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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: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Donald Arthur Carson
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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 more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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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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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
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There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
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The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
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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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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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We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.
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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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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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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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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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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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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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