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The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
D. A. Carson
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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Donald Arthur Carson
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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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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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The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
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Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.
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You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
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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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There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
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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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All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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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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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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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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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 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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Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.
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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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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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