The Gospel in Genesis Quotes

“The world is tremendously busy trying to cover up its nakedness, trying to get back again the glory that has been lost.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Gospel in Genesis: From Fig Leaves to Faith

“Adam, where are you?” In every respect, where are you, man? Where are you, woman? Come out of that hiding place and face the truth, for you have to. You are in God’s world. You are God’s creature, and you cannot avoid him. You cannot evade him. You have to deal with him. And if you do not listen to him in life, you will have to listen to him in death. When your name is called out at the great judgment throne in eternity, you will have to step forward and listen to the verdict.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Gospel in Genesis: From Fig Leaves to Faith

“The tragedy of the world today is that it starts too near to its problems.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Gospel in Genesis: From Fig Leaves to Faith

“this is not allegory. I have no gospel unless this is history. In addition, I have been pointing out that as well as being a literal historical record of something that actually happened, Genesis 3 is also, in the most amazing way, an account and a description of the very thing that happens to us one by one. For the astounding fact is that every one of us repeats the action of Adam and Eve.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Gospel in Genesis: From Fig Leaves to Faith

“No book in the world today comes to us in the particular way that the Bible comes to us, exactly where we are, in our exact predicament. In other words, this third chapter of the book of Genesis is absolutely essential to a true understanding of life, the whole of life as it is at this moment for each individual.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Gospel in Genesis: From Fig Leaves to Faith

“And then we come to Jesus of Nazareth and the Christian claim that he was God and man, that there were two natures in that one Person. Well, we must spend at least a night on this. Let’s have this out. Is that possible? Is it conceivable? Then there is this question of Jesus’ death on a cross on Calvary’s hill, the great doctrine about something called “atonement”—that one died for others, that he made himself a substitute, and so on. So we take this up. Is this even moral? Is it conceivable? Can it happen? We spend a whole night arguing about that. And the whole time we think we have been discussing Christianity. There is a sense, of course, in which we have, but there is another sense in which we have not, because, my friend, you can not only go to your grave but you can even go to hell just doing that. Christianity, primarily, is not a discussion about ideas. It is a discussion about you.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Gospel in Genesis: From Fig Leaves to Faith