I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover.
D. A. CARSONAny term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that’s imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
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Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
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When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it’s mediated through many different human authors.
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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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As long as young people are asking, ‘Can I get away with this?’ or ‘Can I get away with that?’ I wonder if they’re regenerate. If they’re asking, instead, ‘How can I grow in holiness?’ then I suspect they’ve begun to understand.
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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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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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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.
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A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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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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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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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
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