Quotes About Doctrine

The Bible teaches that we are justified by faith, and not that we are regenerated by faith.

Why, do you think that you can undermine God's sovereignty and get away with it? He knows! Do you think that you can play down the doctrines of the blood atonement and an exclusive salvation, and not be held accountable? He knows! What? Do you really think that you can approve of the sodomite and not suffer judgment?

The "Sincere Offer" of the Gospel The doctrine in question has been called "the free offer," "the well-meant offer," and "the sincere offer" of the gospel. It is a false teaching that makes God into a schizophrenic fool. It is unbiblical and irrational, and it must be opposed.

we are indeed saved by believing a book, this book, for there is no difference between believing the book and believing the person. As long as we do not separate the revelation of Christ from the person of Christ, since these cannot really be separated, then we are indeed saved by the Bible, and in it we find eternal life.

We must overturn any theologian that appeals to God's incomprehensibility in order to negate God's knowability.

Although even Christians often assume that human beings possess free will, it is a pagan notion that finds no support from the Bible.

It does not pretend to grant you the right to oppose or debate it. You must agree with it, believe it, and obey it. It does not respect private values and private opinions, as if we are each our own god. It ignores those things that we would consider our rights when we are dealing with our fellow human beings. This is because when we are dealing with the Bible, we are not dealing with other human beings, but with God himself.

person who fellowships with God must know that there is a God, that God is a Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and not Allah, or Buddha, his neighbor's cat, or the tree in his backyard.

As for the charge that the doctrine of predestination encourages licentiousness, there must be something wrong – something depraved and sinister – in those who make this objection.

truth is truth, regardless of whether it seems to be "anti" anything. It is foolish to cite racial or cultural prejudice as an argument against a theological doctrine when we are considering its veracity and not the motive for supporting

The wrath of God is just as much a divine attribute as his love; therefore, to have a proper understanding of God, we must know and embrace the doctrine of the wrath of God.

all that God has revealed – all biblical doctrines – are conceivable, understandable, reasonable, defensible, and undeniable.

Those who claim to be Christians but who scorn doctrinal studies do not truly love God, even though they would like to think that they love him. But to love God by our own definition and on our own terms is not to regard him as God, and thus not to love him at all.

because many churches are negligent and disobedient when it comes to maintaining the purity of the faith or the community.

We must defy theologians who insist that God no longer performs the miraculous or speaks to people in special ways,

The Bible affirms active reprobation, active hardening, and active judgment.

The biblical doctrine is straightforward. There is no "sincere offer." God commands men everywhere to repent –

every sermon must be biblical in its contents – it must completely agree with the Bible, and every biblical passage must be interpreted in context.

Christians should not attempt to defend a general theism, but a definite biblical idea of God.

it necessarily follows that it is the Bible that judges and the Bible that damns. God damns to hell whomever the Bible damns to hell. There is no difference.

The Bible says that all men born after Adam are sinful at conception. We are all born sinners.

Without a knowledge of sound theology, it is easy for a person to be "tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming" (Ephesians 4:14).

There is no salvation outside of the Bible because there is no way to know God or his way to salvation outside of the writings of the prophets and the apostles.

Let us never become weary of basic doctrines, especially this chief of doctrines, that God is God.