Quotes About Belief

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.

Christianity is saving truth and it's sanctifying truth, but we believe that it's Total Truth. It is the truth about every aspect of life from economics to masculinity to marriage. God has the right view on all of these things.

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

God cannot be rejected without putting something else in his place.

Christianity was permitted to tell Sunday school stories as object lessons to inspire morality, but it was not allowed to claim that those stories were true.

The biblical worldview fulfills both the requirements of human reason and the yearnings of the human spirit.

In every age, the gospel fulfills people's most profound aspirations.

a mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence.

Even if a group of children were put "on an island and they raised themselves," Barrett adds, "I think they would believe in God." 13 It appears that we have to be educated out of the knowledge of God by secular schools and media.

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

children tend to hold a concept of God even if their parents are atheists.

Calvin taught that all people have an innate sense of the divine (sensus divinitatis).

Christians are called to tear down mental fortresses and liberate people from the power of false ideas.

The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.

The danger is that is Christians do not consciously develop a biblical approach to a subject, then we will unconsciously absorb some other philosophical approach.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it consisted of religiously neutral knowledge, where biblical truth has nothing important to say.

Ä°nsanlar?n iyi niyetleri suistimal ediliyor." "Kim taraf?ndan?" "Biz tabii ki!Hasta insanlar?n buraya gelip o aptalca hikayelere inanmalar?na izin veriyoruz ve iÅŸleri onlar için daha kötü hale getiriyoruz." "?nsanlar?n okuduklar? ÅŸeylere inanmalr?n?engelleyen bir yasa henüz yok ,Abby." "Fakat doland?rmay? engelleyen var.

In every decision we make, we are not just deciding what we want to do. We are expressing our view of the purpose of human life.

C. S. Lewis put it this way: "The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe.

So here is Paul's diagnosis of the human condition so far: God is constantly reaching out to people with evidence of his existence through general revelation. But humans are constantly suppressing those truths by creating idols.

Christians must become independent thinkers with the tools to think critically about diverse points of view—weighing the evidence and judging the validity of arguments.

Christianity is total truth—consistent, coherent, and comprehensive. It can be lived out in the real worldview without contradicting our most basic human experience.