R. C. Sproul Quotes
God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
Sproul, R. C. Essential Truths of the Christian Faith. Tyndale House Publishers, 1992, p. 285.
If American fighting men were not killed in the war, they returned to the United States at Hoboken, New Jersey where the troop ships debarked. If the solder didn’t return through Hoboken the assumption was his destination was one of the other two alternatives. It is believed that Cook did not originate the phrase which had circulated in the oral military scuttlebutt of the day. He was the first to write it.
This point of theology is not universally held even amongst Christians. The Spanish Inquisition and much of the Roman Catholic Church in earlier times believed that it was their duty to prevent people from sinning and were opposed to allowing people free choice in moral matters. There are a few Protestant Fundamentalists who feel that way even today, as does much of Islam.
Robert Charles Sproul was an American Reformed theologian and ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries (named for the Ligonier Valley just outside Pittsburgh, where the ministry started as a study center for college and seminary students) and could be heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally. Under Sproul's direction, Ligonier Ministries produced the Ligonier Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, which would eventually grow into the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, of which Sproul, alongside Norman Geisler, was one of the chief architects. Sproul has been described as "the greatest and most influential proponent of the recovery of Reformed theology in the last century."
