William Lane Craig Quotes

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• The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

  William Lane Craig

  Real, Men, Order

  William Lane Craig (2015). “On Guard for Students: A Thinker's Guide to the Christian Faith”, p.24, David C Cook

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• If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

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  Existence, Gods Will, Seeking God

  William Lane Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2003). “God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is an immature, superficial faith. People who simply ride the roller coaster of emotional experience are cheating themselves out of a deeper and richer Christian faith by neglecting the intellectual side of that faith.

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  Christian, Cheating, Emotional

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• No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Light, Darkness

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like
  prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There
  is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of
  this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we
  have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

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  Atheist, Mean, Men

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.

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  Christian, Believe, Dark

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• The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.

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  Enemy, Records, Jerusalem

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• More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ.
  This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.

  William Lane Craig

  Christ, Apologetic, Ultimate

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.

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  Children, Doctrine, Needs

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• The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element of corruption in men that renders them unworthy of God. Knowledge of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness begets pride, and knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God begets despair, but knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man knowledge of both simultaneously.

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  Christian, Jesus, Pride

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• In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. And you know where you stand there. If we reject Jesus' offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin-except yourself.

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  Jesus, Fall, Order

  William Lane Craig during Debate with Ray Bradley at Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, www.reasonablefaith.org. January 1994.

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• The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.

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  Said, Dostoyevsky, There Is No God

  William Lane Craig (2015). “On Guard for Students: A Thinker's Guide to the Christian Faith”, p.24, David C Cook

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• Catching the apple doesn't overturn the law of gravity or the formulation of a
  new law. It's merely an intervention of a person with freewill who
  overrides the natural causes operative in that particular circumstance.
  And that is, essentially, is what God does when he causes a miracle to
  occur.

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  Law, Apples, Miracle

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• The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

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  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.

  William Lane Craig

  Commitment, Thinking

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• Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can't legitimately object when I make the same claim about God - he is eternal and he is uncaused.

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  Atheist, Maintaining, Bangs

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• If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thoughtful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buffoons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace.

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  Christian, Real, Believe

  William Lane Craig (2010). “On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision”, p.18, David C Cook

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• But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel. God will judge the unreached on the basis of their response to His self-revelation in nature and conscience. The Bible says that from the created order alone, all persons can know that a Creator God exists and that God has implanted His moral law in the hearts of all persons so that they are held morally accountable to God (Rom. 1.20; 2.14-15). The Bible promises salvation to anyone who responds affirmatively to this self-revelation of God

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  Heart, Law, Creator God

  "Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?". The Craig-Bradley Debate in Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, www.reasonablefaith.org. January 1994.

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• For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There is a God." Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.

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  Doe, Claims, Latter

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• The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. Nobody is a post-modernist when it comes to reading the labels on a medicine bottle versus a box of rat poison! You better believe that texts have objective meaning!

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  Believe, Reading, Ideas

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• Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.

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  Successful, Thinking, Encounters

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• The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

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  Agnostic, Reason, Ends

  "Does Reason Lead to Atheism or Theism?". "Reasonable Faith Podcast" with Kevin Harris, www.reasonablefaith.org. July 23, 2012.

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• Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Heart, Light

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.

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  Understanding, Tools, Helping

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• I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.

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  Appreciation, Reflection, Intelligent

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