Dear Avira,
Without heavy influence from some misinformed maskil, why would chazal only be truthful when darshaning a possuk? Similarly, who is the one to decide when a gemara has conclusions and when it is not? You completely missed this point a hundred times. But let’s try a hundred and one.
You do not believe one bit of chazal to be truthful. You demand for yourself the right to arbitrate every word of every talmid chacham ever. And if no arbitration is possible you just write him off completely.
Sorry for the strong words. I’m hoping my point is clear, now. The fact is that there are yeshiva guys saying Slifkin is an apikorus and also chazal had some silly idea that we could eat bugs in fish.
Many great people wrote long essays on how to approach the pursuit of the truth. If a learning guy has no interest in that then fine. It seems like a contradiction, but it is his life. If he is so insecure about his own objectivity, that’s his own issue. Nobody should abandon the truth, because somebody else is afraid of it.
If this whole pilpul shell hevel was true, than why couldn’t the Rambam and Ramban address it in the shoroshim? And the blatant fact is, that they both wrote about believing chazal dozens of times. And they do not have your dogma. Not one drop of it. They talk about proof and evidence and ??? the last part they do not call it trusting chazal, get ready for this. They call it some funny word….. EMES.