Whether one agrees or disagrees (or decides "it& #39;s complicated") with @JohnPiper& #39;s recent piece, one cannot deny how utterly tethered to the Scriptures it is. https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/policies-persons-and-paths-to-ruin">https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/...

Again, you may not arrive at the same interpretative conclusions that he does, but there should be no mistaking "where he& #39;s getting this stuff." It appears that he is attempting to faithfully personalize biblical wisdom about the tongue, about personal wickedness, etc.

In any event, one thing I notice in more than a few responses to Piper is that contrast. They do not seem as evidently derived from *texts.* I haven& #39;t read them all of course. But the ones I& #39;ve read don& #39;t seem to be as explicitly connected to biblical arguments but more pragmatic