Two Friends for Life

* You'll disagree with them sometimes, but remember the proverb: "Faithful are the wounds of a friend, / But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful" (27:6).

• Good Bible Teaching from the Famous Bible Chair of Biola, Dr. J. Vernon McGee

• Listen to 25 minutes a day, while you drive or job or what not.  You'll make it through the Bible in five years.  He's not perfect, and you won't agree with everything he says, but he's very good.  He's clear; he knows Greek and Latin well.  He is generally balanced.  He deals with the entire Bible.  He's rather funny and has a southern drawl.  He applies the Bible with anecdotes.  You'll probably notice bits of Schwager in him because there are chunks of McGee in me.  My grandmother, my mother, I, and now my children have all been blessed.  Hop on the Bible bus with us. 
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Why do I love Chesterton?  He helps me to see the wonder in the world anew.  He answered so many questions so beautifully.  He's a journalist with a watercolor poet's eye and mirthful angel's heart.  I enjoy his company. I love his poetry and fiction.  I even love his apologetics. 

For instance, take this typically materialistic thought from Richard Dawkins, recently:

"We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living."

Now consider Chesterton's thought from 1905 (H.G. Wells, as an atheist, said much the same as Dawkins): 

“It is as if a man were asked, 'What is the use of a hammer?' and answered, 'To make hammers'; and when asked, 'And of those hammers, what is the use?' answered, 'To make hammers again.' Just as such a man would be perpetually putting off the question of the ultimate use of carpentry, so Mr. Wells and all the rest of us are by these phrases successfully putting off the question of the ultimate value of the human life.”



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Attribution for Dawkins: Royal Institution Christmas Lecture, 'The Ultraviolet Garden', (No. 4, 1991). Quoted in Vinoth Ramachandra, Subverting Global Myths: Theology and the Public Issues Shaping our World (2008), 187. 

Attribution for Chesterton: Heretics, publish 1905.