There is a close, but often misleading relationship between Judaism and Christianity. The discrepancies are great, however, there are many similarities, many because Christianity emerged from Judaism. It is wrong to assume that Christianity as a whole is seen as the natural progression of Judaism. The most distinct contribution of Judaism to Christianity was the religious thought of monotheism, the idea that there is only one God. “I am the Lord thy God, which have …
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…just, the seeming injustice on Earth has propelled many into seeing the afterlife as a time to reflect on human existence. In Judaism, there is no clear Heaven and Hell, with different Hells for different punishments. Rather, God uses the afterlife as a way for the wrong to right themselves with some sort of final redemption. Eventually they would reach the final joyous most joyous point, the Heaven, would be closest to God. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**