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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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