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Originally Posted by levite
How not? If religion is a search for big-T Truth-- and I think, among other things, it is-- it makes a poor beginning to shy away from small-T truths. Or maybe that's just me....
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I don't think it's just you, but there is a big teaching in the church (the handful of churches that I've been through), that turns the idea of strong/weakness of faith on it's head and I think it explains reactions to stuff like this.
I would think that a strong faith is one that is ready to take all comers, evaluate claims and arguments against it, a faith that is willing to self doubt on the conviction that your faith will overcome.
They taught a strong faith as one that will not consider alternative ideas, one that is rooted in unmoving, uncompromising, absolute faith as it was revealed to them regardless of anything else, even internal contradictions. Strong faith is a refusal to examine alternative small-T truths - alternatives need not be considered if you are already certain that they're wrong.
Thus you get statements like 'The King James is the whole and complete Bible and all others are false testaments and the work of the devil.' as a sign of 'strong' faith.