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 "question": "Why did Jesus become flesh?",
 "answer": "He became flesh in order to die. His perfect life by itself could not save us - man's problem was never a lack of a high enough standard, but an inability to meet any standard. He was born to pay the penalty for sin as our substitute, something only God in human flesh could do.",
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 "author": "Gene Cunningham",
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