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At its most basic level, the word theology is “God talk,” the Greek theos originally meaning “God” and logos meaning “word, statement, speech, discourse.” God is then the ultimate subject and source of theology. Included in theology is the study of the nature of God himself, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. But theology also includes the scope of the Bible itself: the study of the Word of God subject...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN JUSTIFICATION Earlier we saw that personal sin takes two basic forms; it burdens the sinner with a “double trouble.” On the one hand sin makes us guilty. Guilt is a wrong relationship with the law of God, involving a liability to punishment. On the other hand, sin gives us a sinful or depraved nature. It infects the soul (and the body) with spiritual weakness and corruption. Because the sinner’s problem is twofold, grace as the content of salvation must also be twofold—a “double
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