Saturday, August 4, 2007

Fish out of water!


"I feel that the whole of history and civilization would be unintelligible to me if it were not for my belief in God. So true is this, that I propose to argue that unless God is back of everything, you cannot find meaning in anything. I cannot even argue for belief in Him, without already having taken Him for granted. And similarly I contend that you cannot argue against belief in Him unless you also first take Him for granted. Arguing about God’s existence, I hold, is like arguing about air. You may affirm that air exists, and I that it does not. But as we debate the point, we are both breathing air all the time" (Cornelius Van Til, Why I Believe in God, Van Til, C., & Sigward, E. H. 1997. The works of Cornelius Van Til, 1895-1987 [electronic ed.]. Labels Army Co.: New York).

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