No, it is JEWISH. Like Jesus.
That is an absurd comment. Just because Jesus was Jewish in his incarnation, does not mean he agreed with all their teachings. He rebuked the Pharisees and Sadducees for many things. Neither is the idea of life after death believed by Jews. This was the dispute between the Sadducees who believed we ceased to exist against the Pharisees who believed in life after death. The Sadducees, btw, won out and most Jews do not believe in life after death. The idea of life before birth is from the Kabbalah, not the Old Testament.
That is absolutely true. So how does forcing kids to have children when they are too young to be able to make a committed relationship, much less raise children properly, accomplish this sacred task?
Who forces kids to have have children when they are too young? And who is to say when is too young? We currently live in a world where children are infanticized well into their 30's. But generations ago, especially on the farms, 13 and 14 year olds began raising families because of higher infant mortality and they they matured faster since they were put to work on the farms as children.
It sounds like you're condoning premarital sex. I'm sure that's not the case, but you're getting way off topic and really aren't addressing the central issue of consciousness.
I am not condoning premarital sex, I am stating that when the law of reproduction is applied, children are born, and God wants all children to be born. The topic is soul and spirits existing before birth. My thesis is that they do not. They are created at the same time as the body when sperm and egg unite.
Consciousness comes from your spirit & soul ultimately, the brain is just the last stop. Why would a conscious soul want to bond with a microscopic worm? The notion of a soul with no consciousness is a fundamental theological self-contradiction.
You assume a conscious soul exists before conception, of which you have neither proof nor Scripture to support your assumption. Spirit and souls grow with the first cell.
Souls sleep in Sheol, but that is not consciousness annihilation, they dream and can be awakened. The idea of a soul with no consciousness is fundamentally contrary to the basic theologic principles of Judaism. The brain is just a computer that churns over the same data again and again. All new thought comes from higher consciousness, from your soul and spirit.
Where the heck do you get that idea? Not from the Bible. Sleep is metaphoric for death, in the Bible, not a concept of soul sleep. Frankly, I don't agree with the brain being merely a computer. This is why the doctrine of bodily resurrection is so important. We are triune beings: body, soul and spirit. Our bodies are not merely machines that we inhabit. They are us. We are made in the image of God as triune beings. I am my body, I am my soul, and I am my spirit.
You are relegating the soul to a purely material thing. That is materialism, not spirituality. Your soul is conscious before you were born and chose where to be born, just as it will continue to exist after you die.
Consider how God made Adam.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
First he made the body from the dust of the ground.
Second, he breathed the breath of life, aka gave him a spirit of life.
Lastly, he became a living soul which was the consequence of the spirit joining the body.
Without the body, there is no soul.
Finally, who cares what the Jews think. They rejected Yahweh when he became the man Christ Jesus our Savior. The Jews know nothing but their cultural traditions which are based upon the Talmud. The Talmud is the repository of all those traditions that Jesus rebuked.
