Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are continuing a conversation we started last week.

Last week we were talking about David Hume, the skeptical Scottish philosopher from the 18th century.

We are talking about how one of his books that was very popular in his own day,

a eight volume series of books actually history of Great Britain mentions the Westminster

Standards and that's an aspect of David Hume that not everybody knows about David Hume

the historian well today we'll talk about that aspect

that people do know about David Hume,

the philosopher.

As we mentioned, he is known as the father

or the founder of skepticism,

philosophical skepticism, this idea

that we really can't know what we know.

We can't have certainty in what we know and in one sense were plagued with doubt.

Well one of the reasons Hume arrived at this was because of his understanding of how we understand experience and what we can make of experience.

Talking about the law of causality here and how we know that every effect has an equal or greater than cause.

This goes back in the history of philosophy, back to Aristotle.

David Hume questioned that.

He said, how can we know?

We can observe what he called customary relationships, but how can we know we know we can observe what he called customary relationships but how can we

know every time and in every place that the law of cause and effect works and he concludes

you know what we can't all we can speak of is customary relationships.

Well, David Hume used that to defeat many of the classical arguments for the existence

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