J. I. Packer Quotes About Scripture

Quotes about: Scripture

• When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

  J. I. Packer

  Limits, Scripture, Arguing

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

• Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Scripture, Matter

• The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study.

  J. I. Packer

  Teaching, Biblical, Issues

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.96, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.

  J. I. Packer

  Self, Choices, Forever

  J. I. Packer (1995). “Knowing and Doing the Will of God”

• We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

  J. I. Packer

  Bible, Biblical, Mind

• Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

  J. I. Packer

  Spiritual, Reading, Way

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Curiosity, Answers, Scripture

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.109, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

  J. I. Packer

  Lying, Teaching, Mean

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Foundation, Purpose

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.92, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Son, Scripture

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Eye, Would Be, Narrative

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

  J. I. Packer

  Book, Character, Scripture

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