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[[File:R. C. Sproul.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[R.C. Sproul]] is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries.]]

[[File:R. C. Sproul.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[R.C. Sproul]] is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries.]]

*[https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/faith-and-reason-article/ Faith and Reason, by Keith Mathison (ligonier.org)] - [[R.C. Sproul|Ligonier Ministries]].<br>Keith Mathison argues that the vast majority of Christians throughout history have not rejected the right use of reason, stemming from their attempt to be faithful to the teaching of Scripture, which provides reasons to believe. He points out that John wrote his entire Gospel to provide reasons to believe that Jesus is the Christ (John 20:30–31); that John, Peter, and Paul appeal to evidence for the claims they make (1 Cor. 15:5–6; 2 Peter 1:16; 1 John 1:1–4); the fact that all human beings believe certain things based on the [[testimony]] of others; and that Christians believe what they believe based on the testimony of the Apostles. He maintains that such faith is a gift, but it is not divorced from reason.

*[https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/faith-and-reason-article/ Faith and Reason, by Keith Mathison (ligonier.org)] - [[R.C. Sproul|Ligonier Ministries]].<br>Keith Mathison argues that the vast majority of Christians throughout history have not rejected the right use of reason, stemming from their attempt to be faithful to the teaching of Scripture, which provides reasons to believe. He points out that John wrote his entire Gospel to provide reasons to believe that Jesus is the Christ (John 20:30–31); that John, Peter, and Paul appeal to evidence for the claims they make (1 Cor. 15:5–6; 2 Peter 1:16; 1 John 1:1–4); the fact that all human beings believe certain things based on the [[testimony]] of others; and that Christians believe what they believe based on the testimony of the Apostles. He maintains that such faith is a gift, but it is not divorced from reason.

*[https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/faith-and-reason Faith and Reason, Resource by John Piper. Topic: Life of the Mind, Ligonier National Conference - Orlando, Florida (desiringgod.org)] <br>John Piper's theme in this paper is faith and reason, beginning with reflections on reason and then on faith and then on the relationship between the two in the awakening of saving faith. He argues that even though our natural minds are depraved and darkened and foolish, nevertheless, the New Testament demands that we use them in coming to faith, and leading people to faith, and in the process of Christian growth and obedience. There is no way to awaken faith or strengthen faith that evades right thinking. John Piper passionately maintains that what should burden Christians on this issue is not only how to commend and defend Christianity to intellectuals, but how to proclaim it among a thousand unreached peoples around the world, many of whom are illiterate, who cannot wait for generations of education.{{cquote|Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by the internal evidences of it . . . by a sight of its glory; it is impossible that those who are illiterate, and unacquainted with history, should have any thorough and effectual conviction of it at all. They may without this, see a great deal of probability of it; it may be reasonable for them to give much credit to what learned men and historians tell them. . . . But to have a conviction, so clear, and evident, and assuring, as to be sufficient to induce them, with boldness to sell all, confidently and fearlessly to run the venture of the loss of all things, and of enduring the most exquisite and long continued torments, and to trample the world under foot, and count all things but dung for Christ, the evidence they can have from history, cannot be sufficient. —[[Jonathan Edwards]]}}

*[https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/faith-and-reason Faith and Reason, Resource by John Piper. Topic: Life of the Mind, Ligonier National Conference - Orlando, Florida (desiringgod.org)] <br>John Piper's theme in this paper is faith and reason, beginning with reflections on reason and then on faith and then on the relationship between the two in the awakening of saving faith. He argues that even though our natural minds are depraved and darkened and foolish, nevertheless, the New Testament demands that we use them in coming to faith, and leading people to faith, and in the process of Christian growth and obedience. There is no way to awaken faith or strengthen faith that evades right thinking. John Piper passionately maintains that what should burden Christians on this issue is not only how to commend and defend Christianity to intellectuals, but how to proclaim it among a thousand unreached peoples around the world, many of whom are illiterate, who cannot wait for generations of education.{{cquote|Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by the internal evidences of it . . . by a sight of its glory; it is impossible that those who are illiterate, and unacquainted with history, should have any thorough and effectual conviction of it at all. They may without this, see a great deal of probability of it; it may be reasonable for them to give much credit to what learned men and historians tell them. . . . But to have a conviction, so clear, and evident, and assuring, as to be sufficient to induce them, with boldness to sell all, confidently and fearlessly to run the venture of the loss of all things, and of enduring the most exquisite and long continued torments, and to trample the world under foot, and count all things but dung for Christ, the evidence they can have from history [alone], cannot be sufficient. —[[Jonathan Edwards]]}}

==See also==

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