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Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I've noticed all those in favor of abortion are already born." Indeed, all pro-abortionists would become pro-life immediately if they found themselves back in the womb." --
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One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.
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If we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain." --C. S. LEWIS"
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God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling.
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natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species.
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you ought not judge" is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus' comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)"
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A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
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As we look at the evidence in the ensuing chapters, we'll see that conclusions such as "God exists" and "the Bible is true" are certain beyond reasonable doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian."
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a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.
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Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life--reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God." --JAMES TOUR,"
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Norman L. Geisler |
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The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.
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You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. 10
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The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems..
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Mark Twain had a point when he concluded that it was not the parts of the Bible he did not understand that bothered him--but the parts he did understand!)
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There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" --C. S. LEWIS"
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if someone ever asks you, "Do you believe in evolution?" you should ask that person, "What do you mean by evolution? Do you mean micro- or macroevolution?" Microevolution has been observed; but it cannot be used as evidence for macroevolution, which has never been observed." --
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us.
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In the Old Testament the Rose of Sharon is just budding, but in the New Testament it is in full bloom. The whole Bible is all about Jesus.
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Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places.
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To tell you the truth: I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist." "You're an atheist?" "That's right!" "Well, are you absolutely sure there is no God?" I asked him. He paused, and said, "Well, no, I'm not absolutely sure. I guess it's possible there might be a God." "So you're not really an atheist, then--you're an agnostic," I informed him, "because an atheist says, 'I know there is no God,' and an agnostic says 'I don't know whether there i..
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What amazes us is that parents all over the world are literally paying thousands of dollars in college tuition so that their sons and daughters can be taught the "truth" that there is no truth, not to mention other self-defeating postmodern assertions such as: 8220;All truth is relative" (Is that a relative truth?); " There are no absolutes" (Are you absolutely sure?); and, "It's true for you but not for me!" (Is that statement true just fo..
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He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant. He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was 30. Then, for three years, he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a home. He didn't go to college. He never lived in a big city. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things that usually accom..
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One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." --PHILLIP E. JOHNSON"
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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any specific teaching that contradicts a teaching of the Bible is false.
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difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive.
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Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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there aren't missing links--there's a missing chain!
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J. dBudziszewski points out, "The motto 'Reason Alone!' is nonsense anyway. Reason itself presupposes faith. Why? Because a defense of reason by reason is circular, therefore worthless. Our only guarantee that human reason works is God who made it."
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Christians are not supposed to "just have faith." Christians are commanded to know what they believe and why they believe it. They are commanded to give answers to those who ask (1 Pet. 3:15), and to demolish arguments against the Christian faith (2 Cor. 10:4-5)."
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God overrules the evil intent of humans to accomplish His ultimate good.
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The Saudis may be teaching that Jews are pigs, but in our country, by means of a one-sided biology curriculum, we teach kids that there's really no difference between any human being and a pig. After all, if we're merely the product of blind naturalistic forces--if no deity created us with any special significance--then we are nothing more than pigs with big brains. Does this religious (atheistic) "truth" matter? It does when kids carry out..
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Einstein said that he wanted "to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought, the rest are details."3"
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Christianity is one of the few worldviews that can justify absolute human rights because it affirms that those rights are given to us by God. As our founders recognized, governments aren't meant to give or take away rights: governments are meant to secure rights that the people already possess. That's what we affirmed in our Declaration of Independence.
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skeptics are caught in a dilemma. If they say history cannot be known, then they lose the ability to say evolution is true and Christianity is false. If they admit history can be known, then they must deal with the multiple lines of historical evidence for creation and Christianity.
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Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3
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I confess to your Charity that I have learned to yield this respect and honour only to the canonical books of Scripture: of these alone do I most firmly believe that the authors were completely free from error. And if in these writings I am perplexed by anything which appears to me opposed to truth, I do not hesitate to suppose that either the manuscript is faulty, or the translator has not caught the meaning of what was said, or I myself h..
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In the Gospels--Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles--Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation--Jesus is the King over his people.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond."
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Norman L. Geisler |
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if there is no God, everything is lawful,
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Norman L. Geisler |
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If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate.
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