We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.
Francis Schaeffer...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.
Francis SchaefferIn fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
Francis SchaefferAll men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.
Francis SchaefferTell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.
Francis SchaefferIgnorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth in Jesus." Truth is content, truth has something to do with reason. Truth has something to do with the rational creature that God has made us. The dilemma here in the internal world is not just some sort of grey fog, it is in relationship to content.
Francis Schaeffer