Posted: Apr 04, 2011 1:02 pm
SkyMutt wrote:Does a Jew have to follow all 613 of the laws laid down in their holy book to be Jewish?
No. "Jewish" doesn't just refer to the Hebrew religion. The same word is used to refer to the ethnic group. Some atheists are Jewish.
Does a Christian have to "love the Lord God with all [their] heart, and with all [their] soul, and with all [their] mind" (not to mention all the other stuff enjoined by the Bible) to be Christian ?
Yes. "Christian" doesn't refer to an ethnic group at all. It just refers to a system of belief. There are Arab Christians, black Christians, Slavic Christians, (etc. etc.)