2) How should we communicate God as a reality? ... Some would think that they just led the people into confusion, making them not to believe in the Greek gods as the source of all things. ... After realizing the error in the attempts of the ancient Greeks, the medievalists may have thought that maybe it was the other way around. ... Many Christians at that time thought philosophy as an instrument of the devil because it was a source of errors and heresies. ... Hence it is thought that the first cause of the universe can be apprehended by faith alone....

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Can it render service in post-Hume discussions? ... The cause must be proportioned to the effect. ... With humans one can infer from effect to cause and then infer anew concerning the effect because we have other corroborating experience about humans, from motives to operations. ... "We can never be allowed to mount up from the universe, the effect, to Jupiter, the cause, and then descend downward to infer a ny new effect from that cause . . . . The knowledge of the cause being derived solely from the effect, they must be exactly adjusted to each other; and the one can never refer to anything ...

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If one wants to learn how to live a life of faith, he only needs to look at the life of Abraham. ... Because of this error, Israel is constantly bumping heads with the Arabs. ... The last problem that Abram causes is by bringing Lot. ... Because Abram couldn't be patient, he caused a HUGE problem. ... We can shake our heads at Abraham for lying about Sarai or we can point the fingers at ourselv...

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Secondly, the matter of how to live concerns all people. ... Heschel warns us that "ultimate ideas can never be expressed." ... Thus, the words of the Bible may lead us to error if we insist upon accepting them through our "literal mindedness." ... We can achieve certainty in our beliefs by way of our assured pact with God. ... Faith can never lie in the realm of argumentation. ...

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