The Absurdity of Unbelief Quotes

“Self-centeredness is the heart of all sinful behavior. The moral law prohibits selfishness. Each of the Ten Commandments prohibit a different expression of selfishness and can be summed up with the one word that is antithetical to selfishness – love (Rom. 13:9-10).”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“There are only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising to evolution; the other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation, that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with the only possible conclusion that life arose as a supernatural creative act of God. I will not accept that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible; spontaneous generation arising to evolution.[12.35”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Moreover, as we have already seen, the truth claims of the Bible are not rejected because the gospel is rationally incoherent or unsupported by historical evidence. Rather, the truth is rejected because the unchanged heart remains in love with the false notion of its own moral self-righteousness and/or intellectual autonomy.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“materialist explanations of the universe are not scientific in character but are rather religious worldviews masquerading as science.”[”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Since it’s common for me to have errors in judgment, why then would I trust my own judgment over and above the judgment of God? If God has proven Himself to be God, it is absurd for me not to trust Him.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“God’s sovereignty ensures that everything works together for His own glory. Though not all acts in-and-of-themselves, such as sin, bring glory to God, they do work together to accomplish a greater purpose. Everything, including Adolf Hitler and the terrible crimes of Lenin, Stalin, and Pol Pot, will bring praise to God, or otherwise God would not have allowed such calamities. Man’s wicked plans will all be thwarted and turned around before it is all said and done, so that the name of the all-wise, all-good, and all-powerful God will be exalted. Anything less than an all-powerful God could not bring all things, including evil, to a glorious conclusion. Compatibility”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Before the likeness of God in man was defaced by the fall, it consisted of the rational knowledge of God as well as the moral uprightness to love and obey God.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“The universe, according to Calvin, is “a mirror in which we are to behold God.”[6.22] Calvin said, “men cannot open their eyes without being compelled to see him.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“As Greg Bahnsen (1948-1995), former scholar in residence for the Southern California Center for Christian Studies, remarked: “Man is created in the image of God to engage in the world in a rational way.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Though there is an immense gap between Divinity and humanity, this gap is not immeasurable. Knowledge of anything requires some form of similarity or analogous relationship. Some point of connection is required between God and man for communication to be possible. And this is exactly what we find in Genesis 1. As God, in Christ, created all things to reveal the glory of God, He created man in His own image and likeness.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“God manifested Himself in His humanity. He came near by becoming one of us. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“As we have seen, Pseudo-Dionysius claimed that because of God’s infinite transcendence, God cannot reveal Himself to man. Immanuel Kant, on the other hand, claimed that the knowledge of God is impossible because of the epistemological limitations of finite man. Either way, the gap between an infinite God and finite man is too vast for either God or man to cross.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“All truth must be built on the knowledge of God, or, as we shall see, there is no ground for knowledge at all.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Yes, the knowledge of God is an inherent belief.[5.9] Inwardly, we all know this to be true.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Moreover, those who are foolish enough to try and deny the law of non-contradiction end up contradicting themselves in the process. Without the law of non-contradiction, a positive or negative statement can be entirely true and entirely false at the same time and in the same sense. If that were the case, words and propositional statements would mean nothing. Furthermore, to deny the laws of logic is to use a logic that is irrational. Thus, to deny the laws of logic is to argue in a self-referentially absurd manner.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“We call these self-evident truths, such as the law of fair play, axioms. An axiom is a premise or starting point that is taken for granted before acquiring any additional knowledge. Axioms are self-evident beliefs that anchor the rest our beliefs.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“If the Bible provides us with the only cohesive system of thought that allows us to properly interpret all of reality, why is it so hated and rejected by so many? If the truth claims of the Bible are logically demonstrable, why is it so despised and ridiculed by some of the brightest and smartest minds?”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Only irrational fools would consistently and practically deny that 2 + 2 = 4. Not only is the answer to this equation a part of common sense, it is easily demonstrable and highly useful.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Foolishness is living in opposition to what we know to be true. I am afraid this irrational condition and manner of thinking is universally prevalent in all of us. We are not merely irrational every now and then. Without God, we live in a state of irrationality.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Only God’s Word does not contradict itself.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Though faith is not illogical, it trusts God even when it cannot fully make sense of all the data at hand.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

“Faith is the only reasonable response to the truth.”
― Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith