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David Hayward posted this cartoon, under the title \u201cTwo Differing Views of Church\u201d: One could do the same with the Bible, Jesus, and just about anything else. And Christians have had these discussions, and disagreed about the answers to them, as far back as we can trace. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,101],"tags":[1846,1880,10712],"class_list":["post-15331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-theology","tag-christianity-religion","tag-church","tag-salvation"],"yoast_head":"\n
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