11-08-2020, 03:23 PM
(11-08-2020, 07:42 AM)Jason Wrote:(11-08-2020, 03:48 AM)searchinmyroots Wrote: Eternal life sounds like Christian theology to me.
Indeed, but we do have the expression חַיֵּי הָֽעוֹלָם הַבָּא ḥayê hāʿôlām habbāʾ "the life of the World to Come" in Jewish sources, and sources would seem to indicate that it is eternal. We have to be careful about letting Christians usurp Jewish concepts and take ownership of them.
What "eternal life" does do, however, is show us that the person was probably reading Christian sources and trying to work from there.
Yes, what Judaism believes is the "world to come" is much different than what Christians believe is "eternal life" with all of their gold streets and feasts.