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Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.
N. T. Wright
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N. T. Wright
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
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I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.
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All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.
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The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.
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