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The wedding-dispute story teaches followers to win through argument and learning by exposing contradictions in sacred law.
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The wedding-dispute story teaches followers to win through argument and learning by exposing contradictions in sacred law.
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Abraham's bargaining with Yahweh makes divine-human friendship depend on honest argument rather than passive obedience.
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Jiang's First Temple Yahweh is a fallible, sensitive poet God whose friendship with David makes Israel possible and whose worship requires argument and growth.
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Faith and love of God require arguing with God, because only argument allows a fallible God to learn and grow.
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"All right, can you read, Alan? It is a custom during the Jewish wedding that a distinguished person sit by the groom. I wanted..."
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"...If you want to win the world, you do so through argument, through learning, by showing the stupidity of people. And this is very..."
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"in the 19th century in Warsaw, all the top lawyers in Warsaw are Frankists, okay? Because Franks don't teach you how to think for..."
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"sweep away the righteous with the wicked suppose there are 50 righteous within the city will you then sweep away the place not forgive..."
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"suppose five of our 50 are lacking there's only 45 we can't find 50. don't you think we should still forgive some some gamara..."
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"The elite people, okay? King David, his family, and the priests, and maybe other people in the elite. Okay? Second thing is it is..."
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"...to argue with God. Because it's only for the price of argument that God who's fallible will learn and grow. So when you argue..."
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