Does God Exist?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Can you prove that God exists? Is that even something we can possibly prove? Today, R.C. Sproul equips Christians to defend their faith as he explains the necessity of a Creator to account for the world.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | Can you prove that God exists? |
| 0:02.9 | Stay tuned for today's episode of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:06.8 | The notion of self-creation is what we would call it formally absurd. |
| 0:12.0 | That is to say, it's a contradictory, absurd notion. |
| 0:16.4 | For something to create itself, it would have to exist before it existed. |
| 0:27.9 | Bringing up that you're a Christian can be intimidating, can it? |
| 0:31.9 | We can be scared that someone will bring up an opposition to the Christian faith that we can't answer, |
| 0:38.6 | even a fundamental objection like the existence of God himself. This is the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm |
| 0:46.3 | Nathan W. Bingham, and this week you'll hear messages from R.C. Sproles series Christian Evidences. |
| 0:53.2 | It's a series recorded in the early days of the Ligeneer Valley Study Center, |
| 0:58.1 | with students in attendance and of course Dr. Sproles' iconic chalkboard. This series hasn't been |
| 1:04.2 | featured on renewing your mind for almost two decades, so you won't want to miss an episode. |
| 1:10.4 | And when you donate this week to support this daily outreach, you can own this series for life. |
| 1:15.6 | Plus, to further help you to be equipped to defend the faith, will send you the 32 Message series |
| 1:21.6 | Defending Your Faith, and the immensely popular book, A Field Guide on False Teaching, which covers topics |
| 1:29.3 | like Deism, the Prosperity Gospel, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Islam, New Aid spirituality, |
| 1:36.3 | and much more. Simply give your donation and request this significant offer at Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight Thursday. |
| 1:46.9 | So, does God exist? |
| 1:49.7 | Here's a young R.C. Sprawl. |
| 1:54.0 | The purpose for this brief series of lectures and Christian evidences is not to give us a technical |
| 2:00.0 | approach to the science of apologetics, |
| 2:03.6 | but to deal with practical methods of answering those questions that we most frequently hear |
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