>1. do you fully accept the bible as the word of God, straight up. >Divine intervention between God and the authors who were possessed by >the Holy Spirit and then wrote about it? Yes but what Jews, especially orthodox Jews hold, may be far from what you think the Bible says. We hold by both the written law (Torah) and the oral law (Mishnah) and feel that one without the other makes the whole point moot. In addition, trying to take the Torah from Hebrew to other languages, especially through the perilous path that the 'modern' english bible goes through (hebrew->greek->latin->old english->middle english->modern english) loses the meaning and point.
>2. do you fully accept the idea of creation? Yes, but again not as you may think it. On one hand there's really no care what came before man as Torah history starts with man. Anything before is really glossed over. On the other hand is the recognition that not only was it not 6 days as we know them but the concept of time didn't even exist until the 4th day so any attempt to put the world's creation into 6 actual 24 hour days is rather pointless. There is an esoteric understanding of the creation process but that's far from the question here. As is usual when asking a question to a Jew, the answer is "yes, but". :) Oh BTW, the laws that the Torah states for Jews are not the laws for non-Jews. We've got 613 and you've got 7. You do 7 and you get to the same heaven as we do. God, you've got it easy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:201875 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
