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Ames Broen
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“Both Genesis and science say that the universe is geared to supporting human life. But Genesis says more. It says that you, as a human being, bear the image of God. The starry heavens show the glory of God, yes; but they are not made in God’s image. You are. That makes you unique. It gives you incalculable value. The galaxies are unimaginably large compared with you. However, you know that they exist, but they don’t know that you exist. You are more significant, therefore, than a galaxy.”
― Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis & Science
― Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis & Science
“The dull mind rises to the truth through material”
― Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
― Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
“Czeslaw Milosz, who had reason to know, writes: “A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death — the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged.”54 Thus, if God does exist, atheism can be seen as a psychological escape mechanism to avoid taking ultimate responsibility for one’s own life.”
― Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are missing the target
― Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are missing the target
“One of Richard Dawkins’s main God Delusion arguments is that, if God created everything, we would have to ask who created God. But the very asking of this question reveals at once that Dawkins has in mind a created God: “Who created God?” Created gods certainly are a delusion.”
― Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science
― Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science
“We can make 'intelligent' missiles that can make war on one particular building hundreds of miles away, but we don't have an equivalent one that can make peace. Might that be because we have worshipped the gods of war, but have forgotten about worshipping the prince of peace? We can put a few men on the moon, but the few men who were standing between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda in 1994 had to be withdrawn for lack of funds and political will. Might that be because we have worshipped the gods of technology, the gods who boost our own national security--the gods we have wanted, i other words--and have forgotten the God who asked Cain, 'Where is Abel your brother?”
― For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church
― For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church
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