Defending Your Faith Quotes

“The Bible never tells us to take a leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there’s somebody out there.The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light.That is not a blind leap.The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“Christianity is based on far more than naked human reason but by no means upon less.Though divine revelation carries us beyond the limits of rational speculation, it does not sink below the bar of rational intelligibility.”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“If truth is relative, then the truth of God is not truth at all but a lie, for the Word of God contends that there is a Truth that transcends the universe, a Truth that is the norm and fountain of all truth.”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“Para Pablo, el problema del hombre con la existencia de Dios no es un problema intelectual. Es un problema moral.”
― R.C. Sproul, Como defender su fe (Una Introducción a La Apologetica) (Spanish Edition)

“argument.I take the position that the best starting point for apologetics is with the existence of God.If we can establish the existence of God first, then all the other issues of apologetics become easier to defend.Others believe that it is better to establish the authority of the Bible first.If the authority of the Bible is established, it clearly affirms the existence of God, the reality of creation, the deity of Christ, and so forth. Other apologists prefer to argue from history.They first try to prove the deity of Christ and then reason back from Jesus to the existence of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“Apologetics, for this reason, is not merely about winning an argument.It is about winning souls.The”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“non-Christian thinking, according to Scripture, is “folly” (Ps.14:1; 1 Cor.1:18–2:16; 3:18-23).”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“Apologetics, however, does not just entail defense.It also involves offense, the positive task of constructing a case for Christianity that shows itself to be applicable to every culture, as well as being the only (and therefore the best) alternative to the world’s philosophical and theological systems of thought.In other words, apologetics can be used to show that Christianity is true and that all non-Christian worldviews are false.The”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction

“Defending the faith to the best of our ability is not a luxury or an indulgence in intellectual vanity.It is the task given to each one of us as we bear witness to our faith before the world.I”
― R.C. Sproul, Defending Your Faith: An Introduction