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On the face of it, one would appear to be able to object, in principle, that the objectification of the original church's consciousness of faith, which is given in Holy Scripture, is not authentic and pure – -- in which case, it's not clear to me how one would go about defending the initial claim. (Of course, it's not any more clear how one would go about supporting this kind of possible objection to it.) In any event, the original claim as made seems to be the kind of claim that would allow – -- and require – -- this sort of discussion, because it would allow – -- and require – -- the kind of doubt or question that only such discussion would in principle be able to remove, however difficult or impossible it might be in fact to conduct such discussion.

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