hear some Jews say that they don't believe in an afterlife.  I guess that's just them, personally, being Jewish but not really religious.

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Re: Eschatology: fire, brimstone, and the end of the age
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2008, 08:46:07 pm »
Contemporary Jewish thought, even among the Orthodox, does not emphasize the afterlife, but none of the major divisions today would deny it, except for those in groups that think of Judaism more culturally than religiously.

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Re: Eschatology: fire, brimstone, and the end of the age
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2008, 08:47:04 pm »
Great minds.....    :D

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Re: Eschatology: fire, brimstone, and the end of the age
« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2008, 08:07:31 pm »
OK thanks, guys.

That seems a huge rift, though doesn't it?  Two branches of Judaism from two millennia ago believing two different things about a rather important issue and one coming out on top for - it seems - no other reason than they were the ones left standing.

Is it like Christianity, where there were all flavors of Christianity about, Marcionism, Gnosticism, etc, and the one that came out at the end was simply because the head of the most powerful empire at the time 'picked a side' basically and enforced it with laws and violence?