Beliefs about God

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    • Jews are monotheists. God is one and a unity.
    • A creator
    • Omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent
  • TRANSCENDANT:
    • For my thoughts are not your thoughts,​    neither are your ways my ways,”​declares the Lord.​
    •  “As the heavens are higher than the earth,​ so are my ways higher than your ways​ and my thoughts than your thoughts.​
    • Outside limitations of time (pre-dates universe)
    • Able to observe the universe
    • Beyond human understanding
    • He cannot be seen (chooses when and how he reveals him)
    • Jews view God's presence in the world today as "Shekhinah"("presence")
  • ETERNAL:
    • Existence is accepted as fact (Jews feel no need to argue)
    • Existed before universe was created (Jews accept he'd always existed and WILL always exist)
  • MERCIFUL:
    • Judaism teaches God is a judge but he acts with mercy. ​
    • Revealed to the prophet Moses the laws and duties that are expected of all Jews (e.g. the Ten Sayings - Recorded in the Torah) God judges how each Jew follows the laws, but he balances justice with mercy
    • God's given 10 days after Rosh Hashanah to make up for wrongdoings before the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
  • JUDGE:
    • Grants forgiveness if one is truly sorry
    • Rosh Hashanah (Jewish festival) celebrates creation of the world and believed to be the time God will judge every person. ​
    • Talmud describes how God will bring out scales to weigh a persons deeds (good deeds on one side, bad on other)