J.P. MorelandIf you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehu… ▶372Humanity
J.P. MorelandIf we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind ✨ J.P. Morela… ▶353DeathHumanityLife
J.P. MorelandReligion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers378Time
J.P. MorelandI would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wr… ▶334Reading
J.P. MorelandThe contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.3710Thought
J.P. MorelandGod maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to ch… ▶349HumanityLife
J.P. MorelandThe soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body. That’s why when the soul leaves the body, the body becomes a corpse. The s… ▶253Love
J.P. MorelandIn Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a bibl… ▶232HopeTruth
J.P. MorelandWhen God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be that they have an impact on their decisions to trust Christ or not.257Humanity
J.P. MorelandLove God with all your mind. ✨ J. P. Moreland, James Porter Moreland, Mark Matlock (2005). Smart Faith: Loving Your God with All Your Mind, Think191HopeLoveThought
J.P. MorelandInstead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must rel… ▶2610Hope
J.P. MorelandThe proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.194Love
J.P. MorelandNo one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.166DeathTime
J.P. MorelandWhile the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to poli… ▶1710HopePolitics
