Quotes About Belief

Since Christianity is the truth, to perform an investigation for truth independently of it necessarily means that the investigation must adopt a false starting point.

Since this is God's universe, only his interpretation about anything is correct, and he has revealed his thoughts in the words of the Bible. It follows that an ignorance of theology means that a person's interpretation of every subject will lack the defining factor that puts it into the proper perspective.

if you refuse to repent and believe, then one day God will take your life and throw you into the lake of fire. And you shall be numbered with the murderers, adulterers, homosexuals, slanderers, those who practice witchcraft, those who are the lovers of money and pleasure, and all idolaters and unbelievers.

The Bible is bold and honest. It tells you that if you disagree with anything in it, then you are wrong, and God will hold you accountable for your false belief and the false conduct that follows from it.

Although even Christians often assume that human beings possess free will, it is a pagan notion that finds no support from the Bible.

the very ideas of right and wrong remain undefined without his verbal revelation – he must define these concepts for us, and only his definitions are authoritative, relevant, and binding on all people.

It does not pretend to grant you the right to oppose or debate it. You must agree with it, believe it, and obey it. It does not respect private values and private opinions, as if we are each our own god. It ignores those things that we would consider our rights when we are dealing with our fellow human beings. This is because when we are dealing with the Bible, we are not dealing with other human beings, but with God himself.

person who fellowships with God must know that there is a God, that God is a Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and not Allah, or Buddha, his neighbor's cat, or the tree in his backyard.

For man to be free in any relevant sense, he must be free from God, and if he is free from God in any sense and in any degree, then God is not absolutely sovereign. The God of the Bible is rejected.[14]

Salvation is wholly the work of God, so that no one may boast of his works or his good sense in choosing Christ and believing the gospel (John 15:16; Ephesians 2:8). Even after a person has become a Christian, he still has no free will: "It is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

If God has revealed something, then we should learn it and believe it.

God has determined to save the elect and to condemn the reprobates. The elect are those whom God has chosen to save from sin and hell by producing in them faith in the Lord Jesus.

Even the least of the Christians are better off than the non-Christians. Sinners are too foolish to realize this.

Sometimes even a true Christian may fall into serious sin, but such a fall is never permanent. Nevertheless, as long as a person persists in a sinful lifestyle, we have no reason to believe his profession of faith, and therefore should think of him as an unbeliever. Jesus teaches that a stubborn refusal to repent is sufficient reason for excommunication:

God is one "who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will" (v. 11), and not one who considers man's permission and opinion. Since there is divine sovereignty, there is no human freedom, or free will – "only an insane person could believe both of these."[86]

They ridicule us for taking orders from a book that was written thousands of years ago, as if truth changes with time.

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Christianity teaches us about a God who commands humanity to procreate, and about an afterlife and a final judgment.

People hate being told what to do or what to believe, although they think this way in part because they have been told to do so.

all that God has revealed – all biblical doctrines – are conceivable, understandable, reasonable, defensible, and undeniable.

Those who claim to be Christians but who scorn doctrinal studies do not truly love God, even though they would like to think that they love him. But to love God by our own definition and on our own terms is not to regard him as God, and thus not to love him at all.

as Paul puts it, "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14).

We must defy theologians who insist that God no longer performs the miraculous or speaks to people in special ways,

Secular wisdom contradicts and competes against God's divine wisdom. In the areas of science, politics, parenting, marriage, education, and all other areas of thought and life the world embraces ideas that are hostile to Christianity. The Christian must realize that biblical principles are God-ordained precepts, and only they are accurate. Believers must be instructed to have confidence in the divine wisdom that God has given through the words of Scripture.