The Choice in the Judaic Belief
The Choice in the Judaic Belief
The notion of the choice in the Torah
The concept of Belief in the Torah
The doctrine of belief in the Torah is founded on the idea of the one and only eternal unique God. He is the creator of the universe. The Old Testament in the Genesis we are informed about the successive acts of creation by God:
‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’ Genesis 1: 1
In its presentation Genesis informs of a creation already programmed with precise finality characteristics. In order to achieve these stages of creation the creator has initiated things from ‘nothingness’. He had a precisely detailed plan. He had executed His plan according to His own will. The Torah confronts constantly man with the idea of creation as an immediate act of God’s will.
Creation is an Act of God’s Will
In this perspective there is no place for either auto-creation or for Darwinian evolution, or for any other natural forces such as nature and energy. The idea of order and organization are primordial to the creation of the universe. Chaos and disorder is totally rejected according to this concept. This perspective of creation is based on the word of Genesis. As is the case in all religions there is no attempt to provide with evidence, or proof, or index for its assumptions. The whole structure of Judaism, as it is in Christianity and Islam, is founded on the premise that there is no appeal to factual evidence of its proclamations, i.e. to the origin of, the divine will or the intentional directives underlying creation. The Old Testament does not discuss the nature of the