Judaism's core beliefs: God, human nature, and the promised land

¶ … Jews and the phenomena of Judaism included in the text reference http://www.jewfaq.org/God.htm. The main points of the essay will consist of whether the fact Judaism is a religion, the nature of the God in Judaism and the Human nature according to the Jew people.

The life of human beings is heavily influenced by religion, especially in some parts of the Globe. The religion tries to explain things that can not be scientifically demonstrated and set a reference point for which the believers must follow. The Judaism is the religion and culture of the Jew people. The basis and history of the Judaism represents the starting point for more religions, including Christianity and Islam. Being the first religion that proposed the idea of God'S uniqueness, Judaism is based on a Holly book: the Judaic Bible - which comprises of 24 books (sections) divided into three parts. Torah, Neviim and Ketuviim present different religious episodes including the Genesis of the world, the Exodus from Israel, the prophesies and the Judaic writings.

Religion (300)

The Judaism is one of the oldest and the most important religion in the world offering fundaments for other newer religions that were about to emerge. It transmits ideas about how the ideal world should be, how people should live their life. But additionally, the religion idea is further on supplemented by the geographical component. Israel, the Holly land considered by the Jew population from all around the world, has the special status established by the Judaic Bible for the fact that this location housed the Temple, but also for the fact that Israel is the land of promise, the divine gift offered by God to his people. The Jew tribes have lived in this location, in the current place of Israel state, for about a millennium. The most important and holiest cities for the Jew people were the Jerusalem, Hebron, Tzaphat and Tiberias. The importance of Jerusalem, as a cultural and religious place, is reflected by the fact that the name of the city is cited in the Judaic Bible by more than 700 hundred times. According to the Old Testament, the Holly Land was the house of the first ancestors of the Jew population, Abram (Avram) followers. In Jerusalem, king Solomon built the Temple on the Moriah hill, situated in the Eastern part of the city. The temple, symbol of the Judaic theological movement and the religious belief in only one God, was ruined by the Babylonian invasion. Rebuilt for the second time, the Temple was ruined during the Roman Empire administration. The Jew population was forced to leave the Holly land in the Second century a.C, and only after the Second World War - in 1948 - they were able to return to the land first promised by God to the chosen people.

Human nature (200)

The common belief of Christians and Jews is that people are in close resemblance with the image God. Even if it not the physical side, but on the fact that people can reason on the status of things, can make decisions. The idea that people have to answer for their deeds in front of God relies solely on the fact that people can take rational decisions according to their free will. Jews consider that people are equal in the eyes of God, the love of God being spread in equal terms among all individuals. Muslin believers consider man to be superior to women, having more cultural, political or social rights - for example, women in Arabic countries are not allowed to vote, participate to social events unaccompanied by their husbands.

Other differences which arouse between the religions is the perception of the original sin. Jews do not perceive the original sin of Adam and Eve as the reason for the human leaving the Gardens of Eden. On the contrary, Christianity regards the original sin as the starting point for the human condition, the first exam failed by the human kind within their relationship with the divinity.

Conclusion (50)

As we could see from the text, there are differences and similar things among the religions of the world. The way people perceive religion depends greatly on human and theological interpretation, as well as on cultural differences.

Reference List

1) Robinson, G.(2000). Essential Judaism.Pocket Books