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Chapter 1, From the Cradle to Christ

• Scott Hahn, one of the two main characters of the book, begins narrating.

• He starts with telling us his life story as a baptized liberal Presbyterian.

• As teenagers, he and his friend Dave are not very good kids.

• His first year of high school he meets a guy named Jack who brings him into Young Life.

• Scott decides to convert; he loses many of his friends as a result of his commitment.
• He begins to attend seminary classes in his senior year.

• Scott is inspired by the leaders of the Reformation, Martin Luther and John Calvin and develops strongly anti-Catholic views.

• It becomes his mission to correct and "liberate" Catholics raised in a "works-righteousness" faith.

• The central doctrine of Protestants--sola fide--or the doctrine that we are saved by faith alone apart from our moral works, is anathema to the Catholic Church but...

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