Greg L. Bahnsen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Atheist #Philosophical #Breathing
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of Godâ€¦ then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some menâ€™s will against the will of other men.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Men #Expression #Law
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.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Christian #Men #Outlook
Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Self #Scripture #Christ
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Eye #Men #Law
God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Sovereign #Interpretation
It is important for the apologist who desires to be obedient to the Word of God in defending the faith to pay special attention to the fact that throughout Scripture, God's veracity is not defended, but accepted from the outset on His authority. Unless we have more wisdom than that contained in the revelation of God, we should take the same attitude.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Attitude #Desire #Special
A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Men #Would Be #Revelations
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Epistemology #Commit #Rejects
Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Christianity #Virtue #Impossibility
There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Christian #Use #Utterance
When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen

#Independent #Certain #Existence

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