Timeline for Is one permitted to study other religions?
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| Jan 27, 2018 at 18:00 | comment | added | msh210♦ | @Aaliyah, I don't see how that contradicts what I wrote, namely that any assurance that Judaism is right and other religions are wrong can't come from examination of other religions. You don't seem to be discussing assurances that Judaism is right and other religions are wrong. | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 20:36 | comment | added | Aaliyah | "...as no one has the time to eliminate every other (existing or possible) religion! Rather, it must be we know Judaism is correct because of internal, as opposed to comparative, reasons." That's not necessarily correct, because a person might think there are good reasons to believe in Judaism, and then only by studying other religions realize that other religions use those same reasons too (personal experiences, skip codes, fulfilled prophesies, miracle accounts, etc.). Most people think they were born into the right religion, but studying just a few others can help revise that belief. | |
| Mar 13, 2014 at 22:36 | comment | added | Mike | I agree with @msh210 that one cannot prove Judaism's correctness by comparison, but I would add that one cannot construct a purely internal proof either without the logical chain containing at least one "leap of faith". Regardless how your question on permissibility is answered, one cannot prove Judaism correct to emperical scientific standards. You could read archaeology books giving evidence of the Exodus or Rambam using Aristotelian proofs or atheists providing purely naturalistic answers, but ultimately one has to look at what they know of the world and say "I believe". | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 19:16 | comment | added | msh210♦ | @IshPloniViKohen, that doesn't follow from what I wrote; and I don't know. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 14:21 | comment | added | Ish Ploni ViKohen | So one is allowed to read books on atheism, because those question if Judaism is true internally instead of comparatively? | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 8:19 | history | edited | msh210♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 5, 2014 at 5:14 | history | answered | msh210♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |