Quotes About Belief

Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

Paul sets forth the attitude to which the defender of the faith must be committed: "Let God be found true, but every man a liar.

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

To reason with the non-Christian in a fashion purporting to be independent of God or independent of reliance upon revelation is to honor the unregenerate's notions of "evidence" and "verification" as legitimate and correct. However, for the Christian, it is Scripture that governs *every* aspect of his life, even his concept of "evidence" and the way he reasons with skeptics.

There are no facts or uses of reason which are available outside of the interpretive system. The argument must pit the unbeliever's system of thought as a unit against the believer's system of thought as a unit. Their overall perspectives will have to contend with each other.

To avoid Christ in your thought at any point, then, is to be misled, untruthful, and spiritually dead.

Christian apologetics is a defense of religious faith, thus pertaining to the question of one's ultimate commitment in life. Apologetics entails intellectual reasoning in justification of one's beliefs, thus touching on the epistemological question of the final standard of knowledge.

The believer and the unbeliever recognize two different final standards for living including that aspect of living known as thinking, reasoning, and arguing. They are divided by their ultimate commitments, either to Christ or to some other authority (usually themselves).

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists, continue to breathe-they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgements [which assumes absolute values]-but the atheistic view of things would in theory makes such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

All men have their presuppositions; none is neutral. Shall your presuppositions be the teachings of Christ or the vain deception against which Paul warns? Choose this day whom ye shall serve!

5Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.

Guess what? Your god is you. You just made him up. Your god is fake, because you can't edit out the parts of the Bible you don't like. If you treat the Word of God like a buffet line and say, "I will take this aspect of God, but I don't like that one," then you will end up with a god of your own making. It won't be the God of the Bible. And that god of yours won't be able to save you in the final day, because it isn't real.

What a heartbreak it would be to live an 'almost' Christian life, then 'almost' get into Heaven.

He will not force you to share your faith, but He will prompt you. And when you take that step of faith, He will empower and use you.

This doesn't make sense to me right now, but it's all going to make sense in eternity. It will produce something in eternity that would not have been there otherwise. So in faith I'm going to

As Christians, regardless of what cause we may have to be troubled, there is greater cause not to be.

Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.

1Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God.