Agnosticism Is Not an Option
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The excuse of every self-proclaimed agnostic. |
| 0:03.0 | I didn't know the gun was loaded. |
| 0:05.0 | If I just would have known. |
| 0:07.0 | Paul warns that ignorance is not going to be an excuse on the day of judgment. |
| 0:20.0 | I was talking to somebody this week, and they were telling me, he said, so-and-so, my friend, |
| 0:24.9 | is not an atheist. He's an agnostic. I said, an agnostic is the worst kind of atheist. And he said, |
| 0:33.3 | what do you mean? I said, well, theism means that you affirm the existence of God or gods. |
| 0:40.6 | Atheism covers everything outside the category of theism. And the agnostic is outside the category |
| 0:49.5 | of the theist because he will not affirm the existence of God and then blames God for it, says, the reason I can't affirm the existence of God, and then blames God for it, says the reason |
| 0:56.5 | I can't affirm the existence of God is because I am agonoscow. I am without knowledge. The Latin |
| 1:04.2 | translation of agnosis or agnostic is ignoramus. I'm ignorant. Then the plea of the agnostic is this, oh God, |
| 1:16.4 | if you just would have made yourself known to me, if you just would have shown me a miracle, |
| 1:22.8 | if you just would have given me sufficient data to make a rational judgment, I would have been |
| 1:27.6 | your most faithful supporter. |
| 1:30.0 | That despite every moment of that person's existence, the heaven is declaring the glory of God, |
| 1:35.7 | and God is manifesting himself plainly and clearly to his eternal power and deity before his |
| 1:41.8 | very eyes and in the midst of his soul so that every human being |
| 1:45.5 | that walks upon this earth knows and knows with certainty that God exists. |
| 1:51.0 | The sin of man is not that we don't know him, it's that we refuse to acknowledge him, |
| 1:56.7 | even though we do know him. |
| 2:00.1 | And when Paul says in Romans that they will be without excuse, what excuse do you think |
| 2:04.5 | they'll be resting upon? |
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