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D. A. Carson

Systematic theology will ask questions like “What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?” Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as “What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John’s Gospel?
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Biblical Important Systematic
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
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Cost Heaven Lying
The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.
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Fountain Interesting Stories
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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God Knowing Knows Want
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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Christ Christian Want
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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Become Book Christian Different Everybody Section
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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Important Toy Years
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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Artists Doctors Economist Profound
There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
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Long Teaching
God’s wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved.
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Emotional Love Wrath
Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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Church Jesus Love
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Damn Dichotomy Hell
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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Christian Scripture Understanding
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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Book Father Son
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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Effectiveness Lonely Teaching
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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Holiness People Suspect Wonder Young

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