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A historical-theological breakdown in which persecution makes inherited explanations fail.
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crisis of faith
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the word of God? But when they first had that crisis of faith, when their temple was destroyed, that's when things went the wrong..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the word of God? But when they first had that crisis of faith, when their temple was destroyed, that's when things went the wrong..."
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Jiang says Jewish persecution creates three crisis questions about conversion, unjust suffering, and the absent promised land.
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The sack of Rome in 410 creates a crisis of faith because critics can argue that Christianity angered the old gods and weakened Roman strength.
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The pyramid stopped working as a civilizational promise when the 4.2 kiloyear event produced a long drought around 2200 BCE, contradicting the pyramid's claimed ability to prevent drought and control the Nile.
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The first reason pyramid building stopped is a crisis of faith: failure to control nature weakened faith in Pharaoh and contributed to the rise of the priesthood and other gods.
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"Okay? And the three big questions is the first law in the Jewish religion is do not worship false idols. That's the first law..."
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"So why is this happening? This creates a crisis of faith. Okay? And so whenever there's a crisis of faith Jews believe it is..."
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"...problem. This creates something called a crisis of power. A crisis of faith. Why? Because a lot of people believe that Rome was sacked..."
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"...way the world works, okay? So now you have a crisis of faith. And the very authority of the Catholic Church is challenged. And..."
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"And the pyramid represents the ultimate temple. Okay? Does that make sense? So the pyramid is a continuation of this sort of religious devotion..."
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"...And they failed. So this creates, first of all, a crisis of faith. Okay? A crisis of faith. Many now are forced to reject..."
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"...the word of God? But when they first had that crisis of faith, when their temple was destroyed, that's when things went the wrong..."
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"...this point in history, the Jews are suffering from a crisis of faith. A lot of Jews in the past few centuries have converted..."
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"...suffer this persecution. So all this history creates a major crisis of faith among Jewish people."
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"...So what we're seeing in the Western world is a crisis of faith and authority, right? The sort of rejection of expertise and authority,..."
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"...long as they pay the tuition so you have this crisis of faith in authority and expertise and as a result young people are..."
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"...last class with the Protestant Reformation there is now a crisis of faith because Christianity creates the idea of the individual. The individual is..."
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