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What Am I Doing in Arguing Theologically?

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3. What must be kept in mind, of course, is that faith in God, in the sense of trust in and loyalty to God alone as the ultimate meaning of my life, is one thing, while belief in God, in the sense of somehow affirming God's existence in affirming or denying anything whatever, something else. The most that any argument for the existence of God can possibly establish is that one must perforce believe in God, since the only alternative to such belief is either absurdity or indifference toward the clarity and consistency of one's beliefs. But no argument can culminate in faith in God, since faith in God and unfaith in God alike go beyond the conclusion of argument, as the concrete goes beyond the abstract.

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