Before saying 'I disagree' be sure you can say 'I understand.' — Roger E. Olson Disagree Copy Share Image
Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry. — Roger E. Olson Idolatry Copy Share Image
Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's… — Roger E. Olson Animal Copy Share Image
Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The… — Roger E. Olson Care Copy Share Image
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So,… — Roger E. Olson Blind Copy Share Image
“People who say that Calvinists teach predestination and deny free will, and that Arminians deny predestination and teach free will are simply… — Roger E. Olson Say Calvinists Copy Share Image
“I once informed a leading evangelical theologian that his newly published systematic theology is thoroughly Arminian even though he never uses the… — Roger E. Olson Evangelical Copy Share Image
If the biblical writers were writing today they might spell out some things more clearly, given how easily even Christians fall into… — Roger E. Olson Aliens Copy Share Image
The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible… — Roger E. Olson Aliens Copy Share Image
Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto… — Roger E. Olson Absolutes Copy Share Image
Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as… — Roger E. Olson Belief Copy Share Image
"Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses.… — Roger E. Olson Creatures Copy Share Image
There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see"… — Roger E. Olson Advertising Copy Share Image
Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out… — Roger E. Olson Asks Copy Share Image
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of… — Roger E. Olson Aliens Copy Share Image
Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and… — Roger E. Olson Biblical Copy Share Image
The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea… — Roger E. Olson Bible Copy Share Image
“Surely we can only come to understand each other's beliefs by means of direct encounter and open, honest discussion. In the meantime,… — Roger E. Olson Catholics Copy Share Image
“If God’s love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially… — Roger E. Olson God love Copy Share Image
“Someone has said that no theology is worth believing that cannot be preached standing in front of the gates of Auschwitz. I,… — Roger E. Olson Judaism Copy Share Image
“It is not uncommon to hear Arminians describe themselves as “moderately Reformed” in order to ingratiate themselves to the movers and shakers… — Roger E. Olson Movers and shakers Copy Share Image
As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and… — Roger E. Olson Creatures Copy Share Image
Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments. — Roger E. Olson Argument Copy Share Image
“Wesley noted that “to say, ‘This man is an Arminian,’ has the same effect on many hearers, as to say ‘This is… — Roger E. Olson Wesley Copy Share Image
The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures… — Roger E. Olson Assuming Copy Share Image
We're created in God's image, but our souls or spirits are not offshoots of God's own Spirit - as New Age teachers… — Roger E. Olson Age Copy Share Image
“The acids of modernity brought about by modern philosophy were just as corrosive for traditional religion as were the ones created by… — Roger E. Olson Modern philosophy Copy Share Image
For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical… — Roger E. Olson Anti christian Copy Share Image
“Arminianism teaches that all humans are born morally and spiritual depraved, and helpless to do anything good or worthy in God’s sight… — Roger E. Olson Arminianism Copy Share Image
The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and… — Roger E. Olson Anticipate Copy Share Image
“If God’s love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially… — Roger E. Olson God love Copy Share Image
To some of us, raised and trained in allowing the Bible to absorb the world (that is, to "see" all of reality… — Roger E. Olson Allowing Copy Share Image
The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality… — Roger E. Olson Age Copy Share Image
GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a… — Roger E. Olson Book Copy Share Image
“If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only… — Roger E. Olson Arminianism Copy Share Image
