The desire to have meaning and messages in a neutral way, independent of religious commitments, corrupts scholarly work on the Bible, because it suppresses the reality of the presence of God as the key to biblical understanding. — 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
