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Via The New Testament Stumblr<\/a> I discovered Jeremiah Bailey\u2019s blog, which had the delightful cartoon below<\/a> illustrating one of the many problems with inerrancy: the extreme lengths to which it often requires one to go in order to harmonize discrepancies.
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