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It is clear now that there is no simple, one-two-three answer to the parents of the children killed in the bus accident, the wife of the corporal, the rioting Indian families, or the victim of the concentration camp. But it should also be clear that there are resources within Biblical faith for meeting these situations, facing up to them, living with them, and transforming them by faith, rather than being transformed by them into despair. The job of the Christian is not to have a "ready answer" for every situation, but to have a total approach to life, gained from encounter with God, that enables him to live with, and conquer, every situation. (Who Am I?) When the hall of philosophy in a large university was being built, there was a controversy over the inscription to be carved above the main entrance. One group wanted the statement of Protagoras, "Man is the measure of all things." Another group held out for the words of the Eighth Psalm, addressed to God, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" There is all the difference in the world between those two conceptions of man. In the first, man is the center of everything. In the second, God is the center of everything. Who is right? What is man? God conquers death God gives us the power to conquer The Only Real "Answer" A Question You Can't Avoid Some Current Answers -- a Dime a Dozen The First Part of the Biblical Answer What Is the "Image of God"? Some Consequences The Second Part of the Biblical Answer What Sin Is Supplying Some Documentation What Sin Is Not Getting Straightened Out How Can I Be Changed? The Third Part of the Biblical Answer The First Step After the First Step The Heart of the Matter Not Once and for All Some Hints for Growing -- Tried and Tested A Final Warning Why Isn't "Individual Religion" Enough? The Case Against the Church -a Bagful of Objections When Did the Church Get Started? Just What Is a "Covenant"? The "New Covenant" Becomes a Possibility Those Words of Jesus to Peter Those "Upsetters of the World" A Rebuttal of the Case Against the Church Why the Church? Last Judgment? Second Coming? What Do They Mean? The Inescapability of Eschatology The Point of Biblical Eschatology: History Is Going Somewhere The Dangers of Literalism Exploring New Testament Eschatology The Kingdom of God A Few Bits of Help The Gift of God Schatology and "What I Do Today" What Happens When I Die? Sheol -- Where God Is Not Present The Community of the Resurrection Paul's Attempt to Describe the Christian Fact A "Spiritual Body" The Facts of the Case I Try to Live a Good Life. Why Isn't That Enough? The "Micah" Variation The "Worship and Action" Variation The "Therefore" Variation The Biblical faith that God is the Creator