Quotes from Norman L. Geisler

In fact, hypocrisy in the church probably repels people more than any other factor. Someone once said the biggest problem with Christianity is Christians!)

Justification is the act of declaring a sinner righteous in the eyes of God.

That is, the infrared pictures taken by COBE point to the existence of matter from the very early universe that would ultimately form into galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

In 1989 the search for these ripples was intensified when NASA launched the $200 million satellite aptly called COBE for Cosmic Background Explorer. Carrying extremely sensitive instruments, COBE was able to see whether or not these ripples actually existed in the background radiation and how precise they were.

In fact, the ripples are so exact (down to one part in one hundred thousand) that Smoot called them the "machining marks from the creation of the universe" and the "fingerprints of the maker."15

The E in SURGE is for Einstein.

The theory itself, which has been verified to five decimal places, demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and matter. It shows that time, space, and matter are co-relative. That is, they are interdependent—you can't have one without the others.

U—The Universe Is Expanding

These two Bell Lab scientists had discovered the afterglow from the Big Bang fireball explosion!

Technically known as the cosmic background radiation

This light is no longer visible because its wavelength has been stretched by the expanding universe to wavelengths slightly shorter than those produced by a microwave oven. But the heat can still be detected.

G—Great Galaxy Seeds

General Relativity supports what is one of the oldest formal arguments for the existence of a theistic God—the Cosmological Argument.

Jesus in Every Section of the Bible

It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2 Peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God can't force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.

Law of Causality, which is the fundamental principle of science. Without the Law of Causality, science is impossible.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!" —RON CARLSON

Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

S—The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Second Law states, among other things, that the universe is running out of usable energy.

We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing. Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought. Without logic (the laws of thought), we can't even think

In the same way, the universe would be out of energy by now if it had been running from all eternity.