For one thing, their people still is the elected people, as saint Paul himself recalls it in his letter to the Romans, chapters 9, 10, 11, If they seek to observe the Commandments of God in the Torah… why should they go to Hell? They don’t recognize Jesus as the Son of God nor as their Messiah, but it might be a case of invincible ignorance, so we must be very careful not to hastily say: “Oh sure! They are certainly going to Hell!”, we don’t know that yet, and we might be very wrong…
Let’s leave this to God. As for us, just like with anyone else, we are asked to love them not just when they love us, but even when they don’t! Love them not because they are lovable, but because God loves them and Jesus called us to love our neighbour (including the Jew) as He did, and He sure did!
They do have one major benifit compaired to most other religions: direct revelation from God. That is big.
Yes, Jews go to hell. They also go to heaven and purgatory. It all depends on the state of that individual Jew. ONly God knows who goes where, and in the end we will all know why.
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