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This is a guide to historic Christian beliefs. As Packer says, "This book sets out in short compass what seems to me to be the permanent essentials of Christianity, viewed as both a belief system and a way of life. … As I often tell my students, theology is for doxology and devotion—that is, the praise of God and the practice of godliness. It should therefore be presented in a way that brings the...

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”—which means, “God with us.” MATTHEW 1:22–23 Matthew 1:18–25 and Luke 1:26–56; 2:4–7, two harmonious and complementary but obviously independent stories, unite in witnessing to Jesus’ birth as the consequence of a miraculous conception. Mary became pregnant by the Holy Spirit’s creative