Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
D. A. CarsonPrayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
D. A. CarsonSin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
D. A. CarsonIt is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
D. A. CarsonSystematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as "What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John's Gospel? How does the theme of the temple work itself out across the entire Bible?" Both approaches are legitimate; both are important. They are mutually complementary.
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