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size=2>From: Zev Sero <A
href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</A><BR><BR>>>How does teshuvah
earn OHB? What did he *do* to earn it? Where is<BR>his life of torah
and mitzvos? Teshuva to get out of gehenom I<BR>understand, but how does
it earn OHB? ....<BR><BR><BR><BR>He literally *bought* it. As for
justice, he got in on RChbT's zechus,<BR>not his own. ... RChbT had
enough credit Above to get two people<BR>(and many more) into OHB, and if he
chose to spend some of that credit<BR>to get this Roman in, that's his
business. The Roman had something he<BR>needed, so he paid the price
demanded. <<<BR><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Excuse me, but didn't the Roman sentence himself to death for the sin of
murder, and throw himself into the fire? How is that NOT doing
teshuva? He could have (supposedly) gained olam haba just by taking away
the wet cotton.</DIV>
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<DIV>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 -- does that not show that he did teshuva?</DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
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