Inerrancy and Worldview Quotes

“Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

“We need the Holy Spirit to change our hearts if we are going to be willing to come to God and hear his word submissively.”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

“The person who goes astray from God’s wise guidance burdens himself with sorrows and frustrations. In fact, he ends up being a slave to his own desires.”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

“Scientific investigation, narrowly conceived, does not prove materialism. Rather, materialism arises from confusing two distinct moves: (1) the narrow scientific strategy of focusing on what is material and (2) the claim that the narrow focus is all that there is.”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

“But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible’s views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master.”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

“People come to the Bible with expectations that do not fit the Bible, and this clash becomes one main reason, though not the only one, why people do not find the Bible’s claims acceptable.”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

“Some of the thinking about religion makes a mistake right here. If, in our thinking, God or religion becomes like an apple, we are in charge and we do our own investigating in whatever way we please. On the other hand, if God is a person, and in fact a person infinitely greater than we, it is up to him how he chooses to meet us. Until we get to know him, we cannot say whether he makes himself known in all religions equally, or in none of them, or in one particular way that fits his character.”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

“Tim Keller observes, “We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways.”3”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible

“There is an obvious disconnect between someone’s claim to be relativist and his own moral judgments, including his judgment that people ought to be relativist.”
― Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible