amount of time the Bible spends talking about them. It is not that there is a right way or a wrong way to study Bible doctrine. Rather, there are different ways, each of which has its strengths and weaknesses. Key words need to be studied no matter what other ways you study doctrine. However, as a rule, in brief overviews such as this you can’t get specific enough to deal with many key words. So we isolate some of the most important key words that are very important regardless of whether you are