Tullian Tchividjian Quotes
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
Tchividjian, Tullian. Jesus + Nothing = Everything. Crossway, 2011.
This verse has been one of the bases of Muslim theocratic states like Iran’s claim to legitimacy. The word “govern” is sometimes translated as “judge.” In the context of the 6th century, there were no separation of powers as we know them and judging, governing and legislating were melded.
An old legal maxim: Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.
This sura poses a particularly distressing problem to many Islamic theologians and leaders. Since the closing of Islam in the Middle Ages, the Muslim world has not been as successful as has that of those that they would call disbelievers. But disbelievers were not to be successful. To rationalize this with the reality of history they speculated: What the West has achieved is not success. Evil corrupt rulers of Islamic nations have been holding the Islamic countries back. Islamic nations are punished by Allah because they have not spread Islam as Allah commanded. The barren traditional Islamic lands do not allow development and competition in the world. The latter a major reason there is so much enmity towards Israel and Turkey. The Turks who have become secular and the Israelis who were Jews both developed modern industrial countries without oil. The disbelievers had been extremely successful and this was not only a humiliation but threatened the understood integrity of Islam.
This was the at the time, a typical assessment of the English, Welsh and Scotts about the Irish who were perceived as a lower class of nation. Most interesting was the irreligious perception of a people who would become the most faithful and orthodox of Roman Catholics.
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian, a grandson of Christian evangelist Billy Graham, is a pastor who was removed from ministry of the Presbyterian Church in America denomination, and author of more than a half dozen books about Christianity and current issues, including One Way Love and It is Finished (David C. Cook, 2013 and 2015).
