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Most Protestant christians believe that the christian bible is divinely inspired. Everything else they believe follows from this first unprovable belief. They m
by rembicilious 4y ago
Most Protestant christians believe that the christian bible is divinely inspired. Everything else they believe follows from this first unprovable belief.
They may not accept an idea if they feel it conflicts with their personal interpretation of the christian bible, no matter how convincing the evidence.
On the other hand, some protestants are not so attached to their beliefs, and can adapt them to mesh with reality when presented with convincing evidence.
- KMag 4y agoLet's not confuse theologians with most theists. Most theists (and most atheists, for that matter) haven't delved deeply into the foundations of their belief systems.
- dickersnoodle 4y ago"Everything else they believe follows from this first unprovable belief." Not accepting an idea if they think it conflicts with their personal interpretation of the Christian Bible can be a crippling inflexibility, and it (IMO) betrays a kind of inverted hubris when it's not accompanied by a strong admonition to not be too cock-sure about one's personal interpretation, because that will evolve as a person changes through growth and experience. Not being able to do this is the source of a lot of cognitive dissonance that happens when a religious authority (operating from a prophet motive, no doubt) makes a confident prediction that winds up not coming to pass. A really recent example is all of the evangelicals who predicted that Trump would be re-elected after he provably lost the 2020 Presidential election. Some of the "prophetic community" apologized online (which they then retracted under intense pressure); most of the rest of them took refuge in "Satan stole the election!" which helped facilitate the Jan 6 insurrection.