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In this week, I have read the Bible. I don’t know why Nebuchadnezzar treated the captive children so kingly. What’s more, I can’t understand why the four captive children refused the meat and wine from king’s table. What makes me feel ridiculous is that the four children who just ate vegetables and water became fatter and fairer than all the others who ate portions from the king’s table. Biologically, we must eat meat to give us enough energy to make us grow up healthily. So I do not believe that people who never eat meat can grow up fatter and stronger than those people who eat meat. It is also unbelievable that the four children, who were thrown into a fiery furnace, can survive because of their God. Until now, I doubt the existence

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