Greg Koukl Quotes

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• Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.

  Greg Koukl

  Atheist, Father, Cutting

  "Is Atheism a Crutch?". str.typepad.com. March 24, 2010.

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• So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of reason is irrationality. Do some Christians have irrational faith? Sure. Do some skeptics have unreasonable unbelief? You bet. It works both ways.

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  Christian, Opposites, Records

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• God is the very first piece of the Christian Story because the Story is all about Him. He is the central character, not us. The Story is not so much about God's plan for our lives as it is about our lives for God's plan.

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  Christian, Character, Firsts

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Our reasons for believing Jesus existed and also that He was who He claimed to be - the God who came down - are the same reasons for believing any fact of history: the documentation is substantial and it passes all the tests of historical reliability. Scholars - both liberal and conservative - overwhelming agree that Jesus of Nazareth was a man of history and the Gospels, on the main, tell His story accurately.

  Greg Koukl

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

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  Abortion, Adequate, Justification

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• If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between humans and animals, there's no life after death, and there's no purpose to human history. Now, are you trying to tell me that it doesn't really matter if people believe we evolved or not?

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  Believe, Animal, Differences

  "Does It Matter If We Evolved?". str.typepad.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.

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  Evil, World, Way

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes someone mad, there’s little you can do about it. Jesus’ teaching made some people furious. Just make sure it’s your ideas that offend and not you, that your beliefs cause the dispute and not your behavior.

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  Jesus, Teaching, Expression

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• There is no neutral ground when it comes to the tolerance question. Everybody has a point of view she thinks is right, and everybody passes judgment at some point or another. The Christian gets pigeonholed as the judgmental one, but everyone else is judging, too, even people who consider themselves relativists.

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  Christian, Thinking, Views

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• We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

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  Want, Offensive

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• Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us how things began, where everything came from (including us), the reason for our origins, and what ultimate reality is like. "Fall" describes the problem (since we all know something has gone wrong with the world). "Redemption" gives us the solution, the way to fix what went wrong. "Restoration" describes what the world would look like once the repair begins to take place.

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  Fall, Reality, Four Elements

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

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  Use Of Knowledge, Method, Diplomatic

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• Why so many mentions regarding Jesus from such a wide variety of sources (Pliny, Tacitus, Lucian, Josephus, to name a few)? Because Jesus of Nazareth was a man of history, who made a profound impact on history. There's no good reason to doubt that Jesus existed, or to think the real Jesus was completely different from the one depicted in the Story.

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  Jesus, Real, Men

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

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  Men, Moral Freedom, Moral

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Reality has a way of injuring people who don't take it seriously. If you don't believe in gravity, for example, and then step off a tall building, you won't just float away.

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  Believe, Reality, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even if they haven't thought about it much or worked out all the details.

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  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Our value is built into us, and nothing and no one can take it away.

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  Built, Values

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

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  Work Out, Evil, Surprise

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

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  Reality, Trying, Deny

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• Our innate, built-in human value is the reason we have binding duties or obligations towards each other that we don't have towards any other kind of thing. It's also the reason we have unalienable human rights. If man's God-given, special value falls, then unalienable human rights fall, too.

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  Fall, Men, Rights

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

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  Christian, Pain, Evil

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be in the first place. Everything is just matter in motion and that's that. In Mind-ism (monism) there's a different route to the same problem. There cannot be a problem of evil, even in principle, since in Mind-ism even morality is maya; illusion. In neither story, then (if we're to be consistent with their principles), can the issue of evil be raised. But in real life the problem comes up all the time. That's the difficulty.

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  Real, Issues, Evil

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

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  Explanation, Refutation

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• Every worldview has its ambiguities - debatable elements that people simply will not see to eye on. There's nothing wrong with that as long as the disagreement is principled and dignified. I actually think that arguments - as opposed to quarrels - are good things because they're the best way to figure out what's true. Share your reasons, listen carefully to each other, be nice, and may the best idea win.

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  Nice, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Two things have been bothering me for a long time. The first is the tendency of people in general - and that includes Christians - to "relativize" religion. Any religious belief is only "true for," so to speak - true for you or true for me or true for those people on the other side of the world. Second, I've been bothered by how poorly believers understand their own Story. They have bits and pieces, of course, but they're missing enough that they can easily become prey to ideas that sound spiritual, but end up being foolishness in the end.

  Greg Koukl

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  Source: www.patheos.com

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