This discussion is, without a doubt, the single best example of disagreeing discussion between two believers I have ever read on the internet. It’s one of the best I’ve ever read anywhere, period. I praise God for Thabiti Anyabwile and Doug Wilson handling this so well. Yes, it’s over 20 long blog posts long; no, you won’t get through it in an afternoon; yes, you should read all of it anyway. You’ll be edified.
If you want to find an instance of true gratitude for the infinite grace of God, do not go to those who think of God’s love as something that cost nothing, but go rather to those who in agony of soul have faced the awful fact of the guilt of sin, and then have come to know with a trembling wonder that the miracle of all miracles has been accomplished, and that the eternal Son has died in their stead.
—J. Gresham Machen, “What the Bible Teaches About Jesus,”
quoted in Rid of My Disgrace, by Lindsey A. Holcomb, Justin S. Holcomb