Many of my students ask me when I speak about holy sites in Israel, "Mr. Fuller, how do you know that is really the site where it happened." My response is always, "I don't." Then I tell them, and this is where faith comes in, that for thousands of years people have been coming to this site to remember this event. Their footprints are carved in to the stone. What makes this site a holy site is not whether I believe it is the actual site that the holy event took place. What makes this site holy is that for thousands of years people have known and believed this site to be holy and have venerated it and made it so. Now that is faith
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