The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced. — 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
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith? — 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
The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture. Further, many… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
It's better to emphasize biblical theology, partly because there are fine Study Bibles already available that lean into systematic theology, and partly… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like,… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.]… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by… — 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,… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
In terms of applicability to today's world, many people are trying to domesticate Scripture so as to get the PC answer, the… — 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… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
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… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
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… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
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