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Originally Posted by ERCougar
Because believing and accepting these doctrines bring us closer to God and gives us a valuable functional moral framework.
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How can I have faith in a framework that I not only do not understand, but may be completely false?
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Originally Posted by ERCougar
Sort of like a scientist that accepts the idea that the atom is made of a nucleus of tiny positively and neutrally charged balls with various orbits of negatively charged nearly massless particles. Accepting the model allows for further progress, but no one would be so foolish as to assume that the model represents the complete picture.
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A better analogy would be assuming that because someone is a really good person, that the laws of gravity would suddenly cease to apply.
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