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| Introduction | |
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| What Is the Gospel? | |
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| Biblical Doctrine Foundational | |
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| A Crisis in Theology | |
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| How to Be Sure to Get It Right | |
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| Defective Interpretive Methodologies | |
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| Distorted Perspectives & Attitudes | |
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| Testing Theology | |
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| My Personal Theological Pilgrimage | |
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| The Importance of Details | |
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| Major Exegetical Discoveries | |
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| Unique Features of this Book | |
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| What Is a Mediate Theology of Salvation? | |
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| The polarized views in general | |
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| What are the specific views? | |
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| Evaluation of general views | |
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| An Overview of a Mediate Soteriology | |
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| The Resultant Plan of Salvation | |
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| The Foundations of Salvation Established | |
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| What Is Meant by God's Sovereignty? | |
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| God Before the Foundation of the World | |
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| The Meaning of God's Sovereignty | |
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| A Mediate Theological View | |
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| Excursus: Ray Ortlund Article on Sovereignty | |
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| Whatever Happened to God's Image in Humanity? | |
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| God's Awesome Creation | |
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| Humanity's Created Nobility | |
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| The Impact of Humanity's Fall | |
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| Excursus: Trichotomy | |
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| How Did World Redemption Dawn before Christ? | |
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| Early Anticipation of the Gospel | |
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| The Call of The Patriarchs | |
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| Israel's Redemption out of Egypt | |
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| The Giving of the Mosaic Law | |
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| Humanity's Record of Depravity | |
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| Israel's Davidic Dynasty | |
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| Prophecies of the Coming Messiah | |
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| Is Christ's Passion More than an Atonement? | |
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| Old Testament Atonement | |
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| The Uniqueness of the One Sacrificed | |
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| A Substitutionary, Expiatory Sacrifice | |
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| A Propitiation for Sin | |
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| Two Dimensions of Redemption | |
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| Reconciliation with God | |
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| Objective/Subjective Diagram | |
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| The Terms of Salvation Clarified | |
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| Why Must Proclamation Be on God's Terms? | |
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| The Bedrock, Christ Himself | |
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| Building the Church | |
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| The Gates of Hades | |
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| The Keys of the Kingdom | |
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| Proclamation on God's Terms | |
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| Conclusions and Implications | |
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| Excursus: Hebrew/Aramaic Words for Rock | |
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| What Must I Do to Be Saved? | |
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| John's starting point | |
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| Repentance and faith | |
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| The message of repentance | |
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| The appeal to believe | |
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| Conversion the result | |
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| The centrality of the passion | |
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| The gospel in His final orders | |
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| The gospel in apostolic preaching | |
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| Clarifying other issues | |
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| Excursus: Repentance & Conversion | |
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| How Can the Dead Believe? | |
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| The Determining Scriptures | |
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| Its Historical Actualization | |
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| The Extent of Conviction | |
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| The Nature of Conviction | |
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| Pre-Pentecost Conversion | |
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| How Can Salvation Be Instantaneous? | |
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| Justification defined | |
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| Based on faith alone | |
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| The harmony of grace and faith | |
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| The gracious nature of salvation | |
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| Instantaneous new birth by faith | |
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| Justification & sanctification | |
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| Repentance, faith, & conversion | |
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| The compromises of faith alone | |
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| Are We Saved by Discipleship? | |
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| Christ's Discipleship Teachings | |
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| Christ's Salvation Witness | |
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| The Issues of Discipleship Salvation | |
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| Comparison of Discipleship Discourses | |
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| Is Baptism Essential for Salvation? | |
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| The Inductive Biblical Development | |
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| The Doctrinal Crystallization | |
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| Is Christ the Only Way of Salvation? | |
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| The Uniqueness of Christ and His Gospel | |
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| Are the Unevangelized Really Lost? | |
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| A Critique of Inclusivism | |
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| Eternal Salvation Assured | |
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| Can We Really Have Full Assurance? | |
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| Are all real Christians assured? | |
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| What misunderstandings hinder assurance? | |
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| What is the basis of assurance? | |
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| Life factors undermining assurance | |
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| Doctrinal errors undermining assurance | |
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| Why so many struggle with assurance? | |
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| Why the Struggle with Eternal Security? | |
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| Clarification of the Doctrine | |
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| The Positive Biblical Basis | |
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| Is the Bible Ambiguous about Eternal Security? | |
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| Two Foundational Parables | |
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| The Real Thrust of Hebrews | |
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| Wamings | |
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| Can Security Problems Be Resolved? | |
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| Issues Relating to True Believers | |
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| Issues Relating to Apostates & Counterfeits | |
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| Individualizing Corporate Entities | |
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| Passages Pulled out of Context | |
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| Why Not Believe in Security? | |
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| False Presuppositions of Denial | |
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| Can Sin Negate Salvation? | |
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| Can Failure of Faith Negate Salvation? | |
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| Why Believe It? | |
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| What Other Errors Has Arminianism Spawned? | |
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| Denial of Substitution in the Cross | |
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| Wesleyan Entire Sanctification | |
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| The Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements | |
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| The Prosperity Gospel Heresy | |
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| Open Theism | |
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| Openness to Liberalism | |
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| Calvinism Inductively Examined | |
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| Does the New Birth Really Precede Faith? | |
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| Faith Prior to the New Birth | |
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| What Is the Source of Faith? | |
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| Does Depravity Really Imply Total Inability? | |
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| The Fall and Human Depravity | |
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| Prooftexts for Total Inability | |
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| Other Problems with Inability | |
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| Excursus: Critique of R. C. Sproul, Willing to Believe | |
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| Did Christ Really Die for Every Sinner? | |
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| What about Limited Atonement? | |
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| Key Scriptures Exegeted | |
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| Serious Implications of a Limited View | |
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| Excursus: Calvin Quotes on General Redemption | |
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| Is Foreknowledge Really Selective? | |
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| Outstanding Questions | |
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| The Meaning of Foreknowledge | |
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| Complete New Testament Usage | |
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| Excursus: Word Studies of yada' & ginoskein | |
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| Are We Chosen to Salvation or Appointed to Service? | |
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| The Commissioning of the Patriarchs | |
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| A Word Study of eklegomai and Cognates | |
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| Other Considerations | |
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| Is Predestination Really in the Bible? | |
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| A Word Study of proorizein and Cognates | |
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| Theologically Significant Usage | |
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| God's Open Secret | |
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| The Corporate Nature of God's Plan | |
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| Has God Really Determined Each Person's Destiny? | |
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| God's Sovereignty in Salvation | |
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| Problems with All-Inclusive Decrees | |
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| Excursus: Critique of John Piper's The Justification of God | |
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| Is God's Calling Really Irresistible? | |
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| A Word Study of Calling | |
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| Presuppositions of Irresistible Grace | |
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| Prooftexts Examined | |
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| Passages Refuting Irresistibility | |
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| Problems of Coherence | |
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| A Middle Way Confirmed | |
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| Were There Really Middle Ways in History? | |
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| Augustine, the First Predestinarian | |
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| The Medieval Scene | |
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| The Reformers and their Successors | |
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| The Reformation Spread and Modified | |
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| Modern Mediate Theologians | |
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| Excursus: Review of Peter Thuesen, Predestination | |
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| Which Theology Really Supports Global Witness? | |
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| Evangelism and Missions Axiomatic | |
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| Obstacles to Global Witness | |
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| Theological Basis of Modern Missions | |
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| Theological Lineage Chart of Personalities | |
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| Determinism Inconsistent with Evangelism | |
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| Is a Middle Way Really Cogent? | |
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| Philosophy's Historical Hegemony | |
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| Attempts at Logical Resolution | |
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| Determinism as a Massive Extrapolation | |
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| Does It Really Matter? | |
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| The Impact on the Christian Life | |
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| The Impact on God's Truth | |
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| The Impact on Preaching | |
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| The Impact on Apologetics | |
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| Resorting to Philosophical Sophistries | |
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| Missing the Heart of God's Great Plan | |
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| How Does This Relate to Dispensational Premillennialism? | |
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| Does the Character of Theologians Matter? | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Indices | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Table of Charts and Diagrams | |
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| Two Models of Divine Sovereignty | |
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| Balancing the Attributes of God | |
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| The Objective vs. Subjective Dimensions of Salvation | |
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| The Sequence of Salvation | |
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| Comparison of Christ's Discipleship Discourses | |
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| The Diverse Warnings to Hebrews | |
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| The Theological Lineage Connecting Key Missions Personalities | |