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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Montreal
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Donald Arthur Carson
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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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Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
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The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.
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