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Literal Quotes by John Shelby Spong
- The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
- "I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven…
- I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
- Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the…
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