“The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit.”

—  William Lane Craig

Source: Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (1994), p. 37.

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