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To: C Kahn who wrote (55659)	7/9/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>There is more involved in belief than interpretation of passages. I believe we have a spiritual connection to God, which confirms belief and clarifies understanding of words, regardless of phrasing, grammar, etc. I think you have to know in the spirit before you can understand the writing.< Perhaps. I agree that a faith that is little more than intellectual parsing of what the texts say and not having an instinct for their deeper meaning is hardly a faith at all. We've all met people like that and they are not very rewarding to be around. But sometimes the assumption that the believer has an instinctual knowledge of what the text means becomes an excuse for being unwilling to read carefully and think hard. 'Instinct' should not become a replacement for thought. And so I would suggest that if a believer and an unbeliever are discussing a text they should be able to agree on what a text means. The difference is that the believer believes that meaning and the unbeliever doesn't.