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The first time I heard the term soteriology, I thought it sounded like a boring doctorate thesis or a medical problem.
I was watching a video lecture by the late theologian Dr. R.C. Sproul speaking to a group of seminary students who already knew big words that end in -ology. But since I wasn’t one of them, I paused the video and looked the word up.
That’s when I discovered that my passion for studying the Bible’s teaching on salvation has a name—soteriology.