What results would you expect?

[Zzyzx]

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What results would you expect if seminary students were assigned to read C&A sub-forum posts for a month and write an analysis?

Would you expect different results if adults attending Sunday school were asked to do the same thing – or students taking a college course in comparative religions?

[Divine Insight]

Typically seminary students, Sunday school students, "Bible Studies", and even academic Theology all tend to assume that a God exists and that the Bible is "God's Word" (at least in some capacity), and thus the purpose of these studies it not to question this foundational premise but instead to try to make sense of the scriptures with the assumption that the foundational premise is already true.

In fact, anyone who claims to be a "Theologian" but who also claims to believe that the Bible is not from any God, and perhaps even questions the existence of a God entirely, is typically branded to be an insincere theologian. An impostor who is actually out to belittle and destroy theology, not contribute to it.

Theology is one of the rare academic studies that allows for the conclusions to be drawn first, and then the questions begin. (i.e. Let's conclude that God exists, and that God is the inspiration for the scriptures we are studying). Then, and only then, does theology move forward with trying to apologize for the scriptures and the God that they have already concluded must exist.

The only people on your list who might be interested in actually questioning the existence of a God at all, might be those students taking a course on "comparative religions". Some of those students may actually be highly skeptical or even potentially convinced atheists, who are simply interested in seeing what all humans have come up with in the way of thinking about a supposed God.

But no, I don't see where seminary students, or Sunday school students would be interested in questioning the existence of their presumed God.

And in the case of Sunday school students, they are most likely there being indoctrinated by the religious machine. Therefore they would probably be discouraged from even reading the opinions of any non-believing heathens.

Or if they were encourage, they would only be encouraged to see if they could come up with even stronger apologies to support the Fundamental Premise that God must exist.

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I think we need to keep in mind also, that religious people who are already convinced of the existence of a God actually see it as their "duty" to work hard to defend against any and all arguments that bring into question the existence or character of their God.