God promises the Holy Spirit to us who believe in Christ, and the Spirit guides us in understanding. But within this life our understanding is limited, and contaminated by sin. Just because a person feels Spirit-led does not mean that… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
The desire to have meaning and messages in a neutral way, independent of religious commitments, corrupts scholarly work on the Bible, because it suppresses… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
The Bible is all God's speech, as well as all mediated through human writers who wrote the individual books. It's a mistake to try to separate passages into a divine piece and a human piece. Rather, we should treat the Bible for what it is: divine and human all the way through. Of course God can quote human sinful speech,… — Vern Poythress Copy Share
Communion with God as we hear his voice is rich. We receive his meanings; we submit to his authority; we grow by his power… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
Sometimes differences arise partly from incomplete information. We are finite. And we should admit that there are cases of uncertainty. But often the differences… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
God promises the Holy Spirit to us who believe in Christ, and the Spirit guides us in understanding. But within this life our understanding… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
Christ is Lord of all. This truth implies that he is lord of language, lord of grammar, lord of history, and lord or interpretive… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
Communion with God does not imply turning off your mind but turning it on - to be renewed in our minds. We're to love… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
