Gregory Goswell

Aug 13, 2024 | crossway.org | Jon Nielson |Gregory Goswell |Joel Beeke |Paul M. Smalley

Divinely Inspired WordsThe Bible doesn’t come to us as an academic textbook, with carefully delineated topical headings organized according to theological themes. Certainly, God could have chosen to reveal himself differently. He could have given us a long lists of rules. He could have given us something like an encyclopedia of theological doctrines. But, as we know, that is not how God has chosen to reveal himself to us in his inspired word.

Aug 11, 2024 | crossway.org | Andreas J. Köstenberger |Gregory Goswell |Wayne Grudem |David Jones

Ethical Teaching in the GospelsWhen speaking of the “ethics” of the Gospels, one need not surmise that each of the Gospels, or even the four-Gospel canon, presents a sophisticated moral system in a highly organized form of presentation. Such a systematic presentation would seem to be precluded by their narrative genre, which renders any such body of teaching more indirect and implicit in nature.

Jun 22, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Gregory Goswell |Andreas J. Köstenberger

Readers are warned against thinking that they are wise (Prov. 26:12; Prov. 28:11, 26) and instead are urged to trust God (Prov. 3:7).

Jun 13, 2024 | crossway.org | Andreas J. Köstenberger |Gregory Goswell

Human Cleverness vs. WisdomThe placing of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job in close proximity in various canons is an indicator that Job and Ecclesiastes are not to be viewed as “wisdom in revolt,”1 nor as “protest wisdom.”2 Their authors are not seeking to correct or counter Proverbs, for the placing of the books side by side more likely assumes or asserts their compatibility. This reading is supported by the “epilogue” of Ecclesiastes (Eccl.

Mar 29, 2023 | crossway.org | Gregory Goswell |Andreas J. Köstenberger |Wayne Grudem

The Ethics of the BibleWhen we speak about the ethics in the Bible, we are not just thinking of the Old Testament law or of the Sermon on the Mount, nor do we only have in mind actual moral instructions, injunctions, and prohibitions. The ethics of the Bible is much wider than that and includes the advice of Solomon and other sages, and the stories of Bible characters whose exemplary behavior we should emulate, like David who knows how to forgive his enemies (see 1 Samuel 24 and 26).