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To: Ish who wrote (135723)	6/5/2004 11:39:05 AM
From: Valley Girl	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Most Christians I know, including me, believe that God is waiting for all of us when we die, regardless of what our faith was on Earth, and that if we've lived according to the laws written into our hearts, He'll take us in, again regardless of what we believed on Earth. This is what's taught by major variants of Christianity such as Catholicism, so I think it's fair to say that this is what "most" Christians believe. Some Christians (very few) go further and think He forgives everyone no matter how wicked they were. God bless them, they're better people than I am. Some Christians, again very few, go further the the other way and think He's taking no one unless they believed something specific here on Earth (usually, that they believe in the divinity of Jesus). What happens to people He doesn't take in is unclear, and so speculation runs the gamut from total oblivion to eternal torment in hell. As far as what we think the Jews expect, sadly I think most Christians haven't bothered to ask, and just assume that Jews have a similar belief system, especially since Christianity grew out of Judaism. I've asked some Jewish friends, and from what I gather they do not - there is no expectation of some sort of life after death with God in their teachings. I'm not completely sure though, because the answers I got were pretty vague. The Jews I know (like many Christians) aren't very religious, their Judaism is more of a cultural thing. One thing I can't understand is why believers in the major monotheistic religions don't get along - after all, God is God, and most of the rest is detail. People don't seem to distinguish between God's laws and Man's. God's laws are self-evident because they're written into each of us. We know murdering our fellows is evil, and helping them good. You can't really say that about, oh, eating a ham and cheese sandwich, or even the divinity of Jesus.