[Avodah] mei marom

[Zev Sero]

T613K at aol.com wrote:

> Excuse me, but didn't the Roman sentence himself to death for the sin of 
> murder, and throw himself into the fire?

No, he didn't.   There is not even a hint of such a thing in the
gemara.  It is pure fantasy.  I don't know who told you such a
thing, but they were making it up.


>  How is that NOT doing 
> teshuva?  He could have (supposedly) gained olam haba just by taking 
> away the wet cotton.

That *is* how he gained it.  He then committed suicide; the gemara
doesn't say why, but the most obvious reason is that he would have
been killed for his "crime".

  
> Also, if he previously didn't believe in G-d or in schar ve'onesh
> or in olam haba, and he now does believe in olam haba and in the
> survival of the soul after death

What makes you think he hadn't believed in these things before?  He
was a pagan, not an atheist!

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