Quotes from Gary Parker

If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.

In the evolutionary worldview, time and death work together to produce upward progress; in the biblical worldview, death came only after Adam's sin corrupted God's perfect creation, and sin and death work together to produce downward decline — until Christ comes again, conquering sin and death and making all things new!