Paul at Athens Quotes

“It is not the difference between them [non-Christian worldviews] but the fact that all of them, whatever their differences, have in common the assumption of human autonomy that is basic to an understanding even of their internal differences. I do not speak of the autonomy of theoretical thought but of the pretended autonomy of apostate man. It is this and, as it appears to me, basically only this this which all schools of apostate thought have in common. Assuming this autonomy apostate man gives a rebellious covenant-breaking response to the revelational challenge that meets at every turn. The face of the triune God of Scripture confronts him everywhere and all the time. He spends the entire energy of his whole personality in order to escape seeing the face of God.”
― Cornelius Van Til, Paul at Athens

“As a Christian believer I must therefore place myself, for the sake of argument, upon the position of the non-Christian and show him that on his view of man and the cosmos he and the whole culture is based upon, and will sink into, quicksand. If the unbeliever then points to the fact that non-Christian scientists and philosophers have discovered many actual 'states of affairs,' I heartily agree with this but I must tell him that they have done so with barrowed capital. They have done so adventitiously. The actual state of affairs about the entire cosmos is what the Bible says it is.”
― Cornelius Van Til, Paul at Athens