Any absolute governmental regime?????????whether it comes with the claim of divine right or in the form of godless humanism?????????is ultimately characterized by an ignorance of God???s biblical mandates and a drive for its own domination, regulation, and cont...
Read MoreThe Bible does not claim to offer a rival theory that may or may not be true. It claims to have the truth about all facts.?????????Van Til, Metaphysics of Apologetics, pg. 114
Read MoreInstead of trying to prove the truth of Christianity to the unregenerate, it assumes its truth at the outset and then challenges the natural man by demonstrating that on his presuppositions nothing is true, nothing can be accounted for, and his ow...
Read MoreThe whole end and purpose of history lies, according to Christian theism, not in history itself, but beyond history, in the God of history. This God of history has set the kindom of God as the climax of history.?????????Van Til, Christian Theistic Ethic...
Read More[R]eason is not God and possesses no such authority. Its judgments are based on the tenuous, sinful, and subjective pre-suppositions of a creature and are neither grounded in being or in truth. Reason can only establish a connection with being and...
Read More[I]n his starting point, method, and conclusion, man takes for granted his own ultimacy, insists on being his own god and interpreter, and as a result misinterprets all things, himself, the flowers of the field and the Almighty God.?????????Rushdoony, B...
Read MoreThe basic issue...has not changed since Eden. The temptation of man is ???To be as God,??? knowing, that is, determining for himself what shall be good and what shall be evil. Man establishes his own law and decrees his own righteousness and is not bo...
Read MoreMen of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.?????????Madison, The Federalist, No. 10, pg. 68
Read MoreThe exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing; ownership. In the beginning of the world, the Creator gave to man dominion over the earth, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air, and over every living thing. This i...
Read MoreTo withdraw from the communion of the parish-assemblies, and engage with some society of the faithful that should keep close unto the written word of God, as the rule of their worship...although the provoked rage of his friends tried all the ways ...
Read MoreMany Christians have subconsciously adopted the existential view of history...They de-emphasize their importance in a God-ordained historical chain of Christianity and see themselves simply as individuals God has plucked out of an evil world who a...
Read MoreMost Americans, including most Christians, are products of our progressive public education system. Bored and hopeless youth drag through their civics and social studies classes deprived of the providential view under the guise of separation of ch...
Read More???But oh the mercy of our God! Who was as ready to hear as we to ask: For though in the morning when we assembled together, the heavens were as clear and the drought as like to continue as ever it was: yet (our exercise continuing some eight or nin...
Read MoreI gave a speech last week exegeting Proverbs 21:21. The following are my notes. ???Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, andhonor.??? Proverbs 21:21 (ESV) My ThesisIn a culture of death, impiety and corruptness, men...
Read More"God's Law is law in principle and, for this reason, cannot be set aside. If God were so disposed to set aside one principle of His Law, then He would not have sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sin. He simply would have set aside all of Hi...
Read More"The mind of man is not autonomous. "Thy Word is truth," said Jesus (John 17:17). Man, the creature, must bow before the Word of his Creator. Only as he interprets every fact concerning every area of the universe and concerning himself in subjecti...
Read More"Man ought to see the Creator revealed in the creation. He stands without excuse for not seeing the Creator revealed in the creation. THese things about the Creator are 'understood by the things that are made.'" (Thomas, A Reason for the Hope, pg....
Read More"[Man] is a creature of God, therefore, he must be aware of his Creator. Self-consciousness implies God-consciousness. In order to be conscious of himself as a creature, he must be aware of God, his Creator. In order to rid himself of this conscio...
Read More"Evidentialist apologetics commonly begins with the so-called theistic proofs--those arguments that should establish the probability of the existence of a god, a supreme being who is the cause of all other existence. But what good does it do to pr...
Read More"Only the Holy Spirit, as He works through our faithful presentation of the Word of God to the sinner, can change the sinner's presuppositions and bring him to the Saviour. We are completely dependent upon Him." (Thomas, A Reason for the Hope, pg....
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