Occupation: Professor Birth: 1948
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 G….
The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage of redemptive history, ….
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because….
God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals..
God's faithfulness means that God will always do what He said and fulfill what He has promised..
God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God..
If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all..
When Jesus invites sinners, 'Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' he immediately adds,'take my yoke upon you, an….
Our justification from sins takes place at the point of saving faith, not at the point of water baptism, which usually occurs later. But if a person ….
It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way….
God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy..
The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact..
I do not believe that God intended the study of theology to be dry and boring. Theology is the study of God and all his works! Theology is meant to b….
If God is not unchanging, then the whole basis of our faith begins to fall apart, and our understanding of the universe begins to unravel. This is be….
The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobe….
God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act..
Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life..
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the creation of Adam an….
The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain e….
God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself..
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature.