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If You Had Written the Bible

Have you ever thought about what the Bible would be like if you had been in charge of writing or editing it? Whatever you would do, I am quite certain you would end up with something that would bear far more resemblance to a systematic theology text than the Bible we hold in our hands today. You would almost definitely scale down the narrative to scale up the plain teaching. In the end, it would probably read more like a Wikipedia entry than the Scripture God gave us. Yet when God prepared