This was a small book but very hard to plow through. Francis Schaeffer has been called the missionary to the intellectual, and I guess that's why most of it was over my head. I was able to wrap my mind around a couple of concepts though. The first was that the philosophies of the secular humanists and materialists lead to despair. After all, what truth can there be to concepts that were arrived at by minds that evolved over eons of random interactions by molecules and enzymes? If the universe is chaotic and there is no first cause or creative being then all our paradigms, whether religious or secular, have no meaning. Another statement made in the book was that God is there, and He is not silent. He is revealed in nature, in the fact that Man is a creature that communicates verbally with other men and God has communicated with Man through the Judeo-Christian scriptures. Now, any reader who has read this book and has the intellect to understand all the concepts, please leave a comment and enlighten the rest of us in layman terms.
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