Nothing short of the Christ of the Scriptures, presented in historic Reformed theology, can challenge men to forsake their sin and establish them in truth and life - Van Til
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Cornelius Van Til The Scriptures nowhere appeal to the unregenerated reason as to a qualified judge. On the contrary, Scripture says over and over that the unregenerate reason is entirely unqualified to judge.
Cornelius Van Til [T]hat man must know himself in relation to his environment ... is implied in the very bedrock of Christian-theism. This may be seen by again referring to our idea of God and of God’s relation to the created universe. Man exists by virtue of God’s existence. Man’s environment precedes man. God is man’s ultimate environment and this environment is completely interpretative of man who is to know himself.
Cornelius Van Til As human beings we must know or interpret the facts after we look at the facts, after they are there and perhaps after they have operated for some time. In the case of God, on the other hand, God’s knowledge of the facts comes first. God knows or interprets the facts before they are facts. It is God’s plan or his comprehensive interpretation of the facts that makes the facts what they are.
Abraham Paniagua Thank you God for Van Til and Bahnsen...great apologists and incredible knowledge!
Cornelius Van Til The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. ~ Proverbs 1:7
Tyler Dalton McNabb i praise God so dearly for Cornelius Van Til!
Cornelius Van Til Scripture teaches us to speak and preach to, as well as to reason with blind men, because God, in whose name we speak and reason, can cause the blind to see.
Cornelius Van Til If by the regenerating electing grace of God we have died with Christ to our sins and risen with him unto righteousness, then we shall seek to subdue all things unto him and God shall be all and in all. Having put on the whole armor of God, we shall destroy speculation and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God. As covenant keepers, we will make every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
Cornelius Van Til For Chinese speaker only. Really sorry about it.
This video is made in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin. Used with permission of Gospel Culture Center, KL, Malaysia. Traditional Chinese script used throughout.
Length:15:26
Cornelius Van Til As Christians ... we believe that human knowledge of the world and of God is (a) not exhaustive and yet (b) true. We are created in God’s image, and therefore our knowledge cannot be exhaustive; we are created in God’s image, and therefore our knowledge is true.
Cornelius Van Til ...[T]he question is not whether the non-Christian can weigh, measure, or do a thousand other things. No one denies that he can. But the question is whether on his principle the non-Christian can account for his own or any knowledge.
Cornelius Van Til Whatever may happen, whatever sin may bring about, whatever havoc it may occasion, it cannot destroy man’s knowledge of God and his sense of responsibility to God. Sin would not be sin except for this ineradicable knowledge of God. Even sin as a process of ever-increasing alienation from God presupposes for its background this knowledge of God. This knowledge is that which all men have in common.
Cornelius Van Til The purpose of a Christian school which underlies and directs all other purposes is to teach, to inculcate into the hearts and minds of its pupils that “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.”
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