Tag: Chrestomathy

“Accepting the authority of natural law in the sense I am describing does not require a nature/grace dualism. That dualism is found in some of the commentaries, but not in the stars. What is nature but one vast repository of grace?“

Concise and to the Point, p. 29

“A corpse is not partly resurrected, and dead faith is not most of the way there.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 26

“If God had wanted everyone to have a Damascus road experience, He would have given everyone sandals and a horse.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 25

“If God placed it all here at one fell swoop, it does not give me heartburn to thank Him for starlight from a particular star that has no more been to that star than I have. God created the star, the earth, and the entire rope of starlight in between. That should present no more of a problem than God creating both sides of a rock at the same time.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 22

“There is also a deep theological problem with the view that death antedated mankind. The Bible teaches that Adam produced death. The opposing view has to say that in some manner death produced Adam.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 20

“Everyone in the debate would willing to affirm a Flannelgraph version of the Flood, giraffe and all, if that is what the Bible taught, and everyone in the debate would be willing to affirm a planet creaky with age if that is what the Bible taught.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 18.

“In Jesus Christ, we received the fullness of the wrath of God, and in Jesus Christ we receive the fullness of God’s pleasure in His well-beloved Son. This exchange, this glorious transaction, occurred on the Mercy Seat in the Great Heaven between the cherubim, and it is a mercy entirely covered in blood. Trying to clean the blood off does us no favors at all.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 15

“God made it [penal substitution] scandalous on purpose in order to keep our number of refined theologians to a minimum.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 14

“We are saved from the wrath of God by the love of God as these two attributes of God collided in the agony of Jesus Christ.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 13

“No translation means exactly the same thing.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 11