God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
D. A. CARSONTrue 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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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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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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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 prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.
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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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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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It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
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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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A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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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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