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Consequences of Ideas QUOTES

1 " We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

2 " When Adolf Hitler came to power, the Nazis were not content to find a “final solution” for Jews and Gypsies. They also sought to eliminate intellectuals whose ideas were at odds with the “values” of the Third Reich. My friend was removed from his position. When he spoke out against the Nazis, his wife and all but one of his children were arrested and executed. He escaped from Germany with his young daughter. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

3 " For Plato, knowledge that is restricted to the material world is at best mere opinion and at worst ignorance. The task of education is to lead people out of darkness into light, out of the cave and its shadows and into the noonday sun. The Latin term educare describes this process. Its root meaning is “to lead out of,” as the root ducere means “to lead.” We "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

4 " The inauthentic person seeks safety in normality. He denies his uniqueness by becoming “average.” In "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

5 " The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine's epistemology, or theory of knowledge.

The metaphor of light is instructive. In our present earthly state we are equipped with the faculty of sight. We have eyes, optic nerves, and so forth- all the equipment needed for sight. But a man with the keenest eyesight can see nothing if he is locked in a totally dark room. So just as an external source of light is needed for seeing, so an external revelation from God is needed for knowing.

When Augustine speaks of revelation, he is not speaking of Biblical revelation alone. He is also concerned with "general" or "natural" revelation. Not only are the truths in Scripture dependent on God's revelation, but all truth, including scientific truth, is dependent on divine revelation. This is why Augustine encouraged students to learn as much as possible about as many things as possible. For him, all truth is God's truth, and when one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

6 " Foundational thinking cares about the difference between truth and falsehood because it cares about good and evil. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

7 " The ancient maxim still applies: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” To any serious thinker, and especially to the professing Christian, an unexamined life is not an option. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

8 " Philosophy was born in the ancient quest for ultimate reality, the reality that transcends the proximate and commonplace and that defines and explains the data of everyday experience. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

9 " For Parmenides, if anything exists in an absolute way, it cannot change (“ Whatever is, is.”). It cannot be and not be at the same time and in the same way. If it is becoming, it cannot be being. If it is not being, it is nothing. It must be absolutely or not at all. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

10 " This raises the ultimate philosophical question: Why is there something rather than nothing? "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

11 " A life marked by risk includes real fear and trembling, dread and anxiety. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

12 " Three burdens dominated the thinking of the original philosophers: first, a quest for “monarchy”; second, a quest for unity in the midst of diversity; and third, a quest for cosmos over chaos. Though these quests may be distinguished at one level, at a different level all three involve the search for a metaphysical answer to the physical world. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

13 " the “logic” of the facts—that is, as it sought to deduce laws or universals from the raw data of the particulars. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

14 " science. If reality is ultimately chaotic, science itself becomes a manifest impossibility. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas

15 " Chaos is the archenemy of science. If reality is ultimately chaotic, science itself becomes a manifest impossibility. "

― R.C. Sproul , Consequences of Ideas