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Travelers about to visit a foreign country often study a guidebook with information about that country. Especially helpful are clear, easy-to-use maps, background information on the local area, and articles about important sites to visit. Similarly, the Bible confronts many readers today with a kind of “foreign country in writing” whose customs and culture aren’t always clear. The Eerdmans...

Basically, Christian doctrine is simply the teachings of the Christian faith. For some Christians who hold a high view of church authority, Christian doctrine may be defined as the official, definitive teachings of the church. In any case, although based upon and tested by Scripture, Christian doctrine is more than repetition or reorganization of the words of Scripture. We cannot simply “collate the data” from the Bible to make the doctrines of the faith. Christian communities engage in
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