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  • D. A. Carson Quote - We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
  • D. A. Carson Quote - 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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We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

D. A. Carson

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - If the text is God’s Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

    If the text is God’s Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

    D. A. CARSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - 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.

    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.

    D. A. CARSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax – in the cross.

    Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax – in the cross.

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    Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - 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? Download This Image

    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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    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram D. A. Carson Quote - A little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

    A little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

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    There’s a change in the heart; there’s a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with.

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    Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, “This isn’t fair.”

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    God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

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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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    God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.

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    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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    What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

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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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