Greg L. Bahnsen Quotes

#1. To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

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#2. A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

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#3. God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

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#4. There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

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#5. The Word of God is a seamless garment, and men who deny its law deny its eschatology also, and are deprived of God's power. It is not surprising, therefore, that this is an era of impotence for the church.

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#6. If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes
there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

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#7. Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.

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#8. Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and the rules of thought, but their interpretation and use of them are far from neutral.

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#9. Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

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#10. We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.

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#11. Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

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#12. In the nature of the case, the best witness to God's existence, the truth of His revelation, and the basis of a genuinely sound defense of the Christian faith would be God Himself.

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#13. When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.

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#14. There is no environment where man can flee to escape the revelational presence of God (Ps. 139:8).

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#15. With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.

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#16. When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.

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#17. Paul sets forth the attitude to which the defender of the faith must be committed: Let God be found true, but every man a liar.

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#18. The teaching of Colossians 2:3-8 is unambiguous. ALL knowledge (note: not simply knowledge of "religious" matters is to be found in Christ.

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