paying the penalty for my sin.”19 To omit the death and resurrection of Christ from the gospel is to have improperly “bifurcated the person and work of Christ.”20 In identifying the content of saving faith, it is best to speak of faith in the person of Jesus Christ—the Jesus of the Bible—and then expand on this idea by addressing those identifying facts about Him that must be included in the kernel of salvific truth. For instance, one must understand that Jesus is the Son of God who died and rose
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