John Piper - The gospel saves from morality

"Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul: Learning from the Mind and Heart of C. S. Lewis"
Desiring God 2010 Conference for Pastors
February 2, 2010

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[desasterz]

YEAAAAAAAH! JOOOOHN!

[thinkingright]

I appreciate that the new covenant writes the "law on our hearts." But, it seems dangerous to believe that there will ever be a time when we can fully act out of our own impulses without regarding the dictates of the law.

After all, pre-fall Eve disregarded the statements of the law to eat of the forbidden fruit because it "seemed" good.

"To the law and the testimony!" must be the Christian's test for everything, even what he/she perceives to be Spirit-granted impulses.

[ndrthrdr1]

Moral values are not absolute.

[mightytosave1000]

I ask the Atheist here to prove that the laws of logic exist. I saw atheist below asking for proves of Christianity. Atheists believe we all came from some explosion. however this does not prove the laws of logic that you are using. the laws of logic are immaterial and you assume they exist. however God is immaterial yet because of that you say he does not exist. the same goes for morals

[patriciacarrasco]

to the atheists commenting on these videos..its not a coincidence, the Holy Spirit is striving with their spirit or else why would they spend so much time here? we must pray for them because theyre searching for truth...

[99minerkc]

@TheRecluse26 PATHETIC!

[TheRecluse26]

@99minerkc The nice thing about faith is you don't need proof. In fact, proof would kind of negate the purpose of faith. The funny thing about people who claim science as some sort of proof for anything is that they actually operate on just as much faith. You have even less proof of the scientific theories that you cling to than Christians do of Christ's death and resurrection. If you don't take the eyewitness accounts of over 500 people of that time, then what will possibly suffice?

[99minerkc]

@TheRecluse26 you said, "The truth was planted in his heart and quickly snatched up by the world and destroyed" what proof do you have to support such an extraordinary claim? How can you possibly know that happened, and let's say it did for the purpose of argument, what proof do you have that this jesus even died? It's possible he was in a temporary comma and came out of it after he was supposedly moved to the cave. Point is what "proof" do you have? thanks

[TheRecluse26]

@99minerkc Yeah, right. I love the generalizations. Clearly not every single person in all of those countries subscribes to the concept of evolution. Besides, it doesn't matter what the majority thinks... if you recall, it is the angry mob that swayed Pilate to turn Jesus over to be crucified. The truth was planted in his heart and quickly snatched up by the world and destroyed. That's a huge function of science in todays world, to steal, destroy and prevent the real truth from being heard.

[99minerkc]

@millball Micro E-yes, Macro E-yes. Jesus-No, not unless you can convince hmm... 4 Billion(rough estimate)people that jesus is divine. As far as evolution is concerned the vast majority of the world believe it NOT creation! The USA along with Turkey, Cyprus, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Lithuania are the only freakin BACKWARDS(regarding evolution)first world countries that don't embrace evolution(data360(dot)org You must be proud to be in the company of such forward thinking countries!