Israel and Humanity - The Israel Catholicism
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The Israel Catholicism.
It is probably worthwhile to see how well various points on the intellectual horizon, eminent thinkers out everything including the character of the Mosaic particularistic and universal religion which is the form appropriate to the Israelites .
Spinoza tells us that the laws that God dictated to Moses concern only Jews and are binding on any other people: "I asked myself," he adds, for what reason the Hebrews were called God's elect. Now convinced myself that it only means that God had chosen some countered land where they could live comfortably and safely, I learned there that the laws revealed by God to Moses are anything but the particular law of the Hebrew nation. The explanation given by the philosopher of the election of Israel seems at first sight rather strange, but in reality we find is the idea that the biblical and rabbinic Palestine is a more particular the God of Israel as well Israel itself. What is most remarkable in this passage from Spinoza, is when rising from the consideration of the special devotion of Jews to the con- except the Noachism, he calls this one true universal religion; "Then I wanted to know," he said, if the Catholic (universal), I mean the divine law revealed by the prophets and the apostles at all human race, is different from that which reveals to us the natural light. No doubt the thought [1] Spinoza here is consistent with ideas that we try to explain to the reader. Besides the Mosaic is the national status of Jews, there is a universal law, including that of a Catholic Christian apostles were imperfect realization of a test.
The independent philosophy meets therefore with the Hebraism which Philo has done his part, we said, the faithful interpreter when he teaches that the light of reason would suffice to bring all people to monotheism but not had to go through Judaism, because monotheism is basically true Judaism, and rabbis have given the truth of this theological formula, saying: "Anyone who renounces idolatry is a real Jew," or, "Whoever rejects polytheism confesses all the Law Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag The same author adds that mixed Judaism differed from Christianity by the importance it attributed to the role of Jesus and Josephus reduced to "a kind of deism, admitting that circumcision and Jewish practices were good for the Jews of race, that true worship is that we all adopt freely. "On every page, a gentle philosophy, sympathetic to all virtue, considering the ritual precepts of the law as a duty only Israelites, proclaiming loudly that every man has just the essential qualification for becoming a son of Abraham [2]. But when the eminent critic errs is when is that Judaism and made accessible to all as a particular conception of Josephus, while there is not something other than the way the Pharisees and all who were acquainted with the Hebrew traditions, considering Noachism the religion of the Gentiles. [3] This conception of Judaism is found even in the Fathers of the Christian Church. Eusebius in his "Evangelical Preparation" very carefully distinguishes the religion of the Mosaic law and not give it authority only over Israel. Moses, according to him, did not alter the tradition of the patriarchs in regard to doctrine. "It was just," he said, laying the groundwork for legislation and policy formation related to the life style of people among whom he stood. " This is not only the Jewish doctrine that Moses left unaltered, but the cult Noachide only compulsory after him as before him for all those who are not Jews and should also add that this particular legislation he has given to Israel, which only concerns itself includes all the observances of the Act, all of which respond to his priestly character.
Finally, we find Ecriturc in itself proof that the Gentiles are not subject to the Mosaic and it exists outside of it, for those who do not belong by birth or voluntary affiliation a religious state is perfectly legal. Among the accusations against the pagans, is there ever appear in the Bible that do not practice the religion of Moses, as she repeatedly blames them for their neglect of the Noachism, as she also blamed Israel for so many occasions for its violation of the Torah? Tradition is more, it lists the precepts which the Gentile is submitted. It is a worship quite apart and that has no other connection with the Mosaic that which unites the secular cult of the priestly rule. So the doctors they proclaim as legitimate consequence of this doctrine truly Catholic, the only perfectly legitimate sense of the word, that the righteous of all nations have a share in eternal salvation.
