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1 " It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” —J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings "
― Andreas J. Köstenberger , Truth Matters: Confident Faith in a Confusing World
2 " A willingness to live with irresolvable questions is a mark of intellectual maturity, not a matter of logical nonsense. "
3 " The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him. Proverbs 18:17 "
4 " The Bible was written with the assumption that we are the rational and spiritual beings God made us to be, giving us the created dignity of marrying our belief with reason. Christian faith is true not only because we really want to believe it but also because the truth it believes is the most plausible of all explanations. "
5 " The claim is the disciples fabricated a culturally unpopular idea (resurrection), using people who do not count as witnesses for it (women), presented to a host of unbelieving followers (doubting disciples) as the way to persuade a doubting audience. "
