Is Anyone Here Jewish? I Have a Religious Question?

Does the Jewish religion believe that everyone's soul is immortal,
so that the poor damned will suffer forever? Or, does the Jewish
religion believe that the damned will attain nonexistence in Hell?


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Michael A. Pereira wrote:
> Does the Jewish religion believe that everyone's soul is immortal,
> so that the poor damned will suffer forever? Or, does the Jewish
> religion believe that the damned will attain nonexistence in Hell?
>
>
> http://community.webtv.net/mpereira/TheSecretsofthe

This is something I wondered about years ago. I used to talk with a
group of Jewish people a lot, but I never converted.

There is no definitive answer. Different sects of Judaism believe
differently. I was involved with a group of Karaite Jews, and even for
them, they had different views. The Karaite Jews reject the Talmud.
Some Jews only follow the Torah, and reject the later books.

This has more information about the Karaite beliefs:
http://www.karaite-korner.org/

Christianity seems to add a lot more about Hell.

Judaism generally emphasizes the 613/615 commandments that men and women
are supposed to keep in the Torah, to enjoy and prosper. However the
Torah is flawed, if you take into account Jeremiah (a later book).

This all reminds me of this article I wrote:
http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/tmp/Jeremiah.txt

I personally believe that hell is not a place of torture for eternity.
But rather reliving, and experiencing until you learn. Even God didn't
destroy Lucifer or Satan, or even Cain after he killed Abel.


George

On Feb 18, 2:49 pm, mpere...@webtv.net (Michael A. Pereira) wrote:
> Does the Jewish religion believe that everyone's soul is immortal,
> so that the poor damned will suffer forever? Or, does the Jewish
> religion believe that the damned will attain nonexistence in Hell?
>
> http://community.webtv.net/mpereira/TheSecretsofthe

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/vi...er=I&artid=118

Thank you very much for your answers.
To perish and to be destroyed means nonexistence. When my foot has
the circulation gone from it and I say it's dead, that means that it has
no feeling in it. It can't feel pain or anything.
I saw in one of the references that in the world of the dead there
is also "no consciousness". Without consciousness you don't feel pain,
you don't feel anything.
Fire and too much heat is frightening, but did you know that the
brain melts at only 114° Farenheit? The 114° has to get into the
brain first, but that's not impossible.
That is called "infinite neuron wall permeability". That which
increases neuron wall permeability is called "narcotic" and it is
anesthetic. I knew a guy who said he had a fever that went above 110°.
He accidently had his arm rested on a steam radiator, got third degree
burns, yet he didn't feel any pain.
Carbon dioxide touching certain nerves in the breathing center are
what make smotheiring uncomfortable; but, beyond a certain proportion of
carbon dioxide in the blood, carbon dioxide becomes anesthetic, no more
discomfort.
The knowledge of the neurotransmitter of the neurons of the
breathing center of the brain is a big secret neither I nor my
associates have been able to find out. When we do we will surely spread
that knolwedge.
There is much to suggest that nonexistence is attainable, but, I
need absolute proof before I'll bet on it.


http://community.webtv.net/mpereira/TheSecretsofthe

There is nothing in the Tora nor anywhere in the books of the Old
Testament that indicate immortaliy of the soul.
In the New Testament it says, "Only He is immortal", referring to
Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity of God.
But, we do need absolute proof of the availablilty of eternal
nonexistence before we bet on it.