musings on theology, philosophy, adoption, music, and technology.

via: my friend Jim’s blog:

First, Bahnsen:

Christian ethics does not have its source in human research, evaluations, plans, or authority, but rather in the revealed Word of God.  In His sight all things are open and manifest.  His knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent of the creature, and He is most holy in all His counsels, works, and commands.  Because God is omniscient, because He has created man with his specific nature, because He sovereignly governs every event of history, God does not depend upon man’s modern research to make His law applicable or relevant to man’s every historical situation.  Being the eternal creator and sustainer of the world and unchanging in His nature, God is not threatened with obsolesce; He and His law are relevant to every moment of finite man’s existence.” (Bahnsen, Homosexuality, p. 23).

Next, Van Til:

It is not as though the Reformed apologist should not interest himself in the nature of the non-Christian’s method.  On the contrary he should make a critical analysis of it.  He should, as it were, join his ‘friend’ in the use of it.  But he should do so self-consciously with the purpose of showing that its most consistent application not merely leads away from Christian theism but in leading away from Christian theism leads to destruction of reason and science as well. - Cornelius Van Til, Christian Apologetics, (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed, 2003), 131.