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Apr 2007
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What Everybody Knows Before the Gospel C...

DESIRING GOD
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There is knowledge that is communicated to all through nature, and then there is knowledge that is only communicated in the gospel: “Everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins.” 
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