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If Marxsen is right-as he argued in the first of his three lectures-that one does not and cannot believe that events occurred, because one can only be informed, mediately if not immediately, that events have occurred,-if he is right about this, then one does not and cannot believe that "Jesus believed God." That Jesus believed God could only be an event that occurred, in the same way in which the fact, if it be a fact, that Jesus was raised from the dead could only be an event. And that the first occurred, exactly as that the second occurred, one can only be informed, whether by one's own first-hand experience or by accepting a report based on someone else's first-hand experience as a true report.

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