Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Do Jews need Jesus? Message-ID: Date: 17 May 91 06:21:27 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu (A number of people have quoted from the Gospels suggesting that only through faith in Jesus can people be saved.) Luke 10:25-28 25 A teacher of the Law came up and tried to trap Jesus. "Teacher", he asked, "what must I do to receive eternal life?" 26 Jesus answered him, "What do the Scriptures say? How do you interpret them?" 27 The man answered, "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind'; and `Love your neighbor as you love yourself.'" 28 "You are right," Jesus replied; "do this and you will live." (TEV) The teacher of the Law then asks who his neighbor is, and Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan. So, in the first place, Jesus tells the man that he can receive eternal life by following the Law. And then, he tells a story to explain what following the law means. As it turns out, two highly placed Jews do not follow the law, but a Samaritan does. Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton