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
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
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
“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
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
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
