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CAN YOU DENY MIRACLES OR SUPERNATURAL REPORTED BY THE CHOSEN PEOPLE?
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159. THE CREDIBILITY OF THE JEWISH TRADITION

THE CREDIBILITY OF TRADITION AS PART OF A WHOLE

Additionally, a number of other considerations must be added which strengthen the credibility of the Jewish tradition.

Not all traditions are to be considered equal. There are stories that are easy to convince people to believe, even if they did not really happen, and there are stories that are very difficult to get people to accept as true if they are not really presented in the best light. When we want to find out the credibility of a tradition, we must ask ourselves the following question: How easy or difficult would it have been to create such a false tradition, if the event had not really taken place? The more difficult it is to make people believe in an event, the more likely it is that the tradition is true.

As we shall now see, the Jewish tradition has a number of characteristics that strengthen its credibility, in that they illustrate how difficult it is to “implant” such a false story in the national memory of the people of the Book:

1. The event described by tradition is a founding national event.

2. The same event was witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people.

3. Tradition testifies to a direct connection between the people who believe in it today and those who witnessed the event in the past.

4. The event in question is exceptional in light of the events occurring in that period.

We will now examine these characteristics one by one.

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YOUR SOUL NEEDS SPIRITUALITY BUT YOU ONLY TRUST REALITY & FACTS

In the spiritual world reside the forces that operate our lives in daily reality. Get to know them, because your happiness depends on them.

While we are selfish creatures with survival mechanisms and animal instincts to achieve more than we need, we’re also wired (DNA & neurotheology) for spirituality and to live for the greater good, for the higher self. For that reason, we are wired to protect our spouse, our family, our country, and be connected to a higher spirituality we call GOD (whatever it is).

We seek to connect to the highest authority which is above human sensual perception. We seek a GOD to be our ultimate guide. Not the GOD that the religions created for us with endless restrictions and imaginary hell and heaven, but the true real GOD.

This book sums up thousands of years and debates to one practical conclusion: is it good for humans to have and believe in (a) GOD or not.

While emerging in the debate, keep an open mind and ignore any religious misconception of who GOD really is. You are here because you care to know if there is a higher authority and if your life will be more fulfilled with GOD in it. You want to know if spirituality is good for you.

WHEN DO YOU FEEL SPIRITUALITY?

The spirit is invisible, but it is revealed in every phenomenon in life that means oneness. It is revealed the moment you look into a person’s eyes and discover that you both feel the same. Spirituality is revealed as soon as you do something that makes others a caravan of joy. It is revealed the moment someone refers to you and you refer to him, and you are both aware of each other’s existence. As a Roman poet so beautifully put it: “Outside all the notions of good and evil there is a field. Will you meet me there?”

Socrates was said to have not come from Athens, but from the world. You and I are two aspects of one reality, united and all-embracing. In unity no differences are eliminated. For things to unite, they do not have to lose their individual identities.  In unity only the separation between them is abolished, which is the difference in value and importance. Then it turns out that everything is one thing.

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