“If we love the Church as she now is, we will love her into the Church that has been promised us” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 105).
A Basic Hope
“The future is necessarily Christian” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 100).
Quicksilver Life
“He has set immortal life loose in the world, resurrection life loose in the world, divine life loose in the world. It can be smashed, but like quicksilver it scatters everywhere. And when it has been scattered everywhere, it begins to grow and multiply from there” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 96).
Ineffable Wisdom
“In a world filled with death and corruption, the Holy Spirit hovers over the face of the sewage lagoon, brooding on the face of the waters. And there, in the midst of all that death, He introduces life” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 95).
All That Is Needed
“The body of Christ has no vestigial organs, no evolutionary leftovers. God gave us a heart so that our blood could circulate. He gave us ankles so that we could walk. He gave us fingernails so that we could pick up dimes on the first try” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 94).
Scripture as Tutor
“The natural world is eloquent, but mute at the same time. The Scriptures teach us how to read nature” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 89).
Comparing the Books
“Natural revelation does not teach us that we all evolved from the primordial slime. It does teach us that homosexual relations are unnatural. The former conflicts with Genesis, and the latter does not conflict with Leviticus” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 88).
But Not All Dumb Mistakes Are God’s Truth
“When we say all truth is God’s truth, we do not mean to say that this truth that we just thought we discovered ten minutes ago should be used to trump what we have known to be true for centuries. That is quite a different thing” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 88).
One Voice
“When someone claims that they do contradict [Christ, Scripture, and natural revelation], this is generally a preface to an attempt at poor exegesis on the form of revelation they consider supreme. If they say that Jesus Himself is to be preferred (over against Scripture and natural revelation), this is likely because Jesus is about to …
Less Than False
“In short, ‘God does not exist’ is not a false statement. It is nonsense, incoherent” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 86).