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  • D. A. Carson Quote - Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
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Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.

D. A. Carson

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    If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - It’s just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group. Download This Image

    It’s just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist.

    If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

    The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.

    For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - It’s not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, “The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books.”

    It’s not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, “The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books.”

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God’s approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern. Download This Image

    The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God’s approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

    True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - They revere Scripture, not because Scripture becomes an idol, but because it discloses God who is especially come after us in salvation and redemption through the person of his son, his cross, his resurrection, the full sweep of the gospel. Download This Image

    They revere Scripture, not because Scripture becomes an idol, but because it discloses God who is especially come after us in salvation and redemption through the person of his son, his cross, his resurrection, the full sweep of the gospel.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - Love the church because Jesus loves it.

    Love the church because Jesus loves it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t want to do what you wanted to do before.

    When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t want to do what you wanted to do before.

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    The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

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    Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it’s the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn’t interested in any of those kinds of things.

    So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it’s the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn’t interested in any of those kinds of things.

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    My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - To worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13).

    To worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13).

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