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 "question": "How do we know Jesus is God?",
 "answer": "John could not be more emphatic: 'the Word was God.' He existed eternally, face-to-face with the Father, yet is Himself God; He is the Creator of all things, apart from whom nothing came into being; and He has 'explained' the invisible God to us. His deity is written all over the record.",
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  "How do we know from the Bible that Jesus is actually God?",
  "What evidence in the book of John reveals that Jesus is fully God?"
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 "author": "Gene Cunningham",
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