16 Quotes by Greg L. Bahnsen

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.

The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.

When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God’s Word.

Humble submission to God’s word must precede man’s every intellectual pursuit.

The foundation of knowledge is God’s revelation.

There is no man made in the image of God and living in God’s world, whatever God’s attitude toward him and his own feelings about Christ, who does not know the living and true God, his Creator. All men have the requisite knowledge of God to make them eternally responsible before Him; this was true in the Garden, and it does not cease to be true after the fall. Sin or no sin, special revelation or no special revelation, all men inescapably know their God.

In the nature of the case, the best witness to God’s existence, the truth of His revelation, and the basis of a genuinely sound defense of the Christian faith would be God Himself.