The reforms that Islam needs are: 1) to recognize prior scripture as authentic and authoritative. 2) to recognize Jesus as the Son of God, the Messiah, and as the means of salvation By your logic, does my own religion, Judaism, also need these reforms?
Close.... The reforms that Judaism needs are:
1) To listen to the Old Testament prophets when they told you about Jesus.
2) to recognize Jesus as the Son of God, the Messiah, and as the means of salvation.
But at least Judaism, unlike Islam, recognizes the sanctity of human life, and still recognizes that God calls us to love all men. If I understand scripture correctly though, the Jews still need Jesus for forgiveness. That's based on the following as well as other scriptures:
- Jesus's comments to Nicodemus in John 3, a Jew and a member of the Sanhedrin on the necessity of being born again.
- Psalms 2:12 - Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
- Zechariah 12:10 - And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
I hope for all Jews sake, that there is someway that God will apply Jesus redemptive work to the Jews who failed to accept Him. But the way I read the New Testament I see that as unlikely.
And to those Jews who dismiss the Christian view of Hell, I point out Daniel 12:2 - And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Thank you for your unsolicited reply to my question that you've sent by private email.
Thank you also for its bigoted content and your putting together Judaism and Islamofashists into the same group.