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matter of a counter-God from whom we have to flee to the God above the world.
Now that's what is at stake in these discussions. If historical research into the biblical sources is limited in its complete scientific freedom by faith, then we have a relapse into the pagan Manichaean worldview and have given up that fundamental principle for which Christianity has fought a life-and-death struggle when it accepted the Old Testament and rejected Manichaeism.
Now to this depth, such seemingly methodological considerations must be traced. There the real decisions are made – and of course one still can decide for the one against the other side, but the decision in which I believe, which is identical with the Jewish-Christian-Islamic and most of the modern humanist tradition, is for the principle: “being-as-being is good,” historical research as historical research is good, and doesn't need to be sacrificed for the sake of salvation!