Vern Sheridan Poythress Quotes

#1. People come to the Bible with expectations that do not fit the Bible, and this clash becomes one main reason, though not the only one, why people do not find the Bible's claims acceptable.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#2. Tim Keller observes, "We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways."3

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#3. There is an obvious disconnect between someone's claim to be relativist and his own moral judgments, including his judgment that people ought to be relativist.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#4. Scientific investigation, narrowly conceived, does not prove materialism. Rather, materialism arises from confusing two distinct moves: (1) the narrow scientific strategy of focusing on what is material and (2) the claim that the narrow focus is all that there is.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#5. The person who goes astray from God's wise guidance burdens himself with sorrows and frustrations. In fact, he ends up being a slave to his own desires.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#6. But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible's views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#7. We need the Holy Spirit to change our hearts if we are going to be willing to come to God and hear his word submissively.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#8. The beauty of scientific laws shows the beauty of God himself.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#9. Contrary to secularist myth, science in practice is innately and irrepressibly religious: it serves either God or idolatry. But one of the features of idolatry is deceit. In this case, idolatry conceals from itself that it is idolatry.

Vern Sheridan Poythress