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Gilbert Gutknecht: I tell some of my friends it is not right because it is in the Bible, it is in the Bible because it is right and it…

On the recordSeptember 10, 1997
I tell some of my friends it is not right because it is in the Bible, it is in the Bible because it is right and it works. The time-tested principles and values that we talk about, work, thrift, personal responsibility, respect for your elders, those are not right just because they are in the Bible; they happen to be in the Bible because they are right and they work.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the relevance of biblical principles in contemporary values.

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