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Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

17:9; Matthew 12:30–37; Mark 7:20–23; Romans 1:18–3:20; 7:7–25; 8:5–8; 14:23 (Luther said that Paul wrote Romans to “magnify sin”); Galatians 5:16–21; Ephesians 2:1–3; 4:17–19; Hebrews 3:12; James 2:10–11; 1 John 3:4; 5:17. Flesh in Paul usually means a human being driven by sinful desire; the NIV renders these instances of the word as “sinful nature.” The particular faults and vices (i.e., forms and expression of sin) that Scripture detects and denounces are too numerous to list here. Original sin,
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