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If we ultimately appeal to human reason, or to logic, or to historical accuracy, or to scientific truth, as the authority by which Scripture is shown to be God's words, then we have assumed the thing to which we appealed to be a higher authority than God's words and one that is more true or more reliable. Systematic Theology (78)
Very unjustly at the mention of miracles one thinks almost exclusively of those in the material domain, and almost without a thought passes by the spiritual miracles. This of course is absurd.Principles of Sacred Theology, 420
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
The fact that man is in the image of God means that man is like God and represents GodSystematic Theology, Ch 21
I have been concerned that such accounts should be published because I saw that signs of divine power like those of older days were frequently occuring in modern times too
Everywhere the Apostolic Church was marked out as itself a gift from God, by showing forth the possession of the Spirit in appropriate works of the Spirit-miracles of healing and miracles of power, miracles of knowledge whether in the form of prophecy or of the discerning of spirits, miracles of speech, whether the gift of tongues or of their interpretation. The Apostolic Church was characteristically a miracle-working churchCounterfeit Miracles, p.5
I use the word Miracle to mean an interference with Nature by supernatural power. Unless there exists, in addition to Nature, something else which we may call the supernatural, there can be no miracles.
God's holiness means that he is separated from sin and devoted to seeking his own honor."Systematic Theology, 202
The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.systematics theology 108
When Paul lists the qualifications for elders, it is significant that he combines requirements concerning character traits and heart attitudes with requirements that cannot be fulfilled in a short time but will only become evident over a period of several years of faithful Christian living.Systematic Theology, 916
there is quite a consistent pattern of plural elders as the main governing group in New Testament churchesSystematic Theology, 912
The entrance of sin into the world makes the supernatural intervention of God in the course of events necessary for the destruction of sin and for the renewal of creation.Systematic Theology, 177
No detail was too insignificant to be used for the instruction of New Testament Christians. There is no indication that they thought of a certain category of scriptural statements that were unreliable and untrustowrthySystematic Theology, 94
The inerrancy of Scripture means that Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.Systematic Theology, 91
Repentance is a heartfelt sorrow for sin, a renouncing of it, and a sincere commitment to forsake it and walk in obedience to Christ.Systematic Theology
To come in the name of someone means that another person has authorized us to come on his authority, not on our own.Systematic Theology (379)
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