D. A. Carson
D. A. Carson
Donald Arthur Carsonis a Canadian-born, Reformed Evangelical theologian and professor of the New Testament...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth21 December 1946
CountryCanada
understanding sin weak
A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
suffering way god-knows
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
jesus important truthful
The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.
trying worship excellent
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
crush tolerance culture
One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.
humility accepting harder
If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
treasure sin horror
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
long suffering matter
The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
religious heart reality
Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from a secularist vision that wants Christianity to scuttle into the corner of the hearth by the coal shovel, conveniently out of the way of anything but private religious concerns
love-is emotional wrath
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 the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God
may absolutism heroic
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
teaching long ongoing
There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
prayer self our-world
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
christian play two
Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture. Further, many of our members have long used one or two other Study Bibles, and it is important that Christians not be tied too tightly to only one option, however good it may be.