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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Faith and fact
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:07:20 +0300


----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>
To: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>; "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Dinah raped?


Dear Yigal,

It is not a statement of faith if it is based on fact.

What is? "That the Bible has an intrisic 'true' meaning, which previous generations simply did not understand but which we now do"? That's FACT and not faith?


It is a statement of
faith if it is not based on fact. Faith and fact (knowledge, reason) go hand
in hand. The one cannot exist without the other.

No. One uses faith in order to fill in the gaps in fact. "Reason" is a matter of faith.

Yigal Levin







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