please do not use my name or city of origin. our son aged 20 is working part time. he returned from work and told us that his co worker asked him if he was Jewish. He responded he was. the co worked was very happy to learn this and asked what synagogue he attended. he responded and the coworker said that he attended the community messainic congregation but that the educational director of our synagogue was teaching him Hebrew. i confirmed this and was told by the educational director that he was teaching this man (not born Jewish) as part of a Kiruv initiative. i questioned the value of this energy as well as if kiruv is contemplated as efforts to train christians who are messianic....please comment.

What happens after death? Is life eternal? What about heaven and hell? Comment: NOT put on web, because answer already appears.

My reading of the story of Adam and Eve suggests that human experience becomes separated from God's created world (cast out from Paradise) once they draw distinctions of right and wrong (knowledge of good and evil). Now as we live in a time where violent conflict results from opposite insistences of what is good and what is evil, individuals are alienated from their cultures and institutions if they challenge the taught, practiced, and enforced values of good and evil that are the random inheritance of their birth circumstance. Our legal system even offers "knowing right from wrong" as the test for sanity. My question is: how do you address this first message of the bible; the paradox of societies that both war "righteously" against the others "evil"; and the authority of states and churches to define and teach values of "good", "evil", "right", and "wrong"?

What happens after death? Is life eternal? What about heaven and hell? Comment: NOT put on web, because answer already appears.

My reading of the story of Adam and Eve suggests that human experience becomes separated from God's created world (cast out from Paradise) once they draw distinctions of right and wrong (knowledge of good and evil). Now as we live in a time where violent conflict results from opposite insistences of what is good and what is evil, individuals are alienated from their cultures and institutions if they challenge the taught, practiced, and enforced values of good and evil that are the random inheritance of their birth circumstance. Our legal system even offers "knowing right from wrong" as the test for sanity. My question is: how do you address this first message of the bible; the paradox of societies that both war "righteously" against the others "evil"; and the authority of states and churches to define and teach values of "good", "evil", "right", and "wrong"?