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In order for the common bible to be legitimate at all, then the repeated messages throughout it in most of the books about the need for faith, which is to believe without seeing proof or to believe before proof....For Christians, does news like this challenge Bible faith by possibly demystifying certain events? Or strengthen it by corroborating them?
Require that no clear evidence of God that would just prove God exists be available.
If there were any clear outright proof of some key thing that just just plainly proves God exists, then much in the bible (or certainly the New Testament) would be invalid.
Make sense?
Here's a helpful verse to illustrate what faith is:
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
Actually, this Hebrew chapter 11 (which you can read in about 2 minutes) is very helpful to help show that faith is one of the key overall themes of the entire Old Testament:
Hebrews 11 NIV
(and it has a message about seeking God...)
The entire Old Testament is about a few things, and faith is one of the 2 most prominent things, the other being the Law (the effort to establish the Rule of Law).
So....therefore, a way to make faith possible by hiding God's hand would be for many miraculous things seem simply naturally possible -- so that a skeptic that wishes to reject God could think it was only a natural event, happening by chance.
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