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
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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.
philosophical people different
Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.
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.
prayer worry
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
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.
looks want judgment
If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.