16 Quotes by Greg L. Bahnsen

With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

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