Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGCertainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal.
More William Lane Craig Quotes
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It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
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The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.
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I do plan my study day. I think that prioritizing is absolutely critical. It is so critical that you understand what is important and what can be left undone. Then you will base your schedule on your priorities. You’ve got to be single-minded about your priorities.
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The man who feels like he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body, when he goes into the ladies room, it’s the other women whose privacy it seems to me as being violated by having this man walk in… regardless of how he feels.
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Catching the apple doesn’t overturn the law of gravity or the formulation of a new law. It’s merely an intervention of a person with freewill who overrides the natural causes operative in that particular circumstance. And that is, essentially, is what God does when he causes a miracle to occur.
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The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.
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The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
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In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That’s very different from the way time has normally been understood.
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Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.
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The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus’ resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.
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It’s no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.
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The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.
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Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.
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Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.
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For the assertion that “There is no God” is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that “There is a God.” Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.
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