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Francis Schaeffer on T.D. Jakes…err…I mean Karl Barth

In recent years it has often been said that Karl Barth changed his views toward the end of his life. If this was so, then all could have been easily cared for by his writing one more book amongst his many books and, while he was yet living, making it known that his views of Scripture, his lack of a space-time Fall, and his implicit universalism had been publicly repudiated. In the light of his crucial influence as the originator of the new theology and his wide publication, it would seem difficult to think that anything less would have met his responsibility before God and men. If he had done this, many of us would have truly rejoiced. Note p. 78 for a consideration of the deficient concept of justification and the place of universalism in the new theology.1

  1. Francis A. Schaeffer, The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer : A Christian Worldview. (Westchester, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1996). ↩

“To withhold discipline is neither a compliment nor a kindness; and the opportunity passes.”

Derek Kidner in his TOTC commentary on Proverbs. (Via Paul Wegner’s article “Discipline in the Book of Proverbs” in JETS 48/4.

“See the book as profoundly God-centered, reading the whole in light of the book’s beginning (where God interacts with Satan) and the end (where God interacts with Job). At the end of the day, Job never gets answers, he just gets God, and, as it turns out, God is all he needed from the beginning. As you read Job, allow the book to lead you to God.”

Guidelines for Reading/Listening to the Book of Job — George H. Guthrie

“Almost every doctrinal error starts with the desire to affirm or to protect some important doctrine. But without careful thinking and delicate nuances, working hard to avoid one mistake will simply lead us to another. Maybe even worse.”

Nuance Is Necessary – Kevin DeYoung

“And he who created all things in the beginning with this goal in mind will consummate his work of re-creation on the final day when he brings all things together in unity in his Son, the Lord Jesus (1:10).”

Peter Thomas O’Brien, The Letter to the Ephesians, The Pillar New Testament commentary, 244 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999).