John Mark Byers

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““Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching.” Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)

““Who can forgive sins but God alone?””
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 2:7.

Asked after Jesus had forgiven the paralytic’s sins.