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Originally Posted by Phaneuf3
In usual terms, alright I'll give you that but throw a god that's able to do anything into the mix and it becomes not impossible... unless you're sitting on hard factual proof that god does not and has never existed.
"We have no proof of this story beyond a 2000 year old account that was received in a vision to a poor carpenter and was then passed down orally for about 100 years before being written down. We have no proof of such an event repeating itself since." That, IMO, is perfectly acceptable way of putting it. Maybe follow that up with a nice game of 'telephone' to see how a message can get lost being passed around a classroom... never mind passed around for 100 years.
Nobody took a side one way or another but simply laid out the facts we have regarding the story, however improbable it may be, and let the students decide for themselves.
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I understand what you're saying. I suspect you are approaching this with a bias that would make study of this type difficult for you.
It's easy for me to say we should check our preconceived notions at the door, but it's something else entirely to actually be able to do it. Maybe this is why a study of religion in the manner I've described hasn't been done in a university in any major way to my knowlege.
