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Greatshield17
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25 Feb 2020, 11:21 am
vermontsavant wrote:
One to think about is Judaism,there not evangelical so they don't get a lot of gentile converts but one can convert to Judaism if your willing to study and take religion seriously.
It's not a half bad way to go,you need to learn the five books of Moses(Torah)and you need to learn some Hebrew and Jewish cultural traditions but this can be learned in 6 months to a year.
Some secular Jews don't like gentile converts but most practicing Jews who go to temple every saturday and pray often in Hebrew will respect gentile converts as real Jews if they really show they are serious about the faith.
I am not pushing Judaism on you but just letting you know it is a valid option if your willing to work at it.
It's not a half bad way to go,you need to learn the five books of Moses(Torah)and you need to learn some Hebrew and Jewish cultural traditions but this can be learned in 6 months to a year.
Some secular Jews don't like gentile converts but most practicing Jews who go to temple every saturday and pray often in Hebrew will respect gentile converts as real Jews if they really show they are serious about the faith.
I am not pushing Judaism on you but just letting you know it is a valid option if your willing to work at it.
To be frank, I don't like religions, (specifically religions that emphasize a relationship with God or [a] god[s].) that don't engage evangelization. Yes definitely don't force it on people, and I personally believe it has to come from a deep grace of love, self-sacrificial zeal and discernment. But when a religion (again one that believes in a relationship with God or gods) doesn't really care about whether or not their fellow-human beings have a loving relationship with the Divine, that just seems to me like a religion that doesn't care about the Divine or human that much.
But you obviously have a different view, and some of this does come a bit from personal experience. I used to be very bitter about the fact that no Catholic ever approached me and tried to bring me into the Faith, but I later realized that that became a blessing to me, as it resulted in me being reverted back the Faith by Our Lady of Fatima.
25 Feb 2020, 1:32 pm
Greatshield17 wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
One to think about is Judaism,there not evangelical so they don't get a lot of gentile converts but one can convert to Judaism if your willing to study and take religion seriously.
It's not a half bad way to go,you need to learn the five books of Moses(Torah)and you need to learn some Hebrew and Jewish cultural traditions but this can be learned in 6 months to a year.
Some secular Jews don't like gentile converts but most practicing Jews who go to temple every saturday and pray often in Hebrew will respect gentile converts as real Jews if they really show they are serious about the faith.
I am not pushing Judaism on you but just letting you know it is a valid option if your willing to work at it.
It's not a half bad way to go,you need to learn the five books of Moses(Torah)and you need to learn some Hebrew and Jewish cultural traditions but this can be learned in 6 months to a year.
Some secular Jews don't like gentile converts but most practicing Jews who go to temple every saturday and pray often in Hebrew will respect gentile converts as real Jews if they really show they are serious about the faith.
I am not pushing Judaism on you but just letting you know it is a valid option if your willing to work at it.
To be frank, I don't like religions, (specifically religions that emphasize a relationship with God or [a] god[s].) that don't engage evangelization. Yes definitely don't force it on people, and I personally believe it has to come from a deep grace of love, self-sacrificial zeal and discernment. But when a religion (again one that believes in a relationship with God or gods) doesn't really care about whether or not their fellow-human beings have a loving relationship with the Divine, that just seems to me like a religion that doesn't care about the Divine or human that much.
But you obviously have a different view, and some of this does come a bit from personal experience. I used to be very bitter about the fact that no Catholic ever approached me and tried to bring me into the Faith, but I later realized that that became a blessing to me, as it resulted in me being reverted back the Faith by Our Lady of Fatima.
I wasn't saying that it necessarily what the poster of this thread should pursue,but it is an option worth looking at but it's not for everyone.
