“In this primal sense, then, evil is evil because it is rebellion against God. Evil is the failure to do what God demands or the performance of what God forbids. Not to love God with heart and soul and mind… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne, a little courage… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward… — D. A. Carson Copy Share
Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam,… — D. A. Carson Copy Share
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé, while others say that the present configuration of the doctrine of inerrancy is a late addition. And to both we want to say, No we're talking about the enduring authority of Scripture, grounded first and foremost in its… — D. A. Carson Copy Share
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share
