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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Missionary
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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Absolutism
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A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.
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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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All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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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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There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
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Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.
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To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship it is gospel-inspired worship it is Christ-centered worship it is cross-focused worship.
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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.
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Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
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The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.
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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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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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Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.
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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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