Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!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: 24 May 91 03:42:28 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard) writes: >In article tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) writes: >>(A number of people have quoted from the Gospels suggesting that only >>through faith in Jesus can people be saved.) > >The parable of the rich young ruler has always seemed to me not so >much a question of following the Law, as the ruler said he did, but >following the Spirit of the Law, which was what the ruler could not do >when asked to give all his money to the poor and follow Jesus. The >next important part of that passage is that in answer to the >disciple's question Jesus' answer is "With God, all things are >possible." I was not citing the "parable" of the rich young ruler. My citation was from Luke 10:25-28, (which leads into the parable of the "Good Samaritan"). I am not certain if your mention of the rich young ruler is a mis-understanding, or if you are offering another view of the matter from the Gospels. In any case I would kind of agree with you. Except, although the Rich Young Man claims to have kept the commandments listed by Jesus, (including loving his neighbor as himself), he is unable to bring himself to sell all that he has and give the money to the poor. (It appears he loves himself more than his neighbor.) So, the Rich Young Man we find does not follow the law. Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton