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\u201cIn the actual practices of the Evangelical community in North America, there is an over-commitment to Scripture in a way that is false, irrational, and harmful to the cause of Christ, and it has produced a mean-spiritedness among the over-committed that is a grotesque and often ignorant distortion of discipleship unto the Lord Jesus\u201d<\/span> (J.P. Moreland<\/a>, \u201cHow Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done About It<\/a>\u201d, presentation to the 2007 Evangelical Theological Society meeting in San Diego<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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