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but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.” So Peter

says we've not followed cunningly devised

fables. I'm going to be reading two verses from

1 Timothy chapter 1, and I think it was in

“Religious Movies” that I preached on a few

years ago that we talked about fables. All of

these superheroes are fictional characters.

We're not talking about real life. We're talking

about make-believe, and the Bible speaks

against that. First Timothy chapter 1, verses 4

and 5, says, “Neither give heed to fables and

endless genealogies, which minister questions,

rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so

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do. Now the end of the commandment is

charity out of a pure heart, and of a good

conscience, and of faith unfeigned.” We're not

to give heed to fables, that is, fictional stories

and endless genealogies. All they do is bring up

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