Apr 25, 2022

PRACTICING TRUTH:

"...in an age of synthesis, men will not take our protestations of truth seriously unless they see by our actions that we practice truth and antithesis in the unity we try to establish, and in our activities."

~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There Appendix C. The Practice of Truth

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Feb 11, 2022

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WHAT IS KILLING MANKIND? ARE YOU LISTENING?:

"There are many means for killing men, as men, today. They all operate in the same direction: no truth, no morality. You do not have to go to art galleries or listen to the more sophisticated music to be influenced by their message. The common media of cinema and television will do it effectively for you."

~ Schaeffer, A. Francis, The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: Volume One, A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture, Westchester, IL, Crossway Books. 40 (Book: The God Who is There)

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Jan 26, 2022

TRUE TRUTH APOLOGETICS:

"Christian apologetics must be able to show intellectually that Christianity speaks of true truth; but it must also exhibit that it is not just a theory. This is needed for the defense of the flock of Christ, and also in the positive sense of reaching out to those who are honestly asking questions."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Mar 13, 2020

FACING THE DARK PATH:

"It is dark out there. I think one reason I am able to talk to this kind of twentieth-century person is because I understand something of just how dark it can be. Men must know that with integrity we have faced the reality of the dark path they are treading."

~ Schaeffer, A. Francis, The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: Volume One, A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture, Westchester, IL, Crossway Books. 145 (Book: The God Who is There)

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Mar 07, 2020

LEARN WHAT IS KILLING MANKIND:

"There are many means for killing men, as men, today. They all operate in the same direction: no truth, no morality. You do not have to go to art galleries or listen to the more sophisticated music to be influenced by their message. The common media of cinema and television will do it effectively for you."

~ Schaeffer, A. Francis, The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: Volume One, A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture, Westchester, IL, Crossway Books. 40 (Book: The God Who is There)

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Mar 06, 2020

HOW TO TREAT NON-CHRISTIANS:

"When we have the opportunity to talk to the non-Christian, what (if not the formula mentality) should be the dominant consideration? I think this should be love. I think these things turn on love and compassion to people not as objects to evangelize, but as people who deserve all the love and consideration we can give them, because they are our kind and made in the image of God. They are valuable, so we should meet them in love and compassion. Thus, we meet the person where he or she is."

~ Schaeffer, A. Francis, The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: Volume One, A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture, Westchester, IL, Crossway Books. 177 (Book: The God Who is There)

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Feb 26, 2020

MONOLITHIC CULTURE:

"It would be false to say that there is a totally uniform culture. This is not so. And yet, as we study the art and literature of the past, and those things which help us to understand a culture, we find that there tends to be a drift towards a monolithic and uniform whole."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Dec 03, 2019

THE DIALECTICAL MILLSTREAM:

"To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in doing so, is to push the next generation into the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Aug 30, 2019

TRUTH APOLOGETICS:

"Christian apologetics must be able to show intellectually that Christianity speaks of true truth; but it must also exhibit that it is not just a theory. This is needed for the defense of the flock of Christ, and also in the positive sense of reaching out to those who are honestly asking questions."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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May 11, 2019

WHEN THE ABNORMAL WORLD IS HEALED:

"...there will be a time in the future when the marks of the abnormality, in ourselves and in nature, will be completely healed upon the basis of the work of Christ... There will be a time in the future when the redemption of Christ will cure these things perfectly"

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Letters of Francis Schaeffer

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May 10, 2019

DEPRESSION, THE FALL AND NEW STARTS:

"We all go through times of ups and downs physically and psychologically,... each of us goes through these times in some degree since we all are abnormal from the affects of the Fall... We also have the promise that as we bring our moment by moment sins under the finished work of Christ, these sins are gone, and we can have a quiet conscience concerning them. Thus as Christians, we have endless new starts."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Letters of Francis Schaeffer

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May 09, 2019

THE ABNORMAL WORLD:

"We do live in a fallen world--one that is abnormal from that which God has made. Each of us has certain results of this abnormality; each of us has a different mix concerning the way the results of living in this abnormal world affect us. With some it is more physical, with some it is more psychological, with some it is more intellectual, with some it is more moral. Each of us has some of these, but with each of us certain aspects of the abnormality have a stronger effect upon us than others."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Letters of Francis Schaeffer

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May 08, 2019

BARE INTELLECTUALISM:

"If our Christianity is only a bare intellectual system, then again when the winds of adversity come, the certainty of our faith will be blown away. In other words, there must be a sufficient intellectual basis of truth (since Christianity deals with truth), and yet it must not stop only with bare intellectualism."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Apr 19, 2019

PRACTICING TRUTH:

"...in an age of synthesis, men will not take our protestations of truth seriously unless they see by our actions that we practice truth and antithesis in the unity we try to establish, and in our activities."

~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There Appendix C. The Practice of Truth

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Dec 04, 2018

THE DIALECTICAL MILLSTREAM:

"To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in doing so, is to push the next generation into the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Dec 03, 2018

THE DIALECTICAL MILLSTREAM:

"To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in doing so, is to push the next generation into the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Oct 05, 2018

INTO THE BOTTOMLESS:

"On the basis of modern man's methodology, whether expressed in philosophy, art, literature or theology, there can be no other ending than this--man tumbling into the bottomless."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Oct 03, 2018

FAR FROM MERE EXPERIENCE:

"It is very important to realize, over against modern concepts of 'spiritual experience,' that the biblically based experience rests firmly on truth. It is not only an emotional experience, nor is it content-less.

" ~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Oct 01, 2018

THE TALENT TRAGEDY:

"The tragedy is not only that these talented men [Artist: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Picasso, & Mondrian] have reached the point of despair, but that so many who look on and admire do not understand. They are influenced by the concepts, and yet they never analyzed what it all means."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Sep 02, 2018

TRUTH EXPERIENCE:

"It is very important to realize, over against modern concepts of 'spiritual experience,' that the biblically based experience rests firmly on truth. It is not only an emotional experience, nor is it content-less."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Sep 01, 2018

SAME QUESTIONS:

"I have worked with shipyard workers, mill workers, all kinds of people (as well as, when I was younger, personally working on farms, a huckster wagon, in factories, and so on), and I am convinced that these people often have the same questions as the intellectual; the only thing is that they do not articulate them, or if they do articulate them it is not in the same terminology. I know these people, and I am convinced that the things we are talking about can be talked about to almost anyone--all one has to do is to shift gears in language. Incidentally, that too is love."

~ Francis Schaeffer, The Question of Apologetics, Appendx A to The God Who Is There

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Jul 22, 2018

BEHIND HOMOSEXUALITY:

"Some forms of homosexuality today are of a similar nature, in that they are not just homosexuality but a philosophic expression. One must have understanding for the real homophile's problem. But much modern homosexuality is an expression of the current denial of antithesis. It has led in this case to an obliteration of the distinction between man and woman. So the male and the female as complementary partners are finished. This is a form of homosexuality which is a part of the movement below the line of despair. In much of modern thinking, all antithesis and all the order of God’s creation is to be fought against -- including the male-female distinctions. The pressure toward unisex is largely rooted here. But this is not an isolated problem; it is a part of the world-spirit of the generation which surrounds us. It is imperative that Christians realize the conclusions which are being drawn as a result of the death of absolutes."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Jun 26, 2018

LOST IN WHAT HE IS:

"When a man is lost, he is lost against all that there is, including what he is."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Jun 25, 2018

TWO CONSISTENCIES:

"Every person has the pull of two consistencies, the pull towards the real world, and the pull toward the logic of his system."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Jun 23, 2018

WITH INTEGRITY:

"Men must know that with integrity we have faced the reality of the dark path they are treading."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Jun 20, 2018

THE ABSOLUTE FOR ABSOLUTES:

"The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The creation as He originally made it conformed to His character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Jun 19, 2018

NO LAW BEHIND HIM:

"There is no law behind God, because the furthest thing back is God."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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May 28, 2018

ILLOGICAL TO THE REAL WORLD:

"The more logical a man who holds a non-Christian position is to his own presuppositions, the further he is from the real world; and the nearer he is to the real world, the more illogical he is to his presuppositions."

~ Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There.

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Apr 22, 2018

TRUTH APOLOGETICS:

"Christian apologetics must be able to show intellectually that Christianity speaks of true truth; but it must also exhibit that it is not just a theory. This is needed for the defense of the flock of Christ, and also in the positive sense of reaching out to those who are honestly asking questions."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Apr 11, 2018

IT DOESN'T FIT!:

"Non-Christian presuppositions simply do not fit into what God has made, including what man is. This being so, every man is in a place of tension. Man cannot make his own universe and then live in it."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There.

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Feb 14, 2018

VALENTINE, DOES LOVE EXIST?:

"...lovers on the left bank of the Seine in Paris...fall in love and yet cry because they do not believe love exists. If I met any of these, I would put my hand gently on their shoulders and say, 'You are separated from God if you do not accept Christ as your Savior, but at this moment you understand something real about the universe. Though your system may say love does not exist, your own experience shows that it does.' They have not touched the personal God who exists, but for a fleeting moment they have touched the existence of true personality in their love."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Dec 07, 2017

ART INFLUENCED WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING:

"The tragedy is not only that these talented men [Artist: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Picasso, & Mondrian] have reached the point of despair, but that so many who look on and admire do not understand. They are influenced by the concepts, and yet they never analyzed what it all means."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Dec 03, 2017

THE DIALECTICAL MILLSTREAM:

"To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in doing so, is to push the next generation into the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Nov 17, 2017

GOD'S REALITY TAUGHT ARISTOTLE:

"Rational thought as antithesis is not rooted in Aristotle, it is rooted in reality"

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Question of Apologetics, Appendix A to The God Who is There

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Oct 30, 2017

ALL IS RELATIVISED:

"[In modern thinking,] all possible positions are relativized, and leads to the concept that truth is to be sought in synthesis rather than antithesis."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Oct 25, 2017

PRESUPPOSITION VS THE REAL WORLD:

"The more logical a man who holds a non-Christian position is to his own presuppositions, the further he is from the real world; and the nearer he is to the real world, the more illogical he is to his presuppositions."

~ Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Oct 10, 2017

THE DARK PATH:

"Men must know that with integrity we have faced the reality of the dark path they are treading."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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Oct 02, 2017

KIERKEGAARD:

"I do not think Kierkegaard would be happy, or would agree, with what has developed from his thinking in either secular or religious existentialism."

~ Dr. Francis, Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Oct 01, 2017

CONTRASTING WORLDVIEWS:

"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash." ~ Sigmund Freud OR "Though the Bible says men are lost, it does not say they are nothing. When a man says he is a machine or nothing, he makes himself less than the Bible's view of fallen man."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Sep 29, 2017

THOSE AGAINST GENDER CREATION:

"In much of modern thinking, all antithesis and all the order of God's creation is to be fought against--including the male-female distinctions. The pressure toward unisex is largely rooted here. But this is not an isolated problem; it is a part of the world-spirit of the generation which surrounds us."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

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Sep 26, 2017

THE HOMOSEXUAL ANTITHESIS:

"Some forms of homosexuality today are of a similar nature, in that they are not just homosexuality but a philosophic expression. One must have understanding for the real homophile's problem. But much modern homosexuality is an expression of the current denial of antithesis."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

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