The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology

He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.

To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.