Worship Quotables

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• The Doctrine of Sin Gives Hope!
  The doctrine of sin . . . means that not everything that exists in the present ought to be as it now is. . . . Both good and evil are present after Genesis 3, but they are present asymmetrically. Evil is not original, nor will it linger forever. Genesis 3 tells us that evil […]
• Fault Line
  The history of Western thought and culture is strewn with a catalog of attempts to draw a fault line between good and evil: either between different parts of creation, between different human faculties, or between different social groups. . . . But Christianity frames matters altogether differently. . . . The fault line runs down […]
• Pride
  it is hard to underestimate the extent to which many in our society today fail to consider what the Bible has to say about God on its own terms because that would require admitting that our own autonomous reason may not be the most reliable truth-discerning tool in the universe. —Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How […]
• Contingent
  A self-made man . . . worships his “creator.” . . . To assert in defiance of [God’s] rightful claim on my life that I am “the master of my fate,” is an irony aptly captured in the scene Van Til reports observing in a railway carriage: “I saw a little girl one day on […]