"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

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"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."

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