Jesus said to fear God who can put you in Hell.

Solomon said the begining of wisdon is fear of God.

God commands us to LOVE HIM because He is not always loveable.

Deuteronomy 30:15 Choose life

Jun 21, 2009 -- 10:51PM, LeahOne wrote:

: ))  But Happy - GOD isn't going to ask you what Jesus or Solomon said:  He's going to want you to explain your own understanding of His Word to him.

As a Jew, I have ample word in Scripture that GOD loves the righteous of all nations and belief systems.

And of course as everyone should know, whatever Jesus said is generally about as meaningful to Jews as anything the Buddha or anyone else's 'prophet' had to say. Especially when it's about nonJewish concepts like a place of eternal torment (Hell)....

This is a muti faith site,so Jesus is important to some. We need to know what rules to follow, so we look to scripture from Moses, Solomon, etc for an understanding of God's will in our life. If we can make up our own rules then Hitler would be right.

There is definately a Hell in Jewish Tanack. See Isaiah 66:24 or Daniel 12:2

The idea of a punishment of eternal torment is not something central to Judaism.

We don't act 'to be saved from Hell' - that's not in the literature very often.  We are to act to please YHVH, to follow Torah, to be holy unto YHVH - but I don't see 'Hell' as a factor.  It certainly wasn't/isn't/won't be for me.

Heaven and Hell are not places you go to but are a state of mind and life God puts you into either in this life or your next one.

Jesus said the Kingdom of God is at hand.

Moses knew after he didn't agree with Joshua and Caleb and take Israel into the Promised Land, he also would have to wander for 40 years without his reward.

The commandment is to love God, because He isn't always loveable.

Jun 29, 2009 -- 8:01AM, appy20 wrote:

I love my pets more than the Biblical God loves people.  That is why I don't believe in the Biblical God.  The God I know is radically different but He is not Christian.

I do believe the God I know loves all people.  I am unable to love all people and don't think that I am not aware of how that disappoints God.  God loves even the unlovable because God understands WHY people are unlovable.  He knows that not all unlovability is changeable by the person.  Only He can judge what we choose and what we are burdened with.  We are unable to get that about people.  That is why I believe Jesus tells us not to judge because we are lousy at it.   We want to judge/love without facts.  Sometimes, the results of the facts are not pretty and we can't get past that.

Those who love their pets, train them to make them more enjoyable, such as don't bite, don't destroy shoes, potty train,etc. This is what God does with us.

God does want us to judge so we can have good peer presure. The command is to not be unequally yoked.

My dog thinks I am God!