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Mitt on the Bible

Phil, I think his answer's sound and comprehensible. I can't begin to think what "word for word" actually means. "Sentence for sentence" not good enough? Literalism is a terribly modern way of reading a text, and God's word revealed through man, over many many years, can only confirm, as true as it is, that we see through a glass darkly.

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