“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
The Creation of Starlight
“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
Adam First
“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
On the Age of the Earth
“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.
Covered in Crimson
“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
Scandal Is the Point
“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
The Axis of Salvation
“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
And Actually Is Not Supposed To
“No translation means exactly the same thing.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 11
Not Scripture Emeritus
“I believe that the coming of the Christ fulfilled all of the Old Testament Scriptures and did so without retiring their moral and spiritual authority over us.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 8
Not Dead Faith
[Justifying] “faith is the gift of God, lest any man decide to boast, and as the gift of God, it is the only kind of faith that God efficaciously gives—living faith. As living faith it is also an obedient faith, but only in the sense that the sculpted dust that was to be Adam was obedient when God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. God said live, and so he obediently came to life. The only actions this living and obedient faith perform as the instrument of justification are the actions of resting in and receiving the imputed righteousness of Christ.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 7