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For Sean, learning to believe the best in others was especially formative, given that his dad is one of the foremost public defenders of Christian truth in recent memory. But Josh McDowell both taught and modeled that even if we disagree with someone, we should still give that person the benefit of the doubt.
Sean McDowell • Same-Sex Marriage (Thoughtful Response): A Thoughtful Approach to God's Design for Marriage
Many Christians who’ve stopped really believing now insist that they revere the Bible as a source of ethical advice. The standard atheist reply is given by Sam Harris: “You and I both know that it would take us five minutes to produce a book that offers a more coherent and compassionate morality than the Bible does.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
To put it another way, unless our apologetic proclamation begins from revelation, we have conceded the game to modernity.
James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
His basic hermeneutic for understanding the Bible was to ask the question of every passage: Is this law, or is this gospel?