Tag: Selected Quotes

“I am not bound to accept a prophetic utterance from a charismatic friend the same way I am bound to believe the book of Romans.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 45

“There is no way to maintain that the revelatory gifts are ongoing without jeopardizing the integrity of the canon of Scripture. If the word given is a Word from God, and if we believe that it is, then we must treat it as though it is.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 44

“We are often tempted to say that some things are supernatural simply because we do not know how far nature actually goes.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 43

“What holy word does God speak into a sinful religious world? He says not to bow down before an image in religious devotion.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 40

“The inconsistent Christian writes articles for academic journals explaining how it turns out that the Scriptures, rightly understood, were all along saying just what the latest breeze from off the Zeitgeist Bay would seem to indicate they ought to have been saying.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 35

“When the pomos taught us that all truth claims were disguised power grabs, they were telling us more about their purposes than they were actually intending to.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 34

“Truth is objective, ultimate, absolute, personal, alive, and triune.”

Concise and to the Point, p. 33

“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