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Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.

D. A. Carson

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
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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Accept Group Particular Truthful
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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God Knowing Knows Want
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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Holy Joy Obedience
Some people say What’s the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest.
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Doe People Philosophical
The Christian’s whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
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Christian Jesus Winning
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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Beaten Christian Heart Son
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
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Boys Doors Running
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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Effective Greatest Pain Teaching
How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.
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Dicatted Example God Memorize Person
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
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
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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Our Prayer Self World
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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Courage God Little Love Sympathy
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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Footnoted Justification Sanctification Similarly
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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Believe Evidence Moral Want

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