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Tue, 8-Jul-08 12:58:10
Douggg wrote: "One of the final steps of the Redemption is the end of the Evil Inclination. Hardly a novel idea of Christianity." Hi Gedaliah, I don't know if "novel" is the right word. But there is distinctly a difference. Christians believe that the evil inclination of man to sin will not be done away with until our bodies are redeemed (not restored) to a different incorruptible body - in the resurrection and associated, in the twinkling of an eye, changing of those Christians alive when it takes place. Our current bodies, which are made from the earth, the extension of Adam's flesh - Christians believe will be changed to a body made of heavenly supernatural substance, not a restoration to the garden of eden body that Adam originally had. The impression I get is that the Christian concept of redemption above is not the same as Judaism's concept - which is a restoration to the garden of eden originality - which would mean bodies made from the dust of the earth (I am asking) ?
"One of the final steps of the Redemption is the end of the Evil Inclination. Hardly a novel idea of Christianity."
Life will not make a quick move to a fantasy world where the laws of nature cease. It appears to be the teaching of the Zohar that the end of the Evil Inclination takes place when the last resurrection takes place, 210 years after the righteous are resurrected. This is all far after the repair of the sin of the first man. That is to say that there will be no remnant of the influence of that sin for more than a hundred years prior to the final resurrection. We are not going back to life before that sin, but the effects of that sin are to be repaired.
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