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It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's

It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action.

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Lying, Men, Guarantees
J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.81, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.

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Biblical, Men, Self
J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

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Character, Heart, Reality

But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type of traditionalism, unthinking and uncritical, which is carnal and devilish. But there is also a respectful willingness to take help from the Church's past in order to understand the Bible in the present; and such traditionalism is spiritual and Christian.

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Christian, Spiritual, Biblical
J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.20, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct

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Children, Attitude, Teaching

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

J. I. Packer
Book, Profound, Indirect
"Theologian J.I. Packer reflects on sharing his faith". Interview with Sue Nowicki, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2009.

...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.

J. I. Packer
Heart, Hell, Pity

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

J. I. Packer
Christian, Religious, Heritage

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

J. I. Packer
Running, Thinking, Indulge In
J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.126, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

J. I. Packer
Process, Sovereignty, Publication

But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.

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Eye, Would Be, Narrative
J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing