Greg L. Bahnsen Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.