faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
“Has anyone provided proof of God’s inexistence? Not even close. Has quantum cosmology explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here? Not even close. Have our sciences explained why our universe seems to be fine-tuned to allow for the existence of life? Not even close. Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything so long as it is not religious thought? Close enough. Has rationalism and moral thought provided us with an understanding of what is good, what is right, and what is moral? Not close enough. Has secularism in the terrible 20th century been a force for good? Not even close, to being close. Is there a narrow and oppressive orthodoxy in the sciences? Close enough. Does anything in the sciences or their philosophy justify the claim that religious belief is irrational? Not even in the ball park. Is scientific atheism a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt? Dead on.”
― The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
― The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
“Behavior is the fruit, but the heart is the root.”4 Lasting change happens when the heart is transformed.”
― M.O.T.I.V.A.T.E Updated Edition: 8 Secrets of Successful Parenting
― M.O.T.I.V.A.T.E Updated Edition: 8 Secrets of Successful Parenting
“[He said] when you read the Bible17, you must think that here and now God is speaking with me. . . . He wasn’t as abstract as the Greek teachers and all the others. Rather, from the very beginning, he taught us that we had to read the Bible as it was directed at us, as the word of God directly to us. Not something general, not something generally applicable, but rather with a personal relationship to us.”
― Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
― Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
“Behind the political and social crisis of the church in modern society, there stands the Christological crisis: From whom does the church really take its bearings? Who is Jesus Christ, really, for us today? In this identity-crisis of Christianity, the question of God lies hidden: Which God governs Christian existence — the one who was crucified or the idols of religion, class, race and society? Without a new clarity in Christian faith itself, there will be no credibility in Christian life. — Jürgen Moltmann (1973)”
― The Death of Western Christianity: Drinking from the Poisoned Wells of the Cultural Revolution
― The Death of Western Christianity: Drinking from the Poisoned Wells of the Cultural Revolution
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