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How Hyperbole Dulls Our Spiritual Discernment

By Filings on Wed, 04/21/21
Christian Living
Discernment
Rhetoric
Hyperbole

“By all means let us continue to be passionate for the truth and to use rhetoric and hyperbole when it is appropriate. But let us also lower the temperature so that we don’t attack others with rhetoric and hyperbole that will embarrass us on the last day.” - Thomas Schreiner

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