Noahide Law and Christianity - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

a Christian be a righteous noi right non-jews have to keep the seven Commandments of Noah they don't have to be Jewish and we don't try to even encourage conversion but they do have to keep the seven Mitzvah of Noah and one of those mitzvos is not to worship idolatry not to worship aod Zora and to believe in one God so the obvious question is can I be a right or not can can a be a righteous Gentile if they are a professing Christian so this is a huge huge huge M it is the sheet of the rambam that Christianity of course this is pre-reformation so he was talking about probably not even Catholicism he was probably talking about Coptic Coptic Church in Egypt and the like but is the sheet of the rambam that those who believe in Jesus those who believe in yesu arear they are idolators number one because they have a trinity uh of the notion of dividing God into multiple parts and number two because they assign a physical body to the Divinity which is also a form of a vodar the rambam on the other hand did maintain that Islam is not a vodar it's a monotheistic religion he actually hated Islam well he hated Muslims because he said they oppressed Jews more than anyone else ever did and he called Muhammad a muga uh but at least in terms of aora he gave Islam a pass on the that it's not aora and Al that is why it is M for a Jew to go into a mosque uh is built a mosque is built over when you go to Davin at the Kev of AR or whatever you are daving in a mosque and that is permitted you wouldn't be allowed to go into a church because that's a what if it is no longer used as a church it's only a museum that okay that's a question but certainly you cannot go into an active church so so according to the rambam it's very very clear that a Christian is not keeping the seven Mitzvah of Noah on the other hand we have the she of rabam rashi's grandson who lived in Catholic France and he made a very interesting distinction he said that a profession of Christianity would be idolatry for a Jew a Jew's definition of how to serve God would render Christianity uh Pagan but it is not a violation of the Noah law meaning not that it's true it's not that oh it's true for a go and not for a Jew I mean it's either false or true but a who professes Christianity can still be considered a monotheist and in compliance with the seven Commandments of Noah this is also the view of thei one of theim so as a result um you know you can tell the non-jewish friends that there are views that would consider consider this to be a fulfillment of the noahide law there are other views that argue and therefore speak to your noahide Rabbi about which way which way to go so this is a huge huge M that has many many ramifications uh for example according to the Hal I mean not that I mean Israel doesn't follow this but there is a that a non-jew who has not accepted the Noah laws is not allowed to live in erel so if you took position like the ramban that uh Christianity is OAR then Christians would not be allowed to live in the land of Israel um obviously uh if we permit Christians living here we're following the sh of Raben now I have to say though I do have to say that there is auson if that is R meaning the normal way rabam is presented Ed is Christianity is not aora for a non-jew right that's how RAB is normally paraphrased in fact the na Yehuda has a whole other interpretation of RA and was also mod but a Jew does not have a Prohibition of causing a Christian to swear by yashka and he goes through the idea of what is a Jew's responsibility Not to cause an oath to idolatry so according to Yehuda you'd have no hope meaning uh the Christian is indeed Anar uh but as I say most understand ream the uh conventional way