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A recent New York Times piece\u00a0referred to God as a question rather than an answer, and so it seemed appropriate to reshare the above image, which is based on things I said on this blog back in 2009 and more recently in 2013. Of related interest, see Pete Enns\u2019 blog post on Jesus\u2019 lack of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":16056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n
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