Human Nature

“We cannot naively assume this is only about improving the human condition when the result permanently alters what it means to be human.” - CPost

“We get many things wrong these days, but if your heart does not skip a few beats when watching a giant rocket race into the skies, there is something wrong with you.” - Al Mohler

“Since we forfeited the garden, humans have been pierced with a home-longing. We leave home looking to find home. Yet it always seems to elude us. It’s never the same if we go back.” - Desiring God

How Do You See Others? - P&D

“Across dozens of scientific studies in diverse contexts, the physical and mental health benefits of forgiveness have been validated.” - RNS

“unbelievers can, by virtue of common grace, come to philosophical conclusions that are helpful and true and can be utilized by the Christian. … Though in recent days, when it comes to Aristotle (and Aquinas’s use of Aristotle), there are some who are quick to sound an alarm” - Ref21

“God gave people creativity in their unfallen state, which remained but was twisted when we fell. He will surely not give us less creativity in Heaven but more, unmarred by sin, unlimited by mortality.” - Randy Alcorn

“what if we do manage to create a language model that can’t be distinguished from a human; a model that passes the Turing test?… Even if the AI is not sentient, the implications are serious.” - Reasons

“When God is rejected or considered irrelevant there is nothing the heart of man won’t use to try and fill that sense of emptiness. This doesn’t have to be in ways as sensational as mansions or sex or hedge funds; think of the deification of the environment or ‘science,’ or the endless advertising for the latest gadget or the perfect diet, or…” - Acton

“In many cases, sin does express itself in shocking debauchery—but most often it expresses itself in more invisible or easily justifiable ways of ‘walking in the flesh.’” - Russel Moore