The most basic primordial sin of fallen humanity that's common to every one of us is the refusal to honor God as God.

The refusal to honor him with the worship, his very being, and nature deserves and require.

And that magnificent truth of his beauty, of his holiness, of his transcendent majesty, we swap, we trade for a lie.

And we worship false gods.

I can remember growing up as an unbeliever and thinking that if I was wrong about God not existing,

I'd simply explain to him that if he had revealed himself to me, I'd have been happy to follow him.

Well, I know now that he has revealed himself in creation to everyone and I was suppressing that truth.

This is the Tuesday edition of renewing your mind and I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham.

Does anyone have an excuse for not believing in God?

Paul explains in Romans 1 that they are without excuse, and today RC Sproul explains why.

For the rest of this week, Dr. Sproul will be teaching through sections of the Westminster Confession of Faith.

He called this one of the most important confessions of faith ever penned.

And today, he begins at the beginning, a section in the confession on Scripture,

and what all people can learn from what the confession calls the light of nature.

Here's Dr. Sproul.

The Westminster Confession of Faith begins with the first chapter with the title, quote,

of the Holy Scripture.

Now, before we look at what is said here in this first chapter, I want to address the question,

why the authors and framers of the Westminster Confession begin their credal statement with the

doctrine of Scripture.

Characteristically, theology initiates its study with the nature and character of God,

and then move from God to the Bible.

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