Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
J. I. PackerHoly is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
J. I. PackerWe are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
J. I. PackerHas the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards
J. I. Packer