“God has made Himself knowable through the Bible.”

Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)

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Canadian clinical psychologist and author 1952

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“In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God;
all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
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