When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.
People believe what they want to believe.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.