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Sep 2024
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The Bible Triggered Two Communications R...

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For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. But it has been received by different cultures and language groups in (sometimes) radically different ways.  Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a... 
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