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To: GunRunner

If the truth of Exodus doesn’t matter, why do you spend time presenting your argument against it? As your first and only example?

There are two kinds of belief: belief in the fact of a thing, and belief in the ethos of a thing.

For example, even the demons of hell believe in the fact of Christ’s divinity—what they lack is a belief in the ethos of it. The latter position motivates them to lie about the former.


476 posted on 05/14/2014 9:54:36 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith
If the truth of Exodus doesn’t matter, why do you spend time presenting your argument against it? As your first and only example?

It's a good example that encompasses both the mythology aspect of the Old Testament and a lack of historical and archaeological evidence. Beliefs don't really affect facts. Something is fact regardless of whether people believe it or not.

477 posted on 05/15/2014 6:46:39 AM PDT by GunRunner
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