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Originally Posted by OBW
I know I have said this many times, and I assume you have heard it from me. But if not, here it is again. Studies show that things that have been taught and accepted as true for some period of time will be held as true despite later evidence (overwhelming and incontrovertible) that it is actually false by more than 50 percent of people.
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Hey, now yer "stealing" my line!
Yes, I do believe that to be true too. And as my wife is fond of quoting, "A mind convinced against its will, is simply of the same mind still." I am prone to it. You are prone to it. We all are! And as Thomas Sowell astutely points out in his seminal book, "A Conflict of Visions," what we accept as true or not is largely governed by the vision one has previously accepted. This is why the energies we expend trying to convince others of our perspective is frequently an uphill battle, to say the least!
With all that said, it just seems simple to me to accept both the disobedience thing and the eating thing as I see both in scripture. Plus,
it's not one of those core, essential items of the faith that I feel a need to die on that hill for. What am I really missing by believing my way or your way in this case?