“What holy word does God speak into a sinful religious world? He says not to bow down before an image in religious devotion.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 40
A Most Convenient Breeze
“The inconsistent Christian writes articles for academic journals explaining how it turns out that the Scriptures, rightly understood, were all along saying just what the latest breeze from off the Zeitgeist Bay would seem to indicate they ought to have been saying.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 35
Project Much?
“When the pomos taught us that all truth claims were disguised power grabs, they were telling us more about their purposes than they were actually intending to.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 34
And His Name is Jehovah
“Truth is objective, ultimate, absolute, personal, alive, and triune.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 33
A Vast Repository
“Accepting the authority of natural law in the sense I am describing does not require a nature/grace dualism. That dualism is found in some of the commentaries, but not in the stars. What is nature but one vast repository of grace?“
Concise and to the Point, p. 29
No Such Thing as Partly Alive
“A corpse is not partly resurrected, and dead faith is not most of the way there.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 26
Not the Norm
“If God had wanted everyone to have a Damascus road experience, He would have given everyone sandals and a horse.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 25
The Creation of Starlight
“If God placed it all here at one fell swoop, it does not give me heartburn to thank Him for starlight from a particular star that has no more been to that star than I have. God created the star, the earth, and the entire rope of starlight in between. That should present no more of a problem than God creating both sides of a rock at the same time.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 22
Adam First
“There is also a deep theological problem with the view that death antedated mankind. The Bible teaches that Adam produced death. The opposing view has to say that in some manner death produced Adam.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 20
On the Age of the Earth
“Everyone in the debate would willing to affirm a Flannelgraph version of the Flood, giraffe and all, if that is what the Bible taught, and everyone in the debate would be willing to affirm a planet creaky with age if that is what the Bible taught.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 18.