Greg L. Bahnsen





Greg L. Bahnsen

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born
in Auburn, Washington, The United States
September 17, 1948

died
December 11, 1995

gender
male

website

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influences
Cornelius Van Til


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Greg L. Bahnsen was an influential Calvinist Christian philosopher, apologist, and debater. He was an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a full time Scholar in Residence for the Southern California Center for Christian Studies.


Average rating: 4.23 · 797 ratings · 114 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors
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More books by Greg L. Bahnsen…
“Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.”
Greg L. Bahnsen

“The 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… 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. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some men’s will against the will of other men.”
Greg L. Bahnsen

“There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.”
Greg L. Bahnsen, Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended