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$\"Genesis$ <\/p>\n

Perhaps it would be interesting to go through the entire Bible, crossing out the things that people ignore or twist to mean something else, and replacing those words with others in red that reflect what people insist that the Bible says, even though it doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n

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