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Greg L. Bahnsen

Greg L. Bahnsen (September 17, 1948 – December 11, 1995) was an American Calvinist philosopher, apologist, and debater. He was a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a full-time Scholar in Residence for the Southern California Center for Christian Studies (SCCCS). He is also considered a contributor to the field of Christian apologetics, as he popularized the presuppositional method of Cornelius Van Til. He is the father of David L. Bahnsen, an American portfolio manager, author, and television commentator.

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When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.

Apologist, Argumentation, Certain, Existence, Independent, Places

Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

Beginning, Christ, Result, Scripture, Self, Wisdom

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some men’s will against the will of other men.

Against, Expression, Govern, Guidance, Men, Self

We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.

Christian, Christianity, Men, Outlook, Present, Reasonable

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

Divine, Eye, Law, Logical, Men, Totalitarianism

The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man

Advanced, Church, Conquer, Intensively, Kingdoms, Men

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

Autonomous, God, Men, Revelations, Verification, Would Be

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

Areas, Interpretation, Life, Rules, Sovereign

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

Atheist, God, Imagine, Moral, Religious, Things

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

Christian, Conclusions, Language, Use, Utterance, Way

It is important for the apologist who desires to be obedient to the Word of God in defending the faith to pay special attention to the fact that throughout Scripture, God's veracity is not defended, but accepted from the outset on His authority. Unless we have more wisdom than that contained in the revelation of God, we should take the same attitude.

Attitude, Fact, Important, Pay, Same, Special

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

Commit, Epistemology, Reject, Rejects, Revelational

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Christianity, Impossibility, Reasonable, Virtue