James N. Anderson > Quotes

“Your worldview is concerned with what you believe, and what you believe influences how you behave—and no one would say it doesn’t matter how you behave.”
― James N. Anderson, What's Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions

“Worldviews also largely determine people’s opinions on matters of ethics and politics. What you think about abortion, euthanasia, same-sex relationships, public education, economic policy, foreign aid, the use of military force, environmentalism, animal rights, genetic enhancement, and almost any other major issue of the day depends on your underlying worldview more than anything else”
― James N. Anderson, What's Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions

“If the laws of logic are metaphysically dependent on God, it follows that every logical argument presupposes the existence of God. What this means is that every sound Theistic argument not only proves the existence of God but also presupposes the existence of God, insofar as that argument depends on logical inference. Indeed, every unsound theistic argument presupposes the existence of God. And the same goes, naturally, for every anti-theistic argument. The irony must not be missed: one can logically argue against God only if God exists.”
― James N. Anderson

“Various other solutions to the problem of induction have been offered, but none has been widely accepted and the issue has proven to be an enduring challenge. At the heart of the problem is the fact that only an omniscient being could possess direct and infallible knowledge of the uniformity of nature across space and time. But this insight also suggests a distinctively Christian solution to the problem of induction. According to a Christian worldview, the God revealed in the Bible is a God of order (1 Cor. 14:33) who created the natural world and exercises sovereign control over it (Gen. 1:1; Isa. 42:5; 45:12; 48:13). God knows that nature is uniform precisely because he is the author of nature and continually sustains it (Jer. 31:35–36). Furthermore, God is the creator of human beings, including our cognitive faculties, which allow us to “think God’s thoughts after him.” As such, our inductive inferences are reliable precisely because God has designed them to be reliable. For those who hold to a Christian worldview, with its robust doctrines of creation, providence, and revelation, the problem of induction need be no problem at all.”
― James N. Anderson

“Jesus himself preached the shocking idea that heaven is for immoral people who admit that they're bad and cry out for God's mercy and forgiveness rather than for moral people who think they're good enough to deserve it.”
― James N. Anderson, What's Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions

“If there's a real, objective distinction between good and evil, then there must be an ultimate standard of goodness in the universe -- and that ultimate standard is simply God.”
― James N. Anderson, What's Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions