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The essays in The Beauty and Glory of the Reformation call you to be grateful to God and to grow in appreciation for the rich biblical, doctrinal, experiential, and practical heritage passed on by the great sixteenth-century Reformation. Through these studies, you will be challenged to treasure basic Reformation principles such as Scripture alone, Christ alone, and the glory of God alone, as well...

Word of God, and therefore stands in close analogy to God’s speech in creation. Luther draws this out dramatically in his description of the fall. When he describes the fall in his Lectures on Genesis he describes it as a struggle over language. Whose speech will Adam and Eve believe? Will it be the speech of God or the speech of the serpent? He says, “Moses expresses himself very carefully and says: ‘the serpent said.’ That is, with a word the serpent attacks the Word. The Word which the Lord spoke
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