"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
~ C. S. Lewis ~












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