Faith and Reason
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Word of God is not irrational. Neither should our faith be. Today, R.C. Sproul explores the relationship between faith, reason, and science within Christianity.
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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 | The crisis today is not so much a crisis between faith and theology and reason in science. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm convinced that the crisis has to do with the relationship between faith and reason. |
| 0:20.0 | In order to embrace Christianity, many people think that you need to take a leap of faith, |
| 0:25.6 | a blind leap. On the other hand, most people agree that science involves a rational pursuit of truth, |
| 0:33.6 | as if Christianity and science are incompatible. But R.C. Spruill will argue that faith is actually |
| 0:40.4 | quite reasonable, and anyone who wants to pursue truth should use the scientific method. Welcome to |
| 0:47.6 | the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and for the next few days you'll be hearing messages |
| 0:52.4 | from Dr. Spruill's series, Creation or Chaos. |
| 0:56.9 | If you'd like to study this topic, I encourage you to request the entire six-part series on DVD, |
| 1:03.5 | along with digital access to the messages and study guide, |
| 1:06.6 | when you give a donation in support of renewing your mind at renewingermind.org, |
| 1:12.1 | or when you call us at 800, 435-4343. |
| 1:17.2 | Well, to start this creation or chaos series, |
| 1:20.7 | here's Dr. Sprawl on faith and reason. |
| 1:26.7 | Recently, I read a novel where there was a debate going on between a priest and a scientist. |
| 1:35.2 | And at one point in the discussion, the scientist said to the priest, you state your faith, |
| 1:42.0 | and I'll give my reason. |
| 1:45.3 | And he set forth the debate between them in terms of a dispute between faith and reason. |
| 1:55.8 | Not altogether unlike some of the differences of opinion I've had with my wife, where she sometimes complains, |
| 2:05.1 | and she said, I can't debate with you. You always want to resort to logic when I just know that this |
| 2:11.4 | position is false. And I say, a man with logic is never at the mercy of a woman with intuition. |
| 2:19.0 | So we have our own little disputes following the same kind of disjunction. |
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