Removing anything from the Word of God is liberalism. Adding to the Word of God is legalism.
The wisdom of God is there for the benefit of humanity.
God honors our choices – God or self. Humanity prefers self on the throne with its self-satisfaction and self-desires and perverted insistence.
There is ruin (because of us) and redemption (because of Him).
“Hell” is life without achievement, struggle without accomplishment, cold without heat, fire without quenching, darkness without light, helpless, lonely, and depressed without God.
In Philippians, Paul awaits trial in prison. He will either be released or his head will be taken. Paul was calm before either possibility. He said in essence: Living is Christ, dying I will gain more of Christ forever. Either way was profitable for him.
We live with death before us; we die with life before us.
Christ shall reign forever. He is the light of eternity. We shall reign with Christ to “the ages of the ages” (Revelation 22:1-5).
The many artists’ renditions of Jesus portray Him as a glamorized person. This says more about us than about Jesus.
There are two minor descriptions of the Lord in the Bible. One speaks of Him as handsome, but the other, Isaiah 53:1-3, tells what is most likely how He would have appeared in His humanity.
53 Who hath believed our report?
and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground:
he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him,
there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
There is no denying or exceeding absolute truth.
True Christian integrity does not compromise convictions.
The church (the body of Christ) is meant to be the conscience of society.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.