Why the Bible Must Be True, Schaeffer on Faith and Questions, and a Question About God and Evil

An Idea from Me

If the Bible is not true, we don’t have a ground for investigating the world in any way, shape or form. Logic goes out the window. Morality goes out the window. And the preconditions of science go out the window. There is no inductive reasoning. There is no uniformity in nature.  All the preconditions of intelligibility go out the window, if the Bible is not true.

Learn more: “Creation Showdown: Young-Earth vs. Old-Earth and Evolutionary.”

A Quote from Somebody Else

“We must be careful not to fall into “Evangelical Kierkegaardianism.” One of the most subtle things in this—and one that can come easily, without people ever realizing what is happening—is the attitude of saying, ‘Don’t ask questions, just believe.’ 

“You see, as soon as you say, ‘Don’t ask questions, just believe,’ in reality we are upstairs. We are separating the Christian faith from history. We’re separating it from that which is open to discussion. And if we’re not careful, what we do is to make it into another kind of a trip: ‘You can have an Eastern Religious trip, or you can have this kind of a trip,’ but they’re both trips. 

“So you’ve got to be awfully careful, especially among the Evangelicals who are highly emotionally orientated. This is a very real danger, making people feel that it’s unspiritual to ask the questions.”

—Francis A. Schaeffer, “Two Contents, Two Realities” (lecture featured at L’Abri Ideas Library). 

Something to Think About

“The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster” (Proverbs 16:4). Is God ultimately responsible for evil?

Reply in the next seven days, and I will write you back. 

By the way, we are hosting a men’s meetup tonight to talk about the theology and philosophy of Evil. If you will be in the Aurora, Illinois area, and you are a man, you are invited to join us. Go here for the details.