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If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
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