Four Possibilities
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
There are only four possible reasons to account for the world's existence. And only one of them is logically compelling. Today, R.C. Sproul sets forth classical arguments for the existence of God.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | The questions of the existence of God is not an issue that is played out on a neutral playing |
| 0:06.1 | field. There is an enormous amount at stake here, because if we can prove that God exists, |
| 0:17.1 | the eternal God of the universe without a doubt exists. |
| 0:22.4 | That means I'm going to be held accountable for how I behave and how I live. |
| 0:34.7 | That's a sobering thought, isn't it? |
| 0:37.0 | And as R.C. Sprole will go on to say, it is the moral |
| 0:40.6 | implications of God's existence that result in the unbelieber denying his existence. Welcome to the |
| 0:47.7 | Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm glad you're with us. Ultimately, there are four possible |
| 0:53.6 | reasons to account for the world's existence, |
| 0:56.6 | and only one of them is logically compelling. Here's Dr. Sprole. |
| 1:03.0 | We've been looking at various ways in which Christian theologians and apologists have sought to |
| 1:10.5 | defend the truth claims of Christianity. |
| 1:13.6 | And we've looked at the crisis that ensued from the critique of Emmanuel Kant and how some |
| 1:19.8 | have gone to a historical evidential means of trying to prove the existence of God. |
| 1:26.7 | Others have tried to establish belief in the existence of God on the basis of a leap of faith. |
| 1:33.0 | We've seen a brief introduction to the Presuppositionalist School of Apologetics. |
| 1:38.8 | And what I promised the last time was that I would begin to give you a presentation on how the classical method would |
| 1:47.5 | proceed to try to establish proof for the existence of God. And so that's what we're going to |
| 1:54.5 | begin with this session. Now, the way I like to proceed in arguing for the existence of God is by following |
| 2:03.7 | a method that in its rudimentary form was first established by St. Augustine many, many |
| 2:11.6 | centuries ago. And I've tweaked it a little bit using various insights from philosophers and apologists |
| 2:20.8 | throughout history. |
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