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Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
D. A. Carson
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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Montreal
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Donald Arthur Carson
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Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, 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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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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In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
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Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
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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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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
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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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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
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Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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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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Study Bible is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.
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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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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.
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