Theological Basis Quotes

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

We are, because God is.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

The approach we try to take here [Morris's Institute for Creation Research] is to assume that the word of God is the word of God and that God is able to say what He means and means what He says, and that's in the Bible and that is our basis. And then we interpret the scientific data within that framework.

The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

For right is right, since God is God.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.