The Problem of God Quotes

“Many people assume that being a Christian means you follow all the rules and have your life together. They assume that “Christian” equals “good person”—when the opposite is true. The gospel is not about what we can do for God (good advice), but what God has done for us (good news). Jesus lived a perfect life precisely because we can’t.”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown all began as Christian institutions”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“Now that Jesus has come and completed his work, he has made all things clean. The rules have changed. Evolved.”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“The problem is not that the evidence isn’t there; it’s that we overlook the signposts because we would rather believe something else. If that describes you, I hope that you are willing to consider that God has not given up on trying to get your attention. When the sun comes up tomorrow morning, it isn’t only because of the earth’s rotation, but because God is love, and behind all the wonderful beauty of scientific study of this world, he wants us to discover the God who made it.”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“Richard Middleton point this out, saying that everyone has a worldview whether they realize it or not, and that it is the way we answer four basic questions: (1) Who am I? Or, what are the nature, task and purposes of human beings? (2) Where am I? Or, what is the nature of the world and universe I live in? (3) What’s wrong? Or, what is the basic problem or obstacle that keeps me from attaining fulfillment? In other words, how do I understand evil? And (4) What is the remedy? Or, how is it possible to overcome this hindrance to my fulfillment? In other words, how do I find salvation?”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“Don’t walk away at the first sign of a contradiction or a problem. Sometimes scientific study needs to play catch-up to the Bible.”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“If you’re going to make up stories about miracles and events that you are claiming really happened, you have to wait until all the eyewitnesses are dead and gone.”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“All of the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with the overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him. A. W. TOZER, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“Our faith doesn’t magically make our assumptions about Jesus and the Bible true. Faith can’t turn a falsehood into truth. Rightly understood, it’s not a blind belief in the unbelievable; it’s a rational belief based on a preponderance of evidence.”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: “Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.”40 The problem being, of course, that Darwin’s theory itself was the conviction of man’s mind, and thus by his own logic, he couldn’t trust it.”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“How often have we turned on the television and heard the host say, “Tonight we will be talking about faith versus science. Our first guest is a former University of Oxford professor, evolutionary biologist, and bestselling author. He believes that science, not faith, holds the answers to all questions. On the other side of the aisle we have Joe Smith, who will speak for the legitimacy of faith and Christianity. Joe homeschools his kids, thinks Oprah is the Antichrist, and lives in a swamp.”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“Faith is like a mental illness,” Richard Dawkins has said, “a great cop out, the excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.”2 Sam Harris agrees, saying, “We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common, we call them religious. Otherwise, they are likely to be called mad, delusional, or psychotic.”3”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity

“How often have we turned on the television and heard the host say, “Tonight we will be talking about faith versus science. Our first guest is a former University of Oxford professor, evolutionary biologist, and bestselling author. He believes that science, not faith, holds the answers to all questions. On the other side of the aisle we have Joe Smith, who will speak for the legitimacy of faith and Christianity. Joe homeschools his kids, thinks Oprah is the Antichrist,”
― Mark Clark, The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity