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"There can be no appeasement between those who presuppose in all their thought the sovereign God and those who presuppose in all their thought the would-be sovereign man. There can be no other point of contact between them than that of head-on collision." - Cornelius Van Til, The Intellectual Challenge of the Gospel, p. 19. "I have not found the non-Christian religions to be philosophically defensible, each of them being internally incoherent or undermining human reason and experience." - Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen, The Great Debate: Does God Exist? Dr. Greg Bahnsen versus Dr. Gordon Stein At the University of California, Irvine, 1985.

"The transcendental argument says the proof of the Christian God is that without God one cannot prove anything. As one illustration of that, although I want to get into more than that in the second speech, I have referred to the laws of logic. An atheist universe cannot account for the laws of logic... We must ask whether the atheist has a rational basis for his claims. Atheists love to talk about laws of science and laws of logic. They speak as though there are certain moral absolutes from which Christians were just a few minutes ago being indicted because they didn't live up to them. But who is the atheist to tell us about laws? In a materialist universe there are no laws, much less laws of morality that anybody has to live up to." - Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen, The Great Debate: Does God Exist? Dr. Greg Bahnsen versus Dr. Gordon Stein At the University of California, Irvine, 1985.

"Arguments over conflicting presuppositions between world views, therefore, must be resolved somewhat differently, and yet still rationally, from conflicts over factual existence claims within a world view or system of thought. When we go to look at the different world views that atheists and theists have, I suggest we can prove the existence of God from the impossibility of the contrary. The transcendental proof for God's existence is that without Him it is impossible to prove anything. The atheist world view is irrational and cannot consistently provide the preconditions of intelligible experience, science, logic, or morality. The atheist world view cannot allow for laws of logic, the uniformity of nature, the ability for the mind to understand the world, and moral absolutes." - Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen, The Great Debate: Does God Exist? Dr. Greg Bahnsen versus Dr. Gordon Stein At the University of California, Irvine, 1985.

"The antithesis between followers of God and followers of Satan is sovereignly inflicted as God's judicial curse. This enmity is not only social but also intellectual in nature, and, therefore, to ignore it in our apologetic is to compromise the gospel. Without the ingredient of antithesis, Christianity is not simply anemic, it has altogether forfeited its challenge to all other worldviews... 'the antithesis' revealed in the Bible must be pressed with unbelievers in order to guard Christianity's uniqueness, exclusivity, and indispensability... Christianity must not be presented to men as just a general axiom. It is rather an historical particular. Christianity deals with a specific individual, the Christ of history who did particular things at a particular time. It is not just a philosophy understood in the idealist sense. John 14:6 tells us that there is no other way to God. Acts 4:12 tells us that there is no other name under Heaven whereby we must be saved. In Toward a Reformed Apologetic Van Til says: 'Romanism and Arminianism have, to some extent, adjusted the gospel of the sovereign grace of God, so as to make it please sinful man in his would-be independence of God. Romanism and Arminianism have a defective theology. Accordingly, they also adjust their method of reasoning with men so as to make it please sinful men. They also have a defective apologetic. They tell the natural men that he has the right idea about himself, the world and God so far as it goes, but that he needs some additional information about these subjects.' What Van Til is getting at is that our task is not to show that Christianity does justice to rationality and to the facts. Van Til says that Christianity alone saves rationality and the facts. It is not simply better than the non-Christian view, it is the only option available to a rational man... Van Til says we are children of the King. To us, not to the world, do all things belong. It is only if we demand of men complete submission to the living Christ of the Scriptures in every area of their lives that we have presented to them the claims of the Lord Christ without compromise. In short, we must not synthesize Christ's words with unbelieving philosophies, but rather present Him antithetically in apologetics. Only then do we do so without compromise." - Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen, At War With the Word: The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis.

"He (Christ) came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness." - Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith. "

Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality." - Cornelius Van Til.

"The Reformed apologist throws down the gauntlet and challenges his opponent to a duel-to-the-death." - Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith.