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“A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.”

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“Most philosophers do not want intellectual matters to reduce to a question of morality (obedience or rebellion to God's Word). They want to hold the intellect or reason to be above matters of moral volition. They hold that truth is obtainable and testable no matter what ethical condition the thinker is in. Hence, they maintain that all disputes must be…

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“The task of the apologist is not simply to show that there is no hope of eternal salvation outside of Christ, but also that the unbeliever has no present intellectual hope outside of Christ. It is foolish for him to build his house on the ruinous sands of human opinion, instead of the verbal rock of Christ (Matt. 7:24-27). He…

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“Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and the rules…

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“Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.”

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“To avoid Christ in your thought at any point, then, is to be misled, untruthful, and spiritually dead.”

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“To reason with the non-Christian in a fashion purporting to be independent of God or independent of reliance upon revelation is to honor the unregenerate's notions of "evidence" and "verification" as legitimate and correct. However, for the Christian, it is Scripture that governs *every* aspect of his life, even his concept of "evidence" and the way he reasons with skeptics.”

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“We must not defend our message (that Christ's Word is self-attesting and possessing ultimate authority from the Lord) with a method that works counter…

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When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own…

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“Christian apologetics is a defense of religious faith, thus pertaining to the question of one's ultimate commitment in life. Apologetics entails intellectual reasoning in…

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“By reversing the proper order of things, the non-presuppositional apologist sees submission to God's Word as secondary, rather than primary, sees demonstration as the…

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