A Christian study center where I attended university did a course one winter on the theology of Calvin and Hobbes. Of all the courses on offer, of course that was the one that wouldn’t fit my schedule!
I think the second part is unclear about the meaning of the word “belief” in the first part. But that vagueness is where the switch lies: used as is common, i.e. “Yeah, I agree with that”, then belief in God is quite often the conclusion of an argument, but used as Jesus and the New Testament use it one has to step beyond the argument into trust.
That was always an amazing thing in our informal intelligent design club, where a former atheist who due to studying science had reached the first use of “belief”, and after a journey of deciding that the Bible was the best candidate for being communication from the Designer, reached the next step of belief as trust. The truly amazing moments were when someone had reached that point without realizing it, when they suddenly recognized that they’d moved on from assent to trust quite some time earlier.
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Given the introductory comment “about factual reality”, I find that the juxtaposition of the two quotes is itself a commentary.