in understandable language and help the listeners to solve their problems. To maintain biblical authority in the process of systematic theology, it is imperative that the person doing the theology avoid deduction. By this we mean that theologians should not begin with a general theological statement and impose it on the biblical text to make the Bible mean what they want it to mean at the expense of the text’s real intention. Rather, careful exegetical study of the biblical text should lead (inductively)