D. A. Carson Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture. We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

  D. A. Carson

  Pain, Mistake, Play

  D. A. Carson (1996). “Exegetical Fallacies”, p.9, Baker Books

• When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human authors, nevertheless is God breathed and is revealed by God and is utterly reliable and all that it says, with all of its different literary genres, it's trustworthy and without mistake or distortion. It is trustworthy and therefore, because it is from God it has God's authority.

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Mistake, Believe

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

• I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly.

  D. A. Carson

  Mistake, Lying, Home

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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