MarieP
Puritan Board Senior
So tonight we had dinner at my grandparents for my mom's birthday, and a discussion came up of funerals and seeing dead people in caskets (I assure you, this is not normal conversation at our birthday parties!) My cousin's husband, Jamie is a Jew (and my cousin doesn't have any particular religious belief- though her parents grew up in church and she would attend with my family at times when she was younger and knows the basics of the Gospel). Well, Jamie was saying that his family never looked at the body after death, and he said he wasn't exactly sure why. I mentioned that the Torah said that if someone touched a dead body, they'd be unclean for a time and would have to ceremonially clean themselves. He basically said, "Well, that could be the case" and changed the subject. And went back to eating his non-kosher lasagna. It was a bit weird, and quite sad too...
Which brought me to thinking about this question: On the last day, will those Jews who don't observe the ceremonial law (which would be all of them, actually, since Jerusalem was destroyed) have this brought up by God? Maybe not, since the reason for those laws has finished its course. Or would it really matter because Paul says that he who wants to live under law is a debtor to keep the whole thing?
Of course, it would be a little like "You forsook your husband and committed adultery. Oh yeah, you also dissed your babysitter too."
Which brought me to thinking about this question: On the last day, will those Jews who don't observe the ceremonial law (which would be all of them, actually, since Jerusalem was destroyed) have this brought up by God? Maybe not, since the reason for those laws has finished its course. Or would it really matter because Paul says that he who wants to live under law is a debtor to keep the whole thing?
Of course, it would be a little like "You forsook your husband and committed adultery. Oh yeah, you also dissed your babysitter too."