QUOTES

There's a fine line, though, between being someone who questions and being someone who refuses to believe any answers-a true skeptic. In fact, I don't think many skeptics actually question anything. They may phrase their challenges as questions, but their heart is set on rejection and disproving, not asking. To truly question something is to query it and to ask about it for the sake of greater and deeper understanding. This may lead to evidence that disproves or to propositions worthy of rejecting, but the heart behind it is to learn, to know. And in this sense, we ought to question everything. And I do mean everything… — Barnabas Piper (from, The unskeptical questioner)

"If anyone ever tells you there is no such thing as truth, they are asking you not to believe them…"

“Nothing can come into being from that which is not” - Demokritos, Greek Philosopher

Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)- Rene Descartes

“Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.”- (Avicenna, Great Muslim Philosopher)

Nothing is that which rocks dream about. - Aristotle

"But allow me to tell you that I never asserted so absurd a Proposition as that anything might arise without cause...An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man whose judgment is not corrupted, instead of being improved..., by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.” - David Hume

"All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.”- Jonathan Edwards

“Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably

because it smacks of divine intervention.” – Stephen Hawking

“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.” – C. S. Lewis

“Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life...life has no higher purpose than

to perpetuate the survival of DNA...life has no design, no purpose, no evil and no good,

nothing but blind pitiless indifference.”- Richard Dawkins

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, comfort ourselves?”- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Some people say there is a God out there. but in my travels around the earth all day long, I looked around and didn't see Him. "- Russian astronaut Gherman Titoy

"According to the Big Bang Theory, the whole matter of the universe began to exist at a particular time in the remote past. A proponent of such a theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing."- Atheist Anthony Kenny

"A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.” - Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle

“The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven…The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book..”

--Dan Brown in The DaVinci Code

“We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after about A.D. 80. In my opinion, every book of the New Testament was written by a baptized Jew between the 40‟s and the 80‟s of the first century (very probably sometime between about A..D. 50 and 75)” -William F. Albright

"It would be impossible...to argue that the Bible is a unified whole, inerrant in all its parts, inspired by God in every way. It can't be that. There are too many divergences, discrepancies, contradictions; too many alternative ways of looking at the same issue, alternatives that often are at odds with one another. The Bible is not a unity, it is a massive plurality. God did not write the Bible, people did."- Bart Ehrman

“The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible , and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established.” -Sir Frederic G. Kenyon

"To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no document of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.” - John Warwick Montgomery

“Indeed so extensive are these citations [from early church fathers] that if all other sources for our knowledge of the text of the New Testament were destroyed, they would be sufficient alone for the reconstruction of practically the entire New Testament.”- Bruce Metzger

“In extraordinary ways, modern archeology has affirmed the historical core of the Old and New Testaments--corroborating key portions of the stories of Israel’s patriarchs, the Exodus, the Davidic monarchy, the life and times of Jesus.” - Jeffrey Shelter

“The New Testament as it exists today is essentially a product of fourth century editors and writers— custodians of orthodoxy,“adherents of the message,” with vested interests to protect.” –Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

"I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian."- Christopher Hitchens (Atheist)