Ultimate Questions Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“the doctrine of human responsibility does not depend on the unbiblical teaching of free will, but on the absolute sovereignty of God.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“The Bible never teaches that man is responsible for his sins because he is free. Man is responsible for his sins not because he is free to do otherwise; this verse says that he is not free. Whether man is responsible has to do with whether God decides to hold him accountable; it has nothing to do with whether man is free. Man is responsible because God has decided to judge him for his sins.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Regardless of whether or not man is free, is man "expected or obliged to account" for his actions to God? Yes, because Scripture says, "For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil" (Ecclesiastes 12:14).”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden" (Romans 9:18), and therefore election is "arbitrary," but not in the pejorative sense.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“election is "arbitrary," since God indeed rules "by absolute authority," and election is indeed based on his "individual discretion.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Rather than choosing an individual because of any foreseen faith, the elect individual receives faith precisely because God has chosen him.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“the doctrine of election is foundational to Christian soteriology in particular.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“the one and only sovereign God reasons, creates, sustains, reveals, commands, judges, and saves.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Arminianism says that it is man who chooses whether he will accept Christ, but Jesus says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last" (John 15:16).”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day'" (Romans 11:7-8).”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“God is the one who decides whether a person will have faith in Christ, since faith is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). A person who is spiritually dead cannot produce or exercise faith – God must first regenerate him.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“All human beings are creatures of God, but not all are his children – non-Christians are children of the devil (John 8:44).”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient" (Ephesians 2:1-2).”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“The sinner is spiritually sick and blind, but more than that, he is also spiritually dead.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“We are not saved by our own goodness, because we have none, but we are saved by God's sovereign mercy.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways. (Isaiah 59:7)”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. (Genesis 6:5)”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“God has always regarded evil thoughts as sinful:”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Scripture defines sin as a transgression of God's law, and it is God's law that defines right and wrong. Romans 3:20 says, "Through the law we become conscious of sin," and John writes, "In fact, sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3:4). To break God's command is to do wrong, that is, to sin.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Many people have a distorted concept of sin due to the influence of secular philosophy and psychology.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“the sinful mind is blind, ungrateful, and irrational.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Man depends on God for his continual existence and intellectual operations; he is not autonomous or independent in any sphere of life.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“Christ, that is, the unchangeable excellence of God and his everlasting wisdom, which every rational soul does indeed consult.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions

“God is the only source and cause of knowledge.”
― Vincent Cheung, Ultimate Questions