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But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.
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Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification... To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.
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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.
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The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
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The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.
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God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.
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Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.
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A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.
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The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
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The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.
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What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
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We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.
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Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.
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In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
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It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.
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Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.
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Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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J. I. Packer
Born:
July 22, 1926
Died:
July 17, 2020
(aged 93)
Bio:
James Innell Packer was a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions. He served as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Known for:
Knowing God (1973)
A quest for godliness (1990)
Fundamentalism and the Word of God (1958)
Affirming the Apostles' Creed (2008)
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