40 Quotes by Norman L. Geisler

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    Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.

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    We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing.Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought.Without logic (the laws of thought), we can’t even think

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    It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2 Peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God can’t force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    If something is true, it’s true for all people, at all times, in all places. All truth claims are absolute, narrow, and exclusive.

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