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Alvin Plantinga on Religious Belief and No Guarantees

Warranted Christian Belief, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 63.

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)