We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.
Greg L. BahnsenThe Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man
Greg L. BahnsenTo reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.
Greg L. BahnsenThere is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.
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) โ the standard of self-law or autonomy.
Greg L. BahnsenIt is important for the apologist who desires to be obedient to the Word of God in defending the faith to pay special attention to the fact that throughout Scripture, God's veracity is not defended, but accepted from the outset on His authority. Unless we have more wisdom than that contained in the revelation of God, we should take the same attitude.
Greg L. Bahnsen