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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.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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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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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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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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Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.
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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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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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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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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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The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
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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 more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ
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The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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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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