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Why is it that the ancients got signs and miracles out the ass but today we're expected to take god's truth absolutely on faith?

If god truly loves us, even to the extent a human parent loves their child, why is it more important to him that we believe in and worship him without proof than it is to secure the salvation of our immortal souls?

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Windsylph · F

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Interesting question...

Today, we call many things “proof” because we have the advantage of hindsight. However, many religious scholars and researchers agree, there is a fair amount of anecdotal evidence to suggest that the ancients did not embrace what today (looking back) we call proof. Much of what appears as proof today, was actually experienced as intuition or inexplicable events, but not assigned to “proof”.

Historically, proof is a difficult animal to pin down. We doubt proof. We often can't agree unanimously on what proves something.

In my opinion, we receive as much “proof” today, as the ancients did… and we often experience it no more clearly than they did.