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 "question": "How would you explain to an unbelieving friend how to be saved? What Scriptures would you use?",
 "answer": "Salvation is the simplest and the hardest thing at once: simply believe. Like Zaccheus, we do not clean ourselves up first — we let ourselves be found and receive by faith the life only Christ can give. Faith is the only thing God has ever required; our part is to trust what He has done, not to earn it. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost — receive Him, and salvation comes to your house today.",
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 "author": "Gene Cunningham",
 "book": "The Basics",
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