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added footnotes on the elegance of the Greek in the Epistle to the Hebrews
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*[[Christianity]], in contrast with [[atheism]] and other religions, urges searching for the truth with [[logic]] and [[faith]], and taking the less-traveled road;<ref>''See, e.g.'', [[Matthew, Chapter 7|Matthew 7:13-14]].</ref>
 
*[[Christianity]], in contrast with [[atheism]] and other religions, urges searching for the truth with [[logic]] and [[faith]], and taking the less-traveled road;<ref>''See, e.g.'', [[Matthew, Chapter 7|Matthew 7:13-14]].</ref>
 
*phenomenal music, art, and writings were inspired by Christianity: ''e.g.'', "all men are created equal" and "to err is human / to forgive, divine";
 
*phenomenal music, art, and writings were inspired by Christianity: ''e.g.'', "all men are created equal" and "to err is human / to forgive, divine";
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*the [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] is a spectacular literary masterpiece -- among the finest Greek writing ever -- which was beyond the local ability of anyone other than [[Jesus]] as the [[Son of God]]; and
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*the [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] is a spectacular literary masterpiece -- among the finest Greek writing ever<ref>"In fact the author of the Epistle shows great familiarity with the rules of the Greek literary language of his age. ... His writing may even be included among those examples of artistic Greek prose whose rhythm recalls the parallelism of Hebrew poetry." [https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07181a.htm] -- which was beyond the local ability of anyone other than [[Jesus]] as the [[Son of God]];<ref>[[Paul]] was among the elite in the [[Middle East]], but the [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] is far above the [[Greek]] writings by Paul.</ref> and
 
*the [[Shroud of Turin]], impossible to replicate and unexplained by non-believers, confirms an intense flash of light in the [[Resurrection]].<ref>Non-believers cling to a 1988 carbon-dating of a corner sample containing cotton fibers, which was not an uncontaminated original. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPLEu1MMYfo]</ref>
 
*the [[Shroud of Turin]], impossible to replicate and unexplained by non-believers, confirms an intense flash of light in the [[Resurrection]].<ref>Non-believers cling to a 1988 carbon-dating of a corner sample containing cotton fibers, which was not an uncontaminated original. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPLEu1MMYfo]</ref>
  
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