Israel and Humanity - Conclusion
CONCLUSION [1]
CONCLUSION
No religion has been more misunderstood, maligned more than Judaism and the accusation of being a religion tainted by the narrowest national particularism is that it has most often addressed his enemies and detractors. The Mosaic revelation, we repeated it is unworthy of a God supremely good. The exclusive privilege granted to religious one people to the detriment of all other races on earth is the most flagrant injustice, it is unacceptable because a wise Creator and impartial act as a father and inhuman and capricious, to enrich his favorite son, there remains the other children. Such ideas are incompatible with absolute perfection that exists in heaven and therefore the Mosaic carries the infallible sign of the error.
Certainly, the conclusion is correct, if the charge was the least well founded. The design of a creator God of all peoples who, after giving to all men without distinction the same intelligence, the same heart, the same needs, only then would seek a nation without the slightest concern to instruct , guide and educate others, such a belief, I say, is to rebel against a sense of justice and it would surely blasphemy to attribute such a thought to the eternal wisdom. So, far from condemning those who make this objection a weapon against Judaism, we do not hesitate to declare that in pushing the energy of their souls and religion included, the true God they make the finest tribute it is possible to imagine.
But we do not deceive us by saying that this book, after all the evidence we have accumulated, not [2] This leaves nothing undeserved accusation. In the first two games we have established that the beliefs of Judaism on the God of Israel and the gods of paganism, then the man and organization of human society, provide all the essential elements of a religion with universal trends significantly. The idea that Judaism has made to the Act and as a divine revelation to the Gentiles than among Jews, as we have outlined in our third party has fully confirmed our demonstration.
These doctrines were bound to affect strongly on the knowledge that the Jews have taken the special character and destiny of their religion. It should be noted that speculative point of view as well as practical, he existed in the ancient world that no people professed principles diametrically opposed to theirs, no race that would seek to isolate themselves in their national egoism, and therefore we addressed this criticism at that time the Jews to separate themselves from other nations could be, with much more reason, turned against the accusers themselves. In fact, Judaism was the only one in all directions of thought as in all manifestations of religious life, the intuition of universalism and to put in communion with the entire human race. No matter if shunned contact with other people, so often so degraded? He never left them for better connect with humanity itself, as his views made him the sublime glimpse into the future.
Without doubt, the multitude in Israel failed to rise to the understanding of these truths, even today, remain inaccessible to so many minds. There in the knowledge of any religion as a natural gradation corresponding to the intellectual and spiritual growth of believers and that should be particularly true for Judaism, whose doctrine far exceeded the level of intelligence. Surely such men as Samuel, David and Isaiah had to make the mission of Israel to a much higher opinion that the vulgar. But of course by the notions which stand the elite minds that we should judge the value of a religion. Just for the eternal honor of Judaism that ideal incomparably superior to everything around him was constantly kept in his breast, and the voice of the prophets [3] and its doctors don ' has ceased to proclaim, despite all the adverse circumstances.
Thus, while all the peoples of antiquity agree to recognize only local deities whose empire did not extend beyond their borders, while all fractionation infinite conception of God, Judaism believed in the single unit at the top and bottom with this one magic word, he was sent down from heaven on the earth's most precious truths. If God is one, if it is the sovereign master of the universe as the confessed Abraham, if not a place of darkness or light, suffering or joy, where he is now David sang as if to Him belong the praise and worship as reiterated in emulation Moses and the prophets, how his Providence would not it universal? This firm belief that the Jew's God was the One true God would not allow him to admit that other people were unrelated to paternal solicitude.
But in Judaism, the unity is not only in God, she is still in the world and all mankind. The image of the deity on earth, the cooperator of the Creator Spirit, does not the Semite, is not Jewish, is the man. So before the call of Abraham, the very origins of the world, the Bible shows us God interested in the destiny of the human race created by Him and happens when Noah, the just man, as Scripture calls He is honored to special revelations, new laws are given to God and concludes with him and his descendants a solemn covenant [4]. In the history of Abraham, a remarkable person, almost cryptic, made a brief appearance but what light it projects! The dark depths of the pagan world, of corruption within and error that already prevailed everywhere here with Melchizedek, the undisputed evidence in the Gentile world of ancient and venerable institution, a religion, a monotheistic priesthood , even superior to that of the Hebrew patriarch, Abraham was blessed because of this priest of El Elyon , maker of heaven and earth, that is to say of God the most universal imaginable. [5]. Not only the sacred books have preserved the memory of that memorable [6]
