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“But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“God is infinite and we are finite; therefore, we can never know everything about God. But just because we cannot know everything about God does not mean that we cannot know anything about him, and to know him in an accurate and definite manner.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“All things are decided and caused by God – nothing is free from his control, and he has not chosen to forego his control on anything. The doctrine is repulsive to those who abhor the rule and honor of God, and so they oppose it. But the doctrine is a source of comfort and celebration to those who love him. Why would we want it any other way, than for God to rule over all things? And what better life can we wish for, than to be ruled by God?   The doctrine contradicts the religious tradition that God does not decree evil or that he does not cause evil. Of course God does not make decrees against his other decrees. Since God is not insane, he has only one will, one desire.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“The necessity of theology is a question of the necessity of communication from God. Since this is God's universe, divine revelation is the infallible and binding source of information and interpretation regarding all of thought and life. Since God has spoken, and since it is necessary to hear him, to believe him, to obey him, and to declare him, theology is necessary.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“Religious experiences are meaningless unless they are accompanied by verbal communication that carry intelligible content.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“the study of theology is the most important human activity.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“One who respects non-Christian beliefs and who thinks that some of them might be true is probably not a Christian in the first place. Just as Jesus has nothing to learn from the devil, Christians have nothing to learn from non-Christians (2 Corinthians 6:15).[84]”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“We must never allow the non-Christians to think that we are prepared to accept their beliefs or to make the slightest adjustment to the Christian worldview.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“to love God means to devote our intellect to the worship and service of God, to acquire knowledge about him and his commands, and to obey all biblical precepts.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“Jeremiah says that God is one who enforces and delights in justice (Jeremiah 9:24), and Isaiah calls him "a God of justice" (Isaiah 30:18). He will one day "judge the world with justice" (Acts 17:31).”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“it is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from God. If man is free from God in any sense or to any degree, then God does not control everything.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“The necessary result is that the person who claims to believe both divine sovereignty and human freedom believes neither.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“A person who has a billion times the wealth of another still operates within human limitations and the monetary system, but one who has infinite resources operates on an altogether different level. A person who lives a thousand times longer than another person is still mortal, but one who is immortal is not greater only in degree, but also in kind.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“Scientists and non-Christians may wallow in contradictions, but Christians must not tolerate them.”
― Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology

“People want to hear a message that "appeal to some universal self-interest." Truth is unimportant as long as we "give them a spiritual high." Such a false gospel has generated a large group of readers consisting of those who consider themselves Christians but are not, and it is to these false converts that the businesses market their attractively packaged products.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Any compromise in the doctrine of God generates a rippling effect that destroys the integrity of all other biblical doctrines. Once we accept a false view of God, the rest of the system cannot be Christian.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Accordingly, a person who insists that he accepts Christ because of his own free will, and not because of God's sovereign choice and direct action in his soul, cannot at the same time affirm a sovereign God.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Since the only God presented in the Bible is an absolutely sovereign God, a person who affirms human free will cannot, without contradiction, affirm belief in God.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Biblical soteriology cannot rest on a non-biblical epistemology, but it rests on a biblical epistemology that emphasizes the sovereign God and the infallible Scripture.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Creation was by divine fiat. Since "Reason" (Word, Wisdom, Logic) is eternal and preceded creation, the laws of logic were not created. They are true not only for human beings, and they operate not only by cultural convention. Instead, they are necessary laws of thought that had eternally existed in the mind of God – logic is the way God thinks.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions