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From: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: A query to "Dvar Torah"
Message-ID: <12568@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 02:53:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocheste.12568
Posted: Wed Oct 23 02:53:21 1985
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Reply-To: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher)
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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In article <2301@brl-tgr.ARPA> matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes:
>
>The one who believes such a hypothesis, and teaches men so, will
>not even be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven -- he is a kofer
>b'ikar and will lose his share in the World to Come!  For he is
>not just a sinner, but a causer of sin:  If the Torah were not what
>it claims to be, then it would not be worthy of being followed --
>each man would do what was right in his own eyes.  

How can someone be considerred sinful for teaching something that he 
believes?  I can see that some who does not believe the hypothesis but
hypocritically teaches it anyway should lose his share in the World to
Come.  I do not believe that God would punish a man for being honestly
wrong.  Of course I could be mistaken, I'm no authority!  
-- 
-David Sher
sher@rochester
seismo!rochester!sher