Nancy Pearcey Quotes

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Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

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Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

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If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get."

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Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to humbleness. But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.

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Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best.

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Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, Only a God who is triune can be personal.... A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person. Therefore it has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.

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When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.

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But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

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A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.

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The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

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Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

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Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

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