God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
D. A. CARSONMy 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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He 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.
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We are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
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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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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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If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.
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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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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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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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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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A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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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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Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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We treat the Bible, not as if it’s a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it’s dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.
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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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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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