Faith Starts With Understanding
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Hello, I am going through the whole Bible for the first time, and am starting to feel like a little kid. I remember when I was really young and my family and I would go through the Bible some, I had a lot of questions and things that would click. Well, now even more so. I am discovering new things in the Bible and feel like "I am sure somebody has already noticed that," but it is pretty new to me, even though I have been raised in a Christian home my whole life and gone to church my whole life. I have tried to get to know God through other means, but I haven't really gone through and tried hard to understand the Bible. My church is going through the Bible and I am way behind, but my goal with this "Blog" is to post my discoveries so that others that are like me can go along with me and maybe we can grow together.
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