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Doug Shaver · 01-20-2009, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by rhutchin

How do you determine if what you read in the Bible "seems unlikely to be true"?

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Originally Posted by Doug Shaver

By comparing it with what I think I have learned about the real world after 63 years of living in it and studying how it works.

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Originally Posted by rhutchin

That would seem very limiting I think.

Indeed?

Well, I do always try to keep an open mind. What alternative would you suggest? Should I assume that everything I think I've learned is a crock? If not all of it, which parts of my life's education do you think I should ignore when I read the Bible?

And should I do that only when I read the Bible, or should I do it whenever I read any other book as well?

Doug Shaver · 01-20-2009, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by rhutchin

I do not mean to disapprove of presuppositions. They merely identify the boundaries within which a person operates and are not to be approved or disapproved, merely recognized for what they do.

Fair enough.

I would add that we should always consider our presuppositions subject to revision when we are confronted with sufficient evidence that they are mistaken. The key problem, of course, is being able to recognize when that evidence has become sufficient.

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