Lula! Your theology is getting stranger and stranger! Are you a monotheist or a polytheist? Jesus was not "in Abraham", for goodness sake. Jesus wasn't born for another couple of thousand years! If you say Jesus was with God in heaven, then God is two, not one.
God created us for eternal life with Him and He gave us the path to everlasting life.
Boy, this says a lot. I actually agree, but I am sure not as you understand your words. We have eternal life, each of us, already. We are part of the vast material that comprises this eternal universe. We know that msatter and energy can be neither created or destroyed, only exchanged. The path is the Way. It is laid out by the Torah itself, a path to holiness; it is laid out in many other religions. The Buddha taught the very same Greatr way. Even Master Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen Buddhism in the 13th century taught that practice was actually "practice realization". In other words, the moment we practice as buddhas we are buddhas.
In the passage from the old to the new, the priests were commissioned to carry forward the the whole world the justice of the Mosaic Law which was placed at first withiin the keeping of the Aaronic priesthood, but at the coming of the Christ, the law of love, of Christian charity, was added to the law of justice. The supernatural religion of Christ was to be extended and expanded to the ultimate confines of the earth, it was to be universal.
Love has been a part of Judaism from day one, Lula. Christ did nothing but expound on an existing precept. Charity is a pillar of Judaic faith and practice. Apparently you do not know enough about the parent of your faith to speak intelligently about it. I wish, Lula, that people who so easily espouse their views of a faith actually gotto know that faith before opening their mouths.
Your last sentance was not Jesus' idea, I am certain. Jesus was a Jew concerned about the spirituality of Jews. It was only later that the Church decided to try toi build itself on the backs of pagans.
The trinity is polytheism, plain and simple, if you don't take the time and develop the practice of looking deeply. You cannot talk about Jesus as God, a person, and God as what (?) , and God's spirit, as if they are three things, three entities, without falling into polytheism. Yet, when we take the view that God comprises the universe and all that is in it is a manifestation of Him. that's pure monotheism: one God, period. Then He manifest in everything, Jesus, spirit, you, me, and yes, KFC, my teacup.
The primary import of them is that they foretell the coming of the Messias.
Says you and, perhaps Christianity. Jews do not necessarily look sat it this way. Messianic thought was not about eternal salvation anbd bnever was. It was about getting right with God so that we would prosper and be happy. The prophets pointed fingers as we moved away from the Torah, urged us to return to the Way God gave us in His Torah. The messiah has legand, it has hope, but ultimately, it is the People who are the messiah, partners with God.
As a people, the Jews suffer as a penalty for the resistence to God's Revelation. today, Jews have the recorded facts to reckon with--in prefigures, in prophecy and in historic incident. The Messias came and the Messianic age began with His coming. Not only do we believe He came in fulfillment of the Sacred Scriptures, but we believe also that the Messias will come again as foretold in Zacharais 12:10.
And Christian's don't suffer? Everyone suffers Lula, its part of being alive and attached to things. The messiah did not come as evidenced by the facts: continued war, contnued suffering, a continued diaspora. Jesus was a false messiah. Believe what you want. I am happy for you.
Be well.