To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
D. A. CARSONI 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.
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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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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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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A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
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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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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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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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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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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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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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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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Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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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.
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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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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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