Quote of the Day

What we have, then, is a picture of God whose love, even in eternity past, even before the creation of anything is other oriented. This cannot be said (for instance) of Allah. Yet because the God of the Bible is one, this plurality-in-unity does not destroy his entirely appropriate self focus as God. As we shall see in the last chapter, because he is God, he is therefore rightly jealous. To concede he is something other than the center of all, and rightly to be worshiped and adored, would debase his very Godhood. He is the God who, entirely rightly, does not give his glory to another (Isa. 42:8). [Carson, D. A., The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Crossway Books, 2000), pg. 39]