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\u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s fashionable, in some circles, to maintain not only that Jesus isn\u2019t the Son of God but that he never even existed in the first place. \u00a0 This is silliness. \u00a0 Which my Deseret News column for today tries, diplomatically, to suggest: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865619115\/The-evidence-for-Jesus-is-early-and-powerful.html \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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