Stealing from God Quotes

“So evil can’t exist unless good exists. But good can’t exist unless God exists. In other words, there can be no objective evil unless there is objective good, and there can be no objective good unless God exists. If evil is real—and we all know it is—then God exists.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“God’s signature is not just in the cell, it’s in all of creation. God is as necessary to the universe as a band is to music. Once the band stops playing, the music is over.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“To say that a scientist can disprove the existence of God is like saying a mechanic can disprove the existence of Henry Ford. It doesn’t follow.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist. That’s why instead of debating “Does God exist?” I prefer to debate the question “What better explains reality: atheism or theism?”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“So instead of providing another intellectual answer that would be ignored, David cut right to the heart. He said, “You’re raising all of these objections because you’re sleeping with your girlfriend. Am I right?” All the blood drained from the young man’s face. He was caught. He was rejecting God because he didn’t like God’s morality. And he was disguising it with feigned intellectual objections. This young man wasn’t the first atheist or agnostic to admit that his desire to follow his own agenda was keeping him out of the kingdom. In the first chapter of his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul revealed this tendency we humans have to “suppress the truth” about God in order to follow our own desires. In other words, unbelief is more motivated by the heart than the head. Some prominent atheists have admitted this. Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously wrote, “God is dead and we have killed him,” also wrote, “If one were to prove this God of the Christians to us, we should be even less able to believe in him.”[24] Obviously Nietzsche’s rejection of God was not intellectual! Professor Thomas Nagel of NYU more recently wrote, “I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that. My”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“Virgin Birth. Abiogenesis. Resurrection from the dead. Random mutations producing the raw material for new organs. Intelligent creation ex nihilo. Eternal matter. Eternal mind. Heaven. Multiverses. Speciation by unguided, natural selection. Hell. Natural DNA information generation. Adam. Panspermia. Angels. No immaterial soul. Miracles. Space aliens. God. No God.”[11] That’s how blogger Roddy Bullock began a post called, “Everyone Believes Something Unbelievable.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“The God the new atheists reject is not the actual God of the Bible.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“We love the truth when it enlightens us. We hate the truth when it convicts us.”
― Frank Turek, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case