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Thus, for example, the Jew who is not a constitutive member of the Jewish religious community may be said to believe in God, decisively through the oral law/Torah, with Moses and the chosen people of God. Or the Muslim who is a nonconstitutive member ofthe of the Islamic religious community may be said to believe in God, decisively through the Koran, with Mohammed and all his faithful followers. Similarly, any Christian who is not her-or himself an apostle -- not a "disciple at first hand," in Kierkegaard's way of putting it, but a "disciple at second hand" -- has traditionally been said to believe in God, decisively through Jesus, with the apostles and their successors. 

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