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.
D. A. CARSONWhen 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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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
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Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that’s imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.
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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
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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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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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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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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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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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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 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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What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort.
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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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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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