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Mar 2023
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#11 Don’t Put God in a Box: And Other Co...

Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain
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Theological conversations can be stopped in their tracks if someone simply pulls out the old, “Don’t put God in a box!” The most common way this phrase is used is by those who don’t want to be confined by the moral teachings of the Bible. Today, Natasha and Alisa discuss the implications and logical inconsistencies of this conversation stopper.

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