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A news report recently quoted Pat Robertson saying that people in other countries see more miracles than Americans do because they have less education and less skepticism. Does this mean that if, in the Exodus story, Pharoah and the Egyptians had had more education and skepticism, they could have prevented Moses\u2019 miracles and ultimately the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2970,7502,8782,11379],"class_list":["post-28363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exodus","tag-education","tag-miracles","tag-pat-robertson","tag-skepticism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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