And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Chris…

Soren Kierkegaard
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. ✨ Soren Kierkegaard (2004). The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus, p.111, Penguin UK
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. ✨ Soren Kierkegaard (2004). The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus, p.111, Penguin UK

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