J.J. Richardson
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Some secularists would suggest that we can have ethical systems that make no reference to God (e.g., Aristotle, Kant). However, while they may make some very positive contributions to ethical discussion (regarding moral virtue/ character or
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“For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.”
― Mere Apologetics: How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith
― Mere Apologetics: How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith
“No books in all the world’s literature have been subjected to such thorough and persistent scrutiny over a period of hundreds of years, as the Gospels.”
― God among Sages: Why Jesus Is Not Just Another Religious Leader
― God among Sages: Why Jesus Is Not Just Another Religious Leader
“In a very real sense, every person who denies God is living of borrowed capital. He enjoys living as if the world is filled with morality, meaning, order and beauty, yet he denies the God whose existence makes such things possible.
When you start with theism - "in the beginning God"- these destinations make complete sense. When you start with materialism though - "in the beginning, the particles" - that route takes you over a cliff of absurdity and despair.”
― Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
When you start with theism - "in the beginning God"- these destinations make complete sense. When you start with materialism though - "in the beginning, the particles" - that route takes you over a cliff of absurdity and despair.”
― Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
“Appeals to imagined forces and phenomena have been the basis for all the cosmological models proposed to avoid the big bang implications about God. The disproof of these models and the ongoing appeal by nontheists to more and more bizarre unknowns and unknowables seem to reflect the growing strength of the case for theism.”
― The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God
― The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God
“If the universe is created, then there must be reality beyond the universe...The Creator is the source of life and establishes its meaning and purpose....To study the origin and development of the universe is, in a sense, to investigate the basis for any meaning and purpose to life. Cosmology has deep theological and philosophical ramifications.”
― The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God
― The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries Reveal God
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