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Podcast: Defending the Manifesto (8 of 10 )

Greg responds to challenges by William Lane Craig from Craig’s podcast “Reasonable Faith.

Greg discusses salvation, specifically whether Paul understands salvation in primarily legal terms versus covenantal terms.

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