Rambam's "Perfect Faith"
Rambam says in his 10'th Principal: "I believe with perfect faith that the entire Torah that we now have is that which was given to Moses." Rambam considers any Jew who does not agree with this principal (and the other 12 principals) to be a heretic who will not be rewarded with an afterlife.
However, we have strong, objective evidence from textual criticism, archeology, and other sciences, that the Torah was written by various authors over a long time span. The clinical definition of delusion according to University of Michigan Medical Center (which offers treatment for psychiatric patients) is: "A firm, fixed idea not amenable to rational explanation and maintained despite objective evidence to the contrary..."
How is it possible to meet Rambam's criteria while avoiding delusion at the same time? Or is the afterlife only for the delusional or the ignorant (of the contradictory evidence)?
posted by Blogmaster @ 5:06 AM
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you make a good point. they will however argue on your points of "objective Rational Evidence" you have to really see how obvious this rational evidence is from archeology or sciense or whatever because some of them are really smart and say it all fits in. so the arguement is on the facts and they could possibly not be delusional as numerous books have been written to say the documentary hypothesis is bullshit you can email me to talk further.
David, I would love to talk more about this - either here on the blog or over email. I don't have access to your email address so, if you like, email me at webmaster@askanatheist.org
I would love to see more evidence if you know of any, including evidence against the documentary hypothesis. I have heard arguments against but I haven't found anything very compelling.
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