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Reason is a crucial and irreplaceable way to help us weigh competing beliefs. But it is impossible to claim that we should believe only what is proven and that therefore, since religion can’t be proven, we shouldn’t embrace it. All of us have things we believe—including things we would sacrifice and even die for—that cannot be proven. We believe
... See moreTimothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
In what follows, I will identify a range of factual data that find their best explanation by far, if there is a single, personal God.
J.P. Moreland • Love Your God With All Your Mind
“God,” to Thomas, is merely a label we place at the spot where we wonder, “Why is there something rather than nothing? What does it all mean? Why anything rather than nothing?” Aquinas knew he could not provide a fully satisfying answer. “God” is the label Christians use for the human question of “meaning.” As McCabe concludes, “We do not and
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Propositions declaring this or that to be good are what Moore called ‘intuitions’; they are incapable of proof or disproof and indeed no evidence or reasoning whatever can be adduced in their favor or disfavor.
Alasdair MacIntyre • After Virtue
Theology is second-order reflection on first-order language about God and faith. Theology is not faith, nor does it require faith. It may sometimes be, in that traditional phrase, “faith seeking understanding” (fides quaerens intellectum). But for me theology is simply showing how statements of faith and belief can be seen as rational, sensible,
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
It basically goes like this: Is something good because God wills it? Or does God will something because it is good? If you say that something is good because God wills it, then what is good becomes arbitrary. God could have willed that hatred is good, and then we would have been morally obligated to hate one another. That seems crazy. Some moral
... See moreWilliam Lane Craig • On Guard
Both ontology (the existence of things) and axiology (the goodness of things) are equally and inseparably dependent on the divine word.
Christopher Watkin • Biblical Critical Theory
There are certain perennial problems to which all interesting philosophy returns again and again; but there are no such things as logical discoveries that consign any of the older answers to obsolescence.