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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
D. A. Carson
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D. A. Carson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Donald Arthur Carson
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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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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 Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
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How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?
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There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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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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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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...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
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We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
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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 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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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.
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A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.
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The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
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The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
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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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