Michael Horton Quotes

• There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue – at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that’s the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Versions, Ruins

• No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Fall, Taught

• In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Offensive, Message

• Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God’s intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forbid, Join

• Once we truly grasp the message of the ‘New Testament’, it is impossible to read the ‘Old Testament’ again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible, Testament

• The gospel is entirely a message about what someone else has done not only for me but also for the renewal of the whole creation.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Renewal, Whole

• Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sin, Condition

• The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Condemnation, Gospel

• Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ambiguity, Toward

• Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.

  Michael Horton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Christ, Communion

Michael Horton (10)

Birth:	1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Professor, Theologian

About

Michael Scott Horton is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California since 1998, Editor in Chief of Modern Reformation magazine, and President and host of the nationally syndicated radio broadcast, The White Horse Inn.

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