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
D. A. Carson quotes about
scripture new-testament
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
scripture authority vary
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.
reverence
What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
worship wonder sometimes
Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
liars hate wrath
The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
masters aim
The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
creator-god honor moral
Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.
humble doe ought
That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
proof pretext
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
encouragement teaching effort
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
waiting disaster persons
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
loving-god knowing-god knows
To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
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.
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.