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To: wideawake

Oh so you’ve been reading what cranks have to say on the internet without researching the context? That quote was addressing the existence of God, not the Will of God which can only be known by spiritual rebirth through Jesus Christ.

The twisting of that quote was thoroughly debunked.

In 1966, Billy Graham said “I know of no one who has done more for the Kingdom of God “ than Norman Vincent Peale or anyone that had personally helped him with his words of encouragement.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan awarded Norman Vincent Peale the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom.


79 posted on 12/12/2015 1:10:55 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hostage
Nothing has been "debunked."

The quote does not emanate from "the internet."

Norman Vincent Peale said, plainly and unequivocally to a national television audience, that it was not necessary to be born again.

That was 18 years after Billy Graham - a man who supported the Clintons, and who endorsed the Communist-run state churches of Red China - made that fawning statement.

President Reagan's awarding him the MOF is evidence of exactly nothing: Reagan gave an MOF to Sidney Hook as well, who was not a believer of any kind.

88 posted on 12/12/2015 2:16:53 PM PST by wideawake
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