“Whenever church leaders ask us to choose between the holiness of God and the love of God, we must refuse. For when the love of God becomes compromised, it is not the love of God. When the holiness of God becomes hardness and a lack of beauty, it is not the holiness of God. —Francis Schaeffer, Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History
Category: Heroes
The Apologist: If the Church Is Barren…
A Christian should put himself into the arms of His bridegroom, Christ, and let Christ produce His fruit through them. Just as a bride cannot produce natural children until she puts herself into the arms the bridegroom, so a Christian cannot produce real spiritual fruit except he put himself in the hands of Christ. —Francis Schaeffer, Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History
The Apologist: What is Still the Watershed of the Evangelical Word
Holding to a strong view of Scripture or not holding to it is the watershed of the evangelical world.
…We must say most lovingly but clearly: evangelicalism is not consistently evangelical unless there is a line drawn between those who take a full view of Scripture and those who do not.
We who bear the name evangelical need to be unitedly those who have the same view of Scripture as William Cowper had when he wrote the hymn, “The Spirit Breathes Upon the Word.” In contrast to any concept of the Bible being borrowed through cultural orientation, the second verse of that hymn reads:
A glory guilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun
It gives a light to ever age;
It gives, but borrows none.—Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict
The Apologist: Evolution a Theory with Many Unroofs
[E]ven if I were still and agnostic, as once I was, I would not accept the concept of evolution from the molecule to man in unbroken line. My rejection of this does not turn upon my being Christian, but comes rather because I think this concept is weak and certainly has not been proven (in any sense of the word proven). It is a theory with may unproofs. —Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict
The Apologist: Little Left but the -ism
It is my conviction that the crucial area of discussion for evangelicalism in the next years will be Scripture. At stake is whether evangelicalism will remain evangelical. —Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict
The Apologist: Better a Few Evangelicals than Many -icals
We must say that if evangelicals are to be evangelicals, we must not compromise our view of Scripture. There is no use in evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core—namely the Scriptures. —Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict
The Apologist: Bow Etiquette
Prior to the Fall, Adam in coming to God only had to bow once—as a creature before the Creator. But now, after the Fall of Adam, we must bow twice—as a creature before the Creator and as a sinner coming to a holy God through Jesus’ work. —Francis Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time
The Apologist: The Ultimate Separation of the Fall
We recall that numerous separations came about because of the Fall. There were alienations between God and man, man and himself, man and other men, man and nature, and nature and nature. The last separation is the separation between the Father and the Son when Jesus died on the cross. The separations that resulted from man’s Fall were brought to their climax as Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, being bruised and bearing our sins in substitution, cried aloud: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mt. 27:46). —Francis Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time
The Apologist: Proof of God’s Existence as Inescapable as Yourself
Each time one man communicates with another, whether he knows it or not, even if he is the greatest blasphemer that ever lived or the atheist swearing at God, even when he swears, even when he says, “There is no God”—he bears testimony to what God is. God has left himself a witness that cannot be removed. —Francis Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time
The Apologist: There Are Only a Few Possible Answers and Only One Intelligent Answer
Man is shut up to relatively few answers. I think we often fail to understand that the deeper we go into study at this point, the simpler the alternatives become. In almost any profound question, the number of final possibilities is very few indeed. Here there are four: (1) Once there was absolutely nothing and now there is something, (2) Everything began with an impersonal something, (3) Everything began with a personal something, and (4) There is and always has been a dualism. —Francis Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time
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