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Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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