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If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

J. Vernon McGee

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J. Vernon McGee
Age: 84 †
Born: 1904
Born: June 17
Died: 1988
Died: December 1
Theologian
Hillsboro
Texas
John Vernon McGee
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When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the truth that they might be saved, they will believe the big lie.
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When God speaks, when the Word speaks, energy is translated into matter. What is atomic fission? It is matter translated back into energy—poof! it disappears. Creation began with energy. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.
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