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A comment on The Book of Esther and the Jewish Festival Purim. Parent comment

Re:The Book of Esther and the Jewish Festival Purim by pmarreck on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @05:21PM (#13879898)
Interesting.

Calling God "truth" sounds nice, but at least in science, what is considered "true" is constantly debated and is not a static, immutable thing. That said, if a consensus of learned people decide a new thing is true, religions should accept it IMHO

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Re:The Book of Esther and the Jewish Festival Purim by compsciphd on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:10PM (#13880322)
and the argument would be that our understanding of God increase as we understand creation even more.

on the flip side, if one's faith is based more in the god of the gaps, i.e. the "magical" aspects of creation, of course one's faith will be tested or discarded as science's knowledge increases as the gaps shrink and shrink (and fits with clark's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")

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