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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.
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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
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A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
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Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
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God is triune there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
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The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
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We are not fit for a place in God's family the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
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Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
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The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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