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The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen they do not play fair.
D. A. Carson
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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.
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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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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
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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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Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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