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Renewing Your Mind

Exchanging the Truth for a Lie

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

4.84.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

To avoid accountability before the God who plainly reveals Himself, sinful humanity replaces the truth of God with a lie we can live with. Today, R.C. Sproul considers the idolatry at the heart of atheism and unbelief.

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God's revelation comes, it goes in, we fear it, we bury it, we exchange it, we bring it back out in the form of a lie we can live with, the most radical extreme is the lie that there that no one has an excuse before God.

0:31.4

None of us are ignorant because God has made himself clearly known

0:35.2

through his creation. Yet sinful man takes that revelation, that truth, and

0:40.6

suppresses it, pushing it down and trying to ignore it.

0:45.0

Welcome to renewing her mind as we conclude a study today on the psychology of atheism.

0:52.0

The world doesn't simply suppress the truth. Paul goes on to say

0:56.4

they exchange the truth for a lie. We need to be thoughtful as we seek to

1:01.6

understand the psychology of atheism, which is why this

1:04.9

series from Dr Sproll is 15 messages and also has a companion book.

1:10.0

Requests both at renewingram mind dot org before this resource offer ends at midnight

1:16.5

so what do atheists and non-Christians exchange the truth with and why is it that they do it?

1:23.0

Well, here's Dr Sproll to help us understand.

1:25.0

As we continue our study of the psychology of atheism,

1:32.0

we have been looking at the Apostle Paul's astonishing assertion that

1:40.0

God has so clearly revealed himself to every human being that every person in the world

1:47.7

knows that there is a God.

1:50.4

Let me just qualify this a little bit because our attention has been focused pretty much on the first chapter of Paul's letter to the Romans in this discussion, and we haven't looked at other segments of his teaching, but in the second chapter of Romans

2:06.1

Paul goes on to say that not only does man know God from beholding the created realm, but also there is an inner knowledge of God

2:18.0

that is planted in the soul or in the heart of every person by which the apostle declares that every human being knows

2:28.9

basically and foundationally the difference between right and wrong because the law of God has been

2:39.7

planted in our hearts.

2:43.8

What Paul is arguing for here is a kind of knowledge that in philosophy we call

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