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It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of

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Dr. Michael Brown. Well, it is a joy to be with you today on the Line of fire broadcast. You've got questions. We've got answers.

Michael Brown, delighted to be with you. The number to call 866-6-3-4-truth. 866-348-7-884. Any question of any kind that I can help you with, any comment that you want to raise and discuss with me.

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866-348-7-884. Before we answer your emails or go to your calls, I want to explain something to you

in terms of how the world of scholarship intersects with, say, the Bible translation you're reading,

or how it intersects with your pastor preaching a sermon from the pulpit.

As I lived in the world of scholarship for years, as I was doing my PhD work, I was still

preaching and teaching on a practical level and things like that, but I was immersed in

detailed, difficult scholarly work, translating ancient

tablets and inscriptions, trying to wrestle through different languages and things like that.

And it's very selective. It's very narrow. I've written some things like that. I'll attend

scholarly conferences and deliver papers, and you have other

scholars sitting there. And if you walk into something that is, say, outside of your field,

you'll sit there, you won't understand the word of it. One of the grads from our ministry school,

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