Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.
Greg L. BahnsenWhen an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.
Greg L. BahnsenTo reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.
Greg L. BahnsenThe civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) — the standard of self-law or autonomy.
Greg L. Bahnsen