Always Ready Quotes

“Humble submission to God’s word must precede man’s every intellectual pursuit.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“The foundation of knowledge is God’s revelation.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“To avoid Christ in your thought at any point, then, is to be misled, untruthful, and spiritually dead.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“There is no environment where man can flee to escape the revelational presence of God (Ps. 139:8).”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“It appears dogmatic and absolutistic because, it is dogmatic and absolutistic. The Christian should not be ashamed of this fact. He ought to have the humble boldness to tell a lost world that the Christian message is unconditionally true and the necessary presupposition of all thought (absolutistic), that Christ’s gospel demands repentance (including a “change of mind”), and that God’s word has definite doctrinal content which is authoritatively revealed “directly from above” (dogmatic).”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“In principle two complete philosophic systems or perspectives come into conflict when the veracity of the Christian faith is debated. It is for that reason that the apologist cannot be satisfied to argue merely about certain facts (even those very special facts known as “miracles,” like Christ’s resurrection). Factual argumentation may become necessary, but it is never sufficient. What one takes to be factual, as well as the interpretation of accepted facts, will be governed by his underlying philosophy of fact—that is, by more basic, all-pervasive, value-oriented, categorizing, possibility-determining, probability-rating, supra-experiential, religiously-motivated presuppositions. It is at this presuppositional level that”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“All men have their presuppositions; none is neutral. Shall your presuppositions be the teachings of Christ or the vain deception against which Paul warns? Choose this day whom ye shall serve!”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“The philosophy which Paul spurns is that reasoning which follows the presuppositions (the elementary assumptions) of the world, and thereby is “not according to Christ.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“Paul infallibly declares in Colossians 2:3-8 that “All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in Christ.” Note he says all wisdom and knowledge is deposited in the person of Christ—whether it be about the War of 1812, water’s chemical composition, the literature of Shakespeare, or the laws of logic! Every academic pursuit and every thought must be related to Jesus Christ, for Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6) To avoid Christ in your thought at any point, then, is to be misled, untruthful, and spiritually dead. To put aside your Christian commitments when it comes to defending the faith or sending”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“God’s mind gives both diversity and order to all things, thus guarantying the reality of particulars (multiplicity) and yet assuring that they are intelligible (unity).”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“Those who wish to gain dignity in the eyes of the world’s intellectuals by wearing the badge of “neutrality” only do so at the expense of refusing to be set apart by God’s truth.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“Attempting to be neutral in one’s intellectual endeavors (whether research, argumentation, reasoning, or teaching) is tantamount to striving to erase the antithesis between the Christian and the unbeliever.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found in Christ; thus if one were to try and arrive at the truth apart from commitment to the epistemic authority of Jesus Christ he would be robbed through vain philosophy and deluded by crafty deceit (see Col. 2:3-8).”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith

“Neutrality is in actuality veiled agnosticism or unbelief—a failure to walk in Christ, an obscuring of Christian commitment and distinctives, a suppression of the truth (cf. Rom. 1:21, 25).”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith