TKND: I still don’t understand how you define belief. Does it mean knowing that something happened factually? Does someone who simply takes someone else at his word without any investigation “believe” it then? Or does he just fail to disbelieve it? Shouldn’t belief imply some level of affirmative knowledge? If not, then what is it except a failure to disbelieve and a willingness to act in pursuance of that? And what distinguishes the guy who thinks that he can reconcile the scientific and Torah accounts of creation? Even if he’s wrong, as long as he doesn’t know he’s wrong, he thinks he knows that he believes in the Torah version.
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