Iron County Record | 1928-12-19 | Page 2 | Intellectual Consent to All Things in Bible Not Necessary of Jews

Intellectual Consent to All Things in Bible Not Necessary for Jews By RABBI STEPHEN S. S WISE New York It Sit is a n mistake to believe e that religious religious f faith ith is diminishing because of growing skepticism us HI to some stat statements in the Jewish Bible Young people imagine that they tHY have t given i n up religion abandoned Judaism because they have haie refused l to give l i int intellectual c consent t to some things in inthe inthe inthe the Bible think it is wrong to say say I am nm a Jew Tew when they do not believe some things thing in the Bible nihIl do not ot observe hs r e the dietary laws law or have ha reverence for Jesus Christ t. t I want young people to know that they may ruty dissent from Crom and reject thousands of thing things in the Hebrew Bible nihIl and still be spiritually religiously religiously reli reli- and utterly loyal Jews Whether one Otle is a Jew and is loyal depend depends not on whether he or she believes Iwic s what Moses thinks of God dod but whether this man or woman i is sr seeking kill aft after r God GOI with his his' or ur or her own life and The flue quest of trod fiod is original not sero secondary u universal h not partial We Ve are free born souls and we WI are building up the same seme right with which our fathers laid the foundations lons