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VFTB 148: Christians Are Wild Beasts

On: June 30, 2013

SO THOUGHT the Roman emperor we know as Julian the Apostate. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus recorded his observation that “no wild beasts are so hostile to men as Christians are to one another.” Sadly, Julian was more right than we’d like to admit. Nothing can set a group of believersContinue Reading

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