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A comment on Facebook yesterday seemed to me it would be a great premise for a science fiction story. What if it turned out that the Bible originated in a parallel universe, on an Earth that was literally covered by a solid dome, and thus really was literally and scientifically accurate \u2013 just not when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,86],"tags":[1140,2784,3447,6618,8705],"class_list":["post-19775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-science-fiction","tag-bible","tag-dome","tag-firmament","tag-literal","tag-parallel-universe"],"yoast_head":"\n
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