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The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

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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