{"quotes":[{"text":"Man's delight in the Lord is the absolute peak of human triumph. He praises God when full of joy, and when not, he praises God to become full of joy. For to know and to live as though God is worthy of all praise, in all one's circumstances, whether seemingly good or seemingly bad, is the primary definition of joy and the richest triumph for man under God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","awe","church","delight","glorification","glorification-of-god","glorifying-god","glory","god","greatness","happiness","holiness","honor","joy","lord","love","man","music","peace","praise","prayer","respect","reverence","rich","singing","strength","triumph","trust","victory","worship","worthiness"],"id":649,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["aim","apologetics","discernment","enemy","faith","god","good-judgment","judgment","lies","marksmanship"],"id":1118,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you've been given eternal life. 'Whom or what shall you fear?' To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anxiety","apologetics","bravery","christ","christ-jesus","christian","christianity","courage","darkness","death","defensive","doubt","elephant","encouragement","eternal-life","evil","faith","faith-in-god","fear","fearlessness","funny","funny-but-true","god","goodness","humor","inspirational","irrational-fear","jesus","jesus-christ","life","light","love","martyr","motivational","mouse","negativity","obedience","offended","optimism","pessimism","positivity","power","pray","strength","trust","trust-in-god","universe","world","worry"],"id":4189,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"For a great many skeptics are put to waste. But this is meant in the sense that which they vainly focus their energy on ridiculing a certain tiny denomination of Biblical fundamentalism, a denomination seated just one chair away from unbelief; they, the skeptics, cannot believe because they are the most literal of fundamentalists: of those that which must interpret Scripture only by means of a sort of obsolete and dead script of intellectual incompetence. By all means, this is supposed to happen - Scripture states of itself that all thought and interpretation is folly without the Holy Spirit - but on the other hand, it seems, ironically, that if one thinks that the Bible is, in its true essence, an outdated text, he doesn't know much about the world around him nor those who live in it. Either that, or he doesn't know much about what it says in relation to the world around him nor to those who live in it. It's as though he, too, is dead to the world and it to him. He has no spirit: he can only possibly understand Scripture as deceased rather than the modern world's very living narrative.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","atheism","bible","christianity","dead","denominations","etymology","fundamentalism","god","hermeneutics","holy-spirit","ignorance","interpretation","knowledge","living","scripture","skepticism","theism","theology","wisdom","world"],"id":4983,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based beliefs. Emotions are changing while truth is absolute. They don't believe simply because it sounds good, or deep, beautiful, happy, fun, cool, simple, or intelligent to them; but because it's true.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absolute","apologetics","belief","emotion","faith","freedom","god","heart","mind","truth"],"id":13437,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","arguing","argumentation","belief","bickering","christian","christianity","conflict","criticism","debating","denominations","disagreement","exaggeration","gospel","hypocrisy","judgment","legalism","lukewarm","opposition","passion","prosperity","religion","spirituality"],"id":19153,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Some words we use all the time are difficult to define when we actually have to think about them. We use the word “evil” all the time but when asked to define what we are talking about, it can be quite difficult. Think about evil as you would think of counterfeit currency. A counterfeit is the corruption of something real. You can have real currency without the existence of any counterfeits. You cannot, however, have counterfeits without the real thing existing first. Evil is dependent on the existence of goodness but goodness is not dependent on evil. Goodness was there first. It is an absolute. Evil must always be thought of in relationship with absolute goodness.","author":"Jon Morrison","tags":["apologetics","definition-of-evil","evil","problem-of-evil","problem-of-pain"],"id":23872,"author_id":"Jon+Morrison"},{"text":"Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","bible","ignorance","secular","skepticism"],"id":25948,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Our willingness to embrace the realities of our neighbor's difficulty is what empowers our witness and makes our testimony of Christ effective and hearable.","author":"Christopher W. Brooks","tags":["apologetics","christianity"],"id":27922,"author_id":"Christopher+W.+Brooks"},{"text":"Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis fails to become a Christian because of a lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with god.","author":"William Lane Craig","tags":["apologetics","aronra","atheism","atheist","bill","craig","david","davidjohnwellman","debate","dogma","dumbfuck","faith","idiot","lane","liar","reasonable","religion","smalley","theism","theist","william"],"id":30632,"author_id":"William+Lane+Craig"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":239,"pages":24,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}