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C. S. Lewis observed, if Christ is not God, then he could not have been an exemplary prophet or a great moral teacher, because he claimed to be God. If he was not who he said he was, then he was either a liar or a lunatic, hardly a great moral teacher or prophet.
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Andy Stanley put it well: "My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school science teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead."
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If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?
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Norman L. Geisler |
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William Dembski points out, "If a creature looks like a dog, smells like a dog, barks like a dog, feels like a dog, and pants like a dog, the burden of evidence lies with the person insisting the creature isn't a dog."
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Norman L. Geisler |
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There are some things even God cannot do. He cannot force anyone to freely accept Him. Forced freedom is a contradiction in terms. This is why Jesus said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. (Matthew 23:37) So the only way God could literally destroy all evil is to destroy ..
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To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the blind man, whereas it is a mere absence in the rock.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Bad things will happen to good people, but a good God has for us a good end, for these bad things will bring about good results: "Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" (2 Corinthians 4:17)."
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Romans contains some seventy-four references to the Old Testament (mostly from Psalms and Isaiah). "It is written" occurs nineteen times in this book, more than half of all the times Paul uses the phrase."
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Norman L. Geisler |
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A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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There's a difference between proving a proposition and accepting a proposition. We might be able to prove Christianity is true beyond reasonable doubt, but only you can choose to accept it. Please consider this question to see if you are open to acceptance: If someone could provide reasonable answers to the most significant questions and objections you have about Christianity--reasonable to the point that Christianity seems true beyond a re..
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Norman L. Geisler |
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On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there's no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn't matter how you live or what you believe--your destiny is dust.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!" --RON CARLSON"
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true (Ps. 119:142). Yet
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Norman L. Geisler |
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when truth goes, the authority of the gospel is undermined, because the gospel tells us all about the Truth.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself. (Pensees, #148)
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Einstein said, "God doesn't play dice with the universe." 22 He was right. As Phillip Gold said, "God plays Scrabble!"
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Norman L. Geisler |
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The incredible specified complexity of life becomes obvious when one considers the message found in the DNA of a one-celled amoeba (a creature so small, several hundred could be lined up in an inch). Staunch Darwinist Richard Dawkins, professor of zoology at Oxford University, admits that the message found in just the cell nucleus of a tiny amoeba is more than all thirty volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica combined, and the entire amoeba..
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Geisler and Van Gordon have done both Christians and non-Christians a great service by writing Somewhere under the Rainbow: A Christian Look at Same-sex "Marriage." They furnish concise yet comprehensive answers to the objections and alternate "interpretations" of God's Word employed by same-sex apologists to justify their lifestyle. Importantly, they also compose a compelling narrative of how Jesus is the answer to same-sex attraction and ..
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Norman L. Geisler |
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C. S. Lewis put it, "If we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain."
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Liberal secularists insist that tolerance is the highest virtue. But they don't tell you what they mean by "tolerance." To them, tolerance doesn't simply involve treating those with different ideas respectfully and civilly. It means affirming their ideas as valid, which Christians can't do without renouncing their own beliefs. If, for example, you subscribe to the biblical prohibition on homosexual behavior as sinful, you cannot at the same..
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New Testament Words for Redemption Greek Words English Meanings References agorazo (verb) to purchase or buy in the marketplace 1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23; 2 Peter 2:1; Rev. 5:9; 14:3-4, etc. exagorazo (verb) to purchase from or buy from the marketplace Gal. 3:13; 4:5; Eph. 5:16; Col. 4:5 lytron (noun) a means of release, means of redeeming Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45 lytroomai (verb) to ransom for release by paying the ransom price Luke 24:21; Titus 2:..
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Many of the central ideas of the major religions cannot be reconciled, which gives the lie to the trendy tenet of pluralism that all religions at their core are the same.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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natural laws are not immutable because they are descriptions of what happens, not prescriptions of what must happen.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Romans 2:14-15 (see Ephesians 2:3)--How can those who are by nature sinners keep God's laws of nature?
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Norman L. Geisler |
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We should certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in God's sight and entitled to equal protection of the laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment. But there is no moral imperative that we adopt the notion that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral imperative that we do not.
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we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth. But
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Norman L. Geisler |
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When one attends a university, he is supposed to be guided in the quest to find unity in diversity--namely, how all the diverse fields of knowledge (the arts, philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics, etc.) fit together to provide a unified picture of life. A tall task indeed, but one that the modern university has not only abandoned but reversed. Instead of universities, we now have pluraversities, institutions that deem every viewpo..
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the greatest miracle of all--the creation of the universe out of nothing--has already occurred, which means Genesis 1:1 and every other miracle in the Bible is believable.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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God can intervene in the universe he created despite what David Hume says.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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chance" is not a cause. Chance is a word that we use to describe mathematical possibilities. It has no power of its own. Chance is nothing. It's what rocks dream about."
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Norman L. Geisler |
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We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty." --SIMON PETER"
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Third, the prohibition against questioning religious beliefs is also an absolute moral position. Why shouldn't we question religious beliefs? Would it be immoral to do so? And if so, by whose standard? Do pluralists have any good reasons supporting their belief that we ought not question religious beliefs, or is it just their own personal opinion that they want to impose on the rest of us? Unless they can give us good reasons for such a mor..
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Chapter 7: In The New Testament Documents Jesus Claimed to be God
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Romans 5:19--If all are made righteous by Christ, why aren't all saved?
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Romans 9--Is this chapter contrary to God's desire for all persons to be saved?
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Romans 9:8--Is God responsible for hardening Pharaoh's heart?
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Romans 9:13--This verse seems to teach that God does not love everybody.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Romans 9:17--How can Pharaoh be free if God hardened his heart?
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Norman L. Geisler |
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All moral choices are free choices. No one can be praised or blamed for an act in which they had no free choice. If they were forced to do it, then they can't get either credit or blame. Hence if God destroyed all freedom, He would be destroying all possibility to love, praise, and worship Him - to say nothing of destroying all possibility of our enjoying His or other people's love, praise, and sacrifice on our behalf.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Simply put, that we don't know a good purpose for some evil does not mean there is no good purpose for it. There are many things we don't know. And there are many things we once did not know but now do know. So it should be expected that in the future we will discover good purposes for things for which we do not now know a good purpose.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. --BLAISE PASCAL
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Norman L. Geisler |
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Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it.
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Norman L. Geisler |
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regardless of what the real truth is concerning religion and morality, our lives are greatly affected by it today and perhaps even in eternity.
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