Quotes About Divine

God saved you not because you have been good, but he sovereignly arranged for you to hear the gospel and regenerated you.

Accordingly, a person who insists that he accepts Christ because of his own free will, and not because of God's sovereign choice and direct action in his soul, cannot at the same time affirm a sovereign God.

Since the only God presented in the Bible is an absolutely sovereign God, a person who affirms human free will cannot, without contradiction, affirm belief in God.

We should never use the excuse, "Only God knows." No, we know as well, because God has revealed his thinking on the subject to us. Non-Christians will go to hell. Homosexuals will suffer everlasting hellfire. Feminism is of the devil. Greed leads to perdition. Liars will be exposed and punished. Oppressors will be destroyed by divine wrath. We know all of these things.

The Bible does not contrast between the native human abilities of the Christians and the non-Christians; rather, it makes a contrast between man's abilities and God's abilities – between human power and divine power, the wisdom of man and the wisdom of God. When these are pitted again each other, there is no contest, "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

Since the objective standard of goodness is the word of God, and evil is meant by whatever deviates from this objective goodness, we know that if we can gain knowledge of the content of divine revelation, we will know what constitutes goodness, and also what is evil.

The Bible contains no errors; it is correct in all that it asserts. Since God does not lie or err, and the Bible is his word, it follows that everything written in it is true.

The will of the unregenerate man cannot assent to the gospel, but a person who has been regenerated by God has also been made willing to believe in Jesus Christ; God has changed his will.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. (Psalm 139:16)

A man's steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand his own way? (Proverbs 20:24)

election is "arbitrary," since God indeed rules "by absolute authority," and election is indeed based on his "individual discretion.

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things….

Exodus 12:29-30). God is nowhere said to be passive in any of this. He did not pass over Egypt to save his people, but he passed over his people to kill the most prized members of Egypt's community, so that even the animals were not spared. He was on a mission to kill, and he did a thorough job of it, so that "there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

The Bible's answer is that it is possible for man to have knowledge about God because God has revealed himself to man.

regeneration must precede faith, and that faith itself is a gift from God.

moral responsibility does not presuppose human freedom, but it presupposes divine sovereignty. We are responsible not because we are free, but we are responsible precisely because we are not free.

God hands them a book, and in effect, says, "Read it. Believe it and live. Disbelieve it and burn in hell." This is very difficult, even impossible, for non-Christians to accept.

The Bible is about God gaining glory from both the salvation and damnation of men and angels. God demonstrates who he is, but by way of story.

Since the Scripture is the very word of God, or God speaking, the necessary conclusion is that it carries the authority of God. Therefore, the authority of Scripture is identical to the authority of God.

The LORD works out everything for his own ends – even the wicked for a day of disaster. (Proverbs 16:4)

The Bible is God's voice, and the authority of Scripture is total.

All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: "What have you done?" (Daniel 4:35)

Why, do you think that you can undermine God's sovereignty and get away with it?

There was no matter at all before creation. God made everything by agency of the Word.