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Patented Pastoral Profundity of the day

It is perfectly possible to produce a square watermelon. All you have to do is grow it in a box. The melon will expand to fill the space available. But this is not natural to watermelons.

The problem with Systematic Theology is that it produces square watermelons. It crams the Bible into a box and emphasizes some things, depresses other things, in order to fulfill the gardener's design for the watermelon -- rather than God's.
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