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Soren Kierkegaard claimed that all truth (in particular, religious truth) is subjective, inward, and immediate, not objective and universal. Kierkegaard argued that faith is not a belief but a sense of "trust" in someone. He asserted that one ultimately must make a "leap of faith" to believe in the saving message of Jesus. Kierkegaard's approach has come to be called existentialism. Do you agree with this position?

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I do not agree with this position because truth is not subjective, truth is a statistical fact or certainty, such as what goes up must come down within the ...

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