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When a person reveres the writings of their society's founding fathers and considers them virtually infallible, it's helpful to understand that they were raised with a belief framework shaped around apostles and testaments.

When a person is certain that an all-powerful entity will arise, and that a single person will shape and bind humanity's relationship with that entity through legalistic discourse, it's helpful to understand that they were raised with a belief framework around prophets and messiahs who bargain with an all-powerful god to define covenants.