The Fatal Flaw

“The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.” -Paul Tripp and Tim Lane

More Pain from (Thomas) Paine

“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is considered that the whole space of time, from the crucifixion to what is called the ascension, is but a few days, apparently not more than three or four, and that all the circumstances are reported to have happened nearly about the same spot, Jerusalem, it is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as are in those books. They are more numerous and striking than I had any expectation of finding, when I began this examination, and far more so than I had any idea of when I wrote the former part of ‘The Age of Reason.”  -Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine on the Miracles of the New Testament

“With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person who could tell a story of an apparition, or of a man’s walking, could have made such books; for the story is most wretchedly told.” – Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Your God-Given Spam Folder

“Scientists estimate that for every hundred pieces of information that enter our brains, ninety-nine end up in the spam folder.1 Noticing only one thing out of every hundred is a good thing. As many suffering autistic people will tell you, if you don’t have a good mental spam filter, you can be overwhelmed with useless and harmful data.” -David Murray, The Happy Christian

‘Mystery is Bad’

“Mystery is a great embarrassment of the modern mind.” -Flannery O’Connor, The Teaching of Literature

Clever?

“The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.” -Charles Spurgeon

Blocking out the Spirit

“There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.” -John Calvin

Integrity Non-Starters

“Fear, logic, and tradition will not make you live a good life when no one else is looking.” -Tim Keller

Interpretations of “the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”

 

What exactly was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? OT scholar Gordon Wenham lays out five views on it:

Martyn Lloyd-Jones: “We All Think Emotionally up to a Point…”

Came across this quote about the integrated nature of feeling and thinking, from Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Ephesians 2:1-3. In sum: none of us are unbiased thinkers: