What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
D. A. CARSONHe is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It’s not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.
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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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To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
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If the text is God’s Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
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We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part of her life beat, part of the beating heart of what makes them tick.
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God in his infinite wisdom chose to give us his Word in the 66 canonical books, with all of their variations in theme, emphasis, vocabulary, literary form, and distinctive contributions across time.
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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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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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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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There may be some, but not everybody. But there are many, many, many different Christian, theological, pastoral, specialisms that are covered by one section or another of the book and this will become, therefore, a resource volume for many people.
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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.
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Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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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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