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To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. The Reason for God (8)
we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. "Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads", Christianity Today (Sep 3 1982)
Without absolutes revealed from God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas.
Bad theology kills. So get rid of the adjective, not the noun. Ditch the bad. Keep the theology. Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (26)
Brothers, for the sake of the truth, and for the good of your people, and for the glory of God in the world, don't confuse timid uncertainty with truthful humility. Brothers, We are Not Professionals (166)
We cannot know like God knows (archetypal), but we can know as God wants and allows and helps us to know (ectypal). Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (32)
Truth must be spoken, though the greatest on earth be offended.Drink Deeply: Meditations from the Fountain of Life
We do not owe the truth to those who want to use it for evil.
There is nothing more unloving than to be silent in the face of lies that will ruin another person.Dug Down Deep (221)
We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.
At the threshold of his public ministry, he silenced the Baptist's objections to baptizing him with the words "thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness"-or, as the NEB puts it, "we do well to conform in this way with all that God requires" (Matt. 3:15). Unlike those others who were baptized by John in the Jordan, confessing their sins, it was with no consciousness of sin that he accepted baptism, but with the resolution to place himself unreservedly at God's disposal posal for the accomplishment of his saving purpose-and if, in doing so, he associated himself publicly with sinners, that was something which he was going to do throughout his ministry, until he was "numbered with the transgressors" on the cross.
The Epistle to the Hebrews
this is the book which establishes the finality of the gospel by asserting the supremacy of Christ-his supremacy as God's perfect word to man and man's perfect representative with God. More than any other New Testament book it deals with the ministry which our Lord is accomplishing on his people's behalf now.
The Epistle to the Hebrews
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
That is in reality what happens to relativists: in claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is rooted in deep desire not to be subordinate to the claims of truth. Think (113)
Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt-the Divine Reason.... We are on the road to productin g a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. Orthodoxy (31-32)
Relativism no longer means: your claim to truth is no more valid than mine; but now means: you may not claim to speak the truth. Brothers, We are Not Professionals (159)
God in his love gives his truth to us for our well-being. God's truth serves not only the interests of his own glory but also his people's good. Truth is for our everlasting joy in God. Furthermore, truth worked deep down into the heart and soul and bones of a preacher and then worked out in his relationships makes him tender and humble in his dealing with the sheep and in proclaiming and explaining the Word. Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (20)
the objection that language is not capable of conveying absolute truth is not an angst derived from the pages of Scripture; it comes from an alien philosophical mind-set manifested in both medieval nominalism and post-Kantian philosophy. Both the apostle Paul and the apostle John were ready to expel people from the church over language! Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (31)
Sometimes, indeed we represent it as a state of virtue (as is man's way with his weaknesses), censuring our predecessors for being too definite and dogmatic, and complimenting ourselves on being open-minded, flexible, and free from obscurantism. We must, however, be careful here. It has been well said that if you open your mind wide enough a great deal of rubbish will be tipped into it. God Has Spoken (34)
All biblical doctrines are presented as matter for worship and the encouragement and strengthening of faith. And if you and I don't present them in a way that's calculated to produce that same effect we're mishandling scripture. Systematic Theology A Lecture
If you say all truth-claims are power plays, then so is your statement. If you say (like Freud) that all truth-claims about religion and God are just psychological projections to deal with your guilt and insecurity, then so is your statement. To see through everything is not to see. The Reason for God (38)
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