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Objective vs. Subjective Beliefs

What we’ve been considering is an important aspect of our

question about beliefs controlling how we think about dying and
death.

To be a true belief, the Supreme Court says that the belief we

subscribe to must be founded on some OBJECTIVE, reliable

authority or criteria. If it is not, then it is only a preference. It is
merely SUBJECTIVE in nature.

In other words, if people believe something just because it

‘sounds good to them,’ this is not a belief as defined by the

Court. Just because something ‘sounds good,’ does not cut the
mustard.

Beliefs must have authority to support them, like the Constitution

is intended to support the rulings of our Supreme Court.

I have trouble relating and communicating with Christians who

say they do not believe the Bible: we have no foundation for a

discussion.

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