In the Jewish community, people who come up with good answers are widely admired, while those who ask good questions are even more respected. In my experience, those leaders who can do both are usually called rabbis. Last week I was asked a series of probing questions by a Conservative rabbi. Like most of the good questions that rabbis have posed to me over the years, they centered on LDS beliefs concerning the afterlife. Most rabbis, like most Jews, don’t care a great deal about what Christians believe about the olam ha-ba. However, those who do almost always want an answer to the question of theological exclusivism: Can Jews achieve salvation on their own, or do they need to convert to Christianity?
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