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Look when someone believes something is true it is true for them until they are shown otherwise..

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Perhaps we are arguing apples and oranges. You are not differentiating between "it is true for them" and "reality." The word for what your describing is "delusion."

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A delusion is an unshakable belief in something untrue.

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Let's take a specific God.... Zeus. In reality, he either exists or he does not. Whether or not you believe in him has no bearing on the truth of the matter.

All you're saying is 'people believe what they believe'... fine. We both agree. What is NOT right is WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE=REALITY.

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The answer to this is that "we do not question God's wisdom or reason for doing things" Perhaps God did protect the Christian by making him not suffer or bringing him to heaven after his death. There might be many expalnations for the death not countering the belief that the christian was being protected.


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But you're contradicting yourself. You are asserting that if someone believes in something then it is real. If believing something made it real, then simply believing the lion would not hurt him would have to mean the lion would not hurt him.

He was delusional. His beliefs did not reflect reality. I believe you're playing semantics trying to salvage the lion story when, clearly the man thought the lion wasn't going to kill him.