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How do you differentiate between knowledge and belief?
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knowledge is provable, repeatable, demonstratable. faith is by its very nature none of those.
Just to help, you can't have knowledge about something that is based around faith. For example, the Bible requires faith for you to believe in God, however you can have extensive knowledge about what the Bible says without actually believing any of the religious bullshit.
One could argue that the more knowledge one has of the bible, the greater degree of faith one needs to believe in it.
At some point on that linear curve, a make or break decision needs to be made. Here, I made a graph:
indeed
But do you do any of this with what you "know"? Or do you choose to believe it because it is known?
i do what applies to events in my life and watch others do the rest snd use their examples to confirm or deny what has been posited