Greg L. Bahnsen Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.