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Via Pinterest<\/a>. Einstein is purported to have said \u201cMake everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.\u201d Whatever you think of the Bible, those thoughts should reflect what the Bible actually is. And there are a great many people who embrace it or reject it not as a complex compilation of diverse literature, but on the basis of a mistaken illusion that it is something else, something much simpler, clearer, and very different from the actual Bible.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"