Author Topic: Is there a such thing as a "Good" Jew? (Read 5786 times)

brainglitch · « **Reply #25 on:** May 05, 2013, 06:57:55 PM »

Indeed. It is a very good example. Quite surprising someone does not like this. At least they should explain why?

brainglitch · « **Reply #26 on:** May 05, 2013, 06:59:01 PM »

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What about Jews who convert to the Catholic Faith?

They are no longer Jews, then.

But isn't there a blood and ethnicity component to being Jєωιѕн? I was wondering because I know some people who are Catholics that used to be Jews and I was curious as to whether they would still be considered Jєωιѕн or not.

No, Judaism is a religion. Hence why you have American Jews, Polish Jews, Russian Jews, etc.

I still think Judaism is a race. There has to be some people today who are descendants of the tribes of Israel. Those people I would say are Jews by race. Then there are converts after that.

Do you believe those people can be saved if they convert?

Traditional Guy 20 · « **Reply #27 on:** May 05, 2013, 07:18:41 PM »

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No, Judaism is a religion. Hence why you have American Jews, Polish Jews, Russian Jews, etc.

Uh no Judaism is not just a "religion."

It is a race. It is a group of people that are ethnically the same.

brainglitch · « **Reply #28 on:** May 05, 2013, 07:36:38 PM »

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No, Judaism is a religion. Hence why you have American Jews, Polish Jews, Russian Jews, etc.

Uh no Judaism is not just a "religion."

It is a race. It is a group of people that are ethnically the same.

So if they convert, do you think they are Catholic? It would seem a bit contradictory to call them "Catholic Jews".

InfiniteFaith · « **Reply #29 on:** May 05, 2013, 08:04:52 PM »

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Do you think there might be Jews out there that fall into the category of Baptism of Desire thus giving them a chance for Salvation? I imagine if there are then there would be few of them. Even if there are I still think we should deport them to Israel for the sake of Christianity. What do you think?

1) No Father of the Church or saint ever taught that a Pagan, Jew, Schismatic, or heretic could be saved by implicit faith in a God that rewards

2) No Father of the Church ever taught that a Pagan, Jew, Schismatic, or heretic could be saved by implicit baptism of desire.

3) I can't even remember now what one Father of the Church taught that a catechumen with explicit desire to be baptized could be saved. And please don't say it was St. Ambrose or St. Augustine.

4) Some Fathers did teach baptism of blood, but I never heard of any examples of BOB martyrs in the last 1800 years (If there really ever were any. There is no way to know that they were not baptized)

“We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared Him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes (Jn. 1:9). Those, therefore, who lived according to reason [logos] were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus, and others like them . . . those who lived before Christ but did not live according to reason were wicked men, and enemies of Christ, and murderers of those who did live according to reason, whereas those who lived then or who live now according to reason are Christians. Such as these can be confident and unafraid” (Justin Martyr, First Apology 46).