“We want to start at the very beginning and we think that the very beginning is ‘How can we know anything at all?’ And, once we have answered the question of how we know, we ask how we can possibly know that. And as it turns out, it really is turtles all the way down” …
Faith Sits
“When a man sits down in a chair, he certainly has faith in the chair. But it is the chair that holds him, not his faith. The faith does not provide an iota of additional strength to the chair. But the faith still sits” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 76).
Inexorable Futures
“A child in the womb knows nothing of birth, a nursing child knows nothing of running around in the yard, a toddler knows nothing of falling in love, a man knows nothing of the resurrection of the dead” (Mere Fundamentalism, pp. 74-75).
Basic
“If God lives, then we shall live again” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 70).
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The Root Issue
“God is only unbelievable because God is unbearable—for He is holy and we are not” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 68).
Zero to the Tenth Power
“God is a self-existent being, the one who called Himself I Am That I Am, and so consequently the chances of Him not existing are zero” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 67).
What Are the Odds?
“Put another way, life from the dead once in an evolutionist’s world is far less likely than life from the dead twice in the Christian world. This is because we are comparing random chance occurrences to deliberate acts performed by a person, and it is like comparing apples and glaciers” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 67).
So It Is Only a Miracle the Second Time?
“Everyone believes that living things come from dead things. Christians believe that God fashioned Adam from the dust of the ground. Evolutionists believe that we emerged millions of years ago from the primordial goo. So both believe that animated life came from inanimate matter. Both believe that first there was no-life and then there was …
The Real Problem
“We demand to know how a loving God can send anyone to Hell, when the real problem is how a just God could send anyone anywhere else” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 59).
The Mechanics of Wrath
“In the first chapter of Romans, the apostle describes the mechanics of wrath in this way. The wrath of God is visited from Heaven on all the ungodliness of men, but he does not go on to describe lightning bolts and hail the size of cantaloupes. No, the wrath of God is described as God …