Category Archives: Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
“The gospel isn’t religion” by Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
“Nothing hides our fellow man more than morality, and nothing hides the face of God more than religion. When we are most religious, we may be most at risk of losing touch with God.” –Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Not the Way It’s … Continue reading
“I had it all wrong” by Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
“When television-saturated worshipers attend their local churches or wonder how to draw secular seekers there, it’s not the songs of Zion they want but the songs of Babylon and Hollywood– or something like them. People attend worship with expectations shaped … Continue reading
“These cannot satisfy” by Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
“All forms of idolatry involve us deeply in folly. All idolatry is not only treacherous but also futile. Human desire, deep and restless and seemingly unfulfillable, keeps stuffing itself with finite goods, but these cannot satisfy. If we try to … Continue reading
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“What the Hebrew prophets call shalom” by Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
“The prophets dreamed of a new age in which human crookedness would be straightened out, rough places made plain. The foolish would be made wise, and the wise, humble. They dreamed of a time when the deserts would flower, the … Continue reading
“Not the way it’s supposed to be” by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
“The Bible presents sin by way of major concepts, principally lawlessness and faithlessness, expressed in an array of images: sin is the missing of a target, a wandering from the path, a straying from the fold. Sin is a hard … Continue reading
“Cities of refuge for sinners” by Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
“Our church communities ought to be cities of refuge for sinners, busy with the traffic of forgiveness, busy with people learning the ‘craft’ of forgiveness–ordinarily by getting apprenticed to a master forgiver or two. The idea is that saints ought … Continue reading
“Sin is self-abuse” by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
“Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.” –Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin (Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdmans, 1995), p. 124.
