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Navigating Tough Texts: A Guide to Problem Passages in the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

A guide for reading and understanding difficult New Testament verses. While the core message of the New Testament is clear, there are often puzzling, alarming, or confusing things we encounter when we get into the details of the text. Murray J. Harris, veteran scholar and translator, is an ideal guide through these complicated passages. In Navigating Tough Texts, he clearly and concisely...

needs to be an acknowledgment of wrongdoing (= confession), and a turning away from their wrongful attitude and action (= repentance) (Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38; 3:19; 1 John 1:9). In the Bible, forgiveness is never portrayed as automatic. Christ died for all (2 Cor 5:15), but not everyone is forgiven. Confession and repentance are required. It is clear that when God forgives our sins, he does not “forget” them, for he is omniscient and cannot forget anything. On the contrary, all things—past, present,
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