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I served as an expert witness for the prosecution in the federal case against Brian David Mitchell, the man who abducted Elizabeth Smart, both at his competency hearing and, a year later, in his actual criminal trial. \u00a0Manifestly, it was Mitchell, not Elizabeth Smart, who was the wrongdoer in that story. \u00a0She was an innocent victim. \u00a0She had done nothing of which she needed to repent.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 We cannot and must not abandon the standards that the Lord has revealed. \u00a0 However, we also cannot and must not ignore the (umm, rather centrally important) doctrine of the atonement of Christ, and of repentance, grace, and forgiveness. \u00a0 Elizabeth Smart raises an important issue here to which we need to give […]<\/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-36374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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