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“We were not saved for wealth, health, and power with an always once saved attitude and your blessed t-shirt beating your religious pride chest but that the Son of God might be manifested in your mortal flesh! Nothing more and nothing less!”

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Book:Fact Or Fiction; God's Math Or Myth
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Fact Or Fiction; God's Math Or Myth

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