will be saved.” That is a perfectly true summary of a major biblical teaching. However, in this book we devote several pages to elaborating more precisely what it means to “believe in Jesus Christ,”2 and nine chapters (chs. 20–28) will be devoted to explaining what it means to “be saved” in all of the many implications of that term. Third, a formal study of systematic theology will make it possible to formulate summaries of biblical teachings with much more accuracy than Christians would normally
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