Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel?
Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel?
I know Jewish people are granted some special right to visit the state of Israel, and some companies organize free tours for Jewish born or living outside.
But does that apply only for people ethnically Jewish that come from Jewish families? Or also applies to new converts to Judaism?
Like, not literally converting tomorrow and demand a free vacation to Israel, but like, converting and in a few years wait and see if they offer me a free vacation to the country to visit the most iconic places of Judaism?
How does that works?
edit: I'm a hispanic atheist with no Jewish family that I know of, and I'm not interested on joining any religion, this is just a hypothetical case.
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If Sienfeld, King of the Hill and Family Guy are accurate about this (sure they're just TV shows and two are cartoons, but for 3 different things to show the same specific shit there must be some truth), you can't just convert to Judaism overnight. There are things you have to actually do and they require study. Often years of it. It's not like Christianity where you can just say "I believe this now" and have them welcome you as one of their own faith.
So even if getting a trip was as easy as becoming Jewish, becoming Jewish isn't that easy.
Are you saying you can’t just declare Judaism the way you declare bankruptcy?
"No Micheal, you can't just say Judaism and be Jewish."
"I didn't say it. I declared it."
Christianity has study and shit too , bud
Which church asks people to study? You can simply start going to a church and no one will bat an eye. I've met Christians who couldn't even read, and even the ones that can have a very limited interest in reading what they consider to be the most important book there is. As a general rule just as a casual reader I've read more of the bible than the average Christian, I definitely can't say the same about Jews since they point out that I didn't read it in Hebraic and usually know it better than I do.
Catholicism requires about a year of studying to convert or you won't be allowed to take sacraments. Although in reality no one is really checking and you could theoretically fake your way through it.
It's not required tho.
That depends on who is gatekeeping. I don't think there is any christian nation-state offering a "right to return" but i would imagine they would have a litmus test too of they did.
It does, but converting is basically the first step. You can simply just accept Jesus as your saviour, you will need to get baptised at some point and participate in communion, but that's it.
Catholics need communion, not Christians. Even baptism isn't required in Christianity, Catholicism does require it.
The only requirement is accepting Jesus as your savior. Everything else is merit badges that only deepen your involvement.
Baptism is a requirement.
Acts 2:38:
Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Mark 16:16:
Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
1 Peter 3:21:
and this water symbolises baptism that now saves you also – not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience towards God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
So is communion
John 6:53-56:
Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. [54] Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
While you can become a Christian and repentance is the most important step, baptism and communion cannot be neglected.