Quotes by Robert Mounce

Robert Mounce (1921–2019) — Neutestamentler, Hochschullehrer und Bibelübersetzer · evangelikal / reformiert-evangelikal · USA

Robert Mounce (1921–2019) war ein US-amerikanischer Neutestamentler, Hochschullehrer und Bibelübersetzer, der unter anderem als Universitätspräsident und Pastor wirkte. Er erlangte Bekanntheit durch seine Mitarbeit an maßgeblichen englischen Bibelübersetzungen wie der NIV und der ESV sowie durch fundierte Bibelkommentare, insbesondere zur Offenbarung des Johannes. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk eine sprachlich präzise und zugleich praxisbezogene Auslegung biblischer Texte aus einer reformiert-evangelikalen Perspektive.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Guilt & Forgiveness, Love, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Doubt & Hard Questions, Ethical Questions, Wisdom & Understanding, Faith & Trust

Quotes by Robert Mounce

The guilty conscience has made man a fugitive from God.

Robert Mounce

God’s stern hatred of evil is a necessary part of His love for man.

Robert Mounce

Society set free from God is its own worst enemy.

Robert Mounce

God’s wrath is not the outworking of impersonal laws of retribution which are built into the structure of reality, but the response of a righteous God to man’s adamant refusal to accept His love. The Greek word refers to anger which is passionate and vehement.

Robert Mounce

All caricatures of God which ignore His intense hatred for sin reveal more about man than about God. In a moral universe God must of necessity oppose evil.

Robert Mounce

Faith is the steady trust which never wavers.

Robert Mounce

Redemptive history remains incomplete until Christ returns. It is for the final act in the great drama of redemption that the church awaits with longing.

Robert Mounce

Patience is the steadfast endurance in the midst of persecution.

Robert Mounce

The world has always shown hostility to the message of God – a truth which ought to give some concern to the contemporary church existing for the most part rather comfortably in a world of increasing wickedness.

Robert Mounce

The hour of trial [in Revelation 3:10] is directed toward the entire non-Christian world, but the believer will be kept from it, not by some previous appearance of Christ to remove the church bodily from the world, but by the spiritual protection He provides against the forces of evil.

Robert Mounce

Sources: legacy.com, whitworth.edu, wikipedia.org, deeperstudy.com

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