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Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

A Rational Faith

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We cannot divorce the Christian faith from reason and rational thinking. Today, R.C. Sproul teaches that the mind plays an important role in our walk with Christ.

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How do you learn? How do you study? Do you give any stock to logic?

0:06.0

Do you believe, for example, the truth can be illogical?

0:12.0

My seminary students, almost every one of them, comes in there, their first year, I said,

0:15.0

do you believe that the truth of God can be contradictory?

0:19.0

Fast majority of them, say, yes, of course. They don't realize

0:23.6

that they're blaspheming God. They've made God a liar. But they come that way because

0:30.6

they haven't learned the role of rationality in the pursuit of truth. Christianity is not rationalism, but it is by all

0:41.2

means rational. And so the Bible assumes both the importance of the mind and the importance

0:50.3

of the senses. I want you to think about how you know what you think you know.

0:56.8

To ask yourselves a question, am I sure about this? Take out a piece of paper and write down on it,

1:02.3

ten things that you know for sure, ten things that you would die for that you know for sure.

1:07.3

If we did that in this room tonight, we would find people convinced of one thing that's a direct opposite of another person's,

1:17.0

somebody's wrong. But we are supposed to be people who are committed to the discovery of truth.

1:26.7

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1:29.8

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1:32.9

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1:41.2

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