Van Til recalled his Christian upbringing in his booklet, Why I Believe in God  (Quoted by John R. Muether, Cornelius Van Til: Reformed Apologist and Churchman, 29).

Ours was not in any sense a pietistic family. There were not any great emotional outbursts on any occasion that I recall. There was much ado about making hay in the summer and about caring for the cows and sheep in the winter, but round about it all there was a deep conditioning atmosphere. . . . I learned that I must believe the Scripture story, and that “faith was a gift of God” . . . I was “conditioned” in the most thorough fashion. I could not help believing in God–in the God of Christianity–in the God of the whole Bible.