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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my brother is a priest, and from his experience, "smart" people will examine the evidence, the assumptions, the premises, the possibilities, and the conclusions, and then they will make a decision.  That decision is one of faith based on reason, but primarily, it is an act of the will, an act of submission and obedience.  The intellect can bring you so far, faith can bring you farther, but if you still say, "My will, not Thine," it doesn't matter.

My husband is an adult convert from Hinduism/agnosticism.  Even after he intellectually accepted the probability that Jesus is who he claimed to be, he insisted he could never be Christian, because he was South Asian, and to be Christian would be to betray who he was.  It took a profound act of the will to overcome his ingrained repulsion for all things Christian.  And it was a matter of allegiance--"Lord, to whom should we go?  You have the words of everlasting life."

So the possibilities regarding Jesus are limited, and you get to choose among them.  We all do.  But it is not blind faith, it is not pure reason, and it can be deep prejudice and personal pride in the way of both faith and reason.[/quote]

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