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3. But simply believing, however sincerely, the things that a Christian at least implicitly believes; , and simply doing, however sincerely, the things that a Christian at least implicitly does are not sufficient to make one a Christian in the strict and proper sense.

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6. Granting this, however, requires one also to say that being a Christian in this broad and improper sense of sincerely believing and doing all that a Christian at least implicitly believes and does is in principle exactly like being a Jew or a Greek (Lei.e., circumcised or uncircumcised), being a slave or a free person, or being a male or a female, in the sense in which Paul understands these distinctions in Galatians 3:26 ff.

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