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</html><description>Our day needs its best theologians, historians, biblical scholars, missiologists and pastors to sit down at table to discuss world religions. The issues pressing for answers are enormous in significance, and that is why I&#x2019;d like to open a series on why God has allowed different religions? And, of course, the very question assumes the&hellip;</description><thumbnail_url>http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1</thumbnail_url></oembed>
