Sublime

The textual reliability of the New Testament is overwhelming! A key factor in determining whether Christianity is true is evaluating whether the biblical manuscripts are an accurate representation of the original texts.

Johannes Agricola

there are religious reasons why modern science emerged in Christian Europe and not in such sophisticated societies as China, ancient Greece, and Islamic nations.30 For example, when the cosmos is viewed as “an emanation of the absolute spirit,” as in some other religions, modern science is unable to get off the ground.31 Among other factors, it was

technology, religion,

They investigate the past and relate the struggles of the apostles and the Fathers to our present struggles. Thus they become defenders of the faith, showing its reasonableness, its “fittingness” for the oppressed community now.

in fact the great scientific achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were produced by a group of scholars notable for their piety, who were based in Christian universities, and whose brilliant achievements were carefully built upon an invaluable legacy of centuries of brilliant Scholastic scholarship.

The church has grown anti-intellectual and sensate, out of touch with the relevancy of Jesus and the gospel to contemporary life. Marred by scandal, infighting, and a lack of conviction, the church’s prophetic voice, once resounding with power on issues of slavery and human rights, is now but a whimper. The gospel no longer receives a fair hearing

Luther was an expert in the law of God, and every day he was in terror as he looked in the mirror of the law and examined his life against God’s righteousness. We are not in terror, because we have blocked out the view of God’s righteousness. We judge ourselves on a curve, measuring ourselves against others. We never judge ourselves according to th