{"id":96,"date":"2011-04-05T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T10:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/ask\/2011\/04\/05\/faith-as-proven\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T03:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T00:04:24","slug":"faith-as-proven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/faith-as-proven\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith as proven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> If, as you write, &#171;The Jew is required to believe only that which has been proven to be correct.&#187; How can a Jew be required to believe in Rambam&#8217;s 13 articles of faith: including Revelation, resurection of the dead, or indeed even an omnipotent, historically-involved, incorporeal and eternal God?<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>&nbsp;If, as you write elsewhere in this site, &#171;The Jew is required to believe only that which has been proven to be correct- whether that proof be based purely on the intellectual faculties or historical-factual evidence gathered by the senses.&#187; How can a Jew be required to believe in any or all of Rambam&#8217;s 13 articles of faith: including Revelation, resurection of the dead, or indeed even an omnipotent, historically-involved, incorporeal and eternal God?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A. The answer is very simple. The basis of the veracity of Judaism is the historical&nbsp;fact of Revelation, which left its imprint on the collective identity of the&nbsp;Hebrew people. Any of the articles of faith derive from this point and not&nbsp;from speculative thinking.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: If, as you write, &#171;The Jew is required to believe only that which has been proven to be correct.&#187; How can a Jew be required to believe in Rambam&#8217;s 13 articles of faith: including Revelation, resurection of the dead, or indeed even an omnipotent, historically-involved, incorporeal and eternal God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2961],"tags":[2991,2993,2995,2997],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-concepts","tag-faith-en","tag-historical-proof-en","tag-rambam-en","tag-thirteen-principles-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7962,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}