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    Challenges→A transition from metaphysical dependence to conscious union with God is a coherent alternative starting point that is neither sinful nor morally neutral.

    Mystical union traditions typically presuppose prior moral purification; treating union as a coherent starting point bypasses transformative preconditions those traditions require.

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    Key Terms

    Bypasses(as used to describe belief formation that ignores reasoning)
    Goes around or skips over something rather than using it.
    Moral purification(as used in ethics and spiritual traditions)
    The process of cleaning up your character and behavior by getting rid of bad habits, selfish desires, and wrongdoing so you become a better person.
    Mystical union(the ultimate experience the soul can achieve)
    A spiritual experience where a person feels merged with the divine or ultimate reality, often described as transcendent and beyond normal understanding.
    Starting point(as used in philosophical reasoning)
    The initial assumption or foundation from which an argument or idea begins.
    Transformative preconditions

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    (as used in spiritual and philosophical traditions)
    Required steps or changes that must happen beforehand to prepare you for something bigger—like prerequisites that actually reshape who you are.
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them

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