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Is it not a concession to rationalism to say of every unpalatable Biblical story “I have not got to believe it absolutely”?

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I have never made that concession. We have to believe the Bible absolutely, but according to the exact sense intended by the Bible. If you think that we do not believe it absolutely because we do not subscribe to what you think ought to be the sense, that is no fault of ours. Nor is such an attitude of mind rational.

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