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Originally Posted by peacegirl
Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on your ability to put your beliefs aside long enough to hear his entire demonstration. If you have no intention of learning anything because you have already decided that he's wrong, you will never understand why these principles are true.
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If you cannot do anything more than vouch for him and hope that we can see the truth of these things
for ourselves, then you are not in any position to
help us understand why they are true. This is an incredibly simple and obvious point.
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
I know the claims are correct but until you grasp the principles and realize that he was right after all, I can only keep pressing forward in the hope you finally get it. I don't know if or when this will happen but this has no bearing on the validity of this knowledge. In the meantime all I can do is vouch for him.
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If all you can do is vouch for him, then you do
not know his claims to be correct. If you actually had
knowledge rather than mere
faith then you would be in a position to give rational
reasons for thinking his claims were correct instead of merely asserting that they are by vouching for him.
What you have is not knowledge.
It is faith. And that is why you are incapable of convincing anyone else of its validity.