How Do You Know?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How do you know whether your beliefs are true? Is it even possible to know anything with certainly? Today, R.C. Sproul examines the foundation of our knowledge about God and all things.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God's Word. He 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 ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Why do you believe what you believe? |
| 0:03.0 | Because what you believe determines how you live. |
| 0:06.0 | And so it's a very important question to ask yourself, particularly as a Christian, |
| 0:10.0 | because Paul tells us to be babes in evil, but in our understanding to be adults, |
| 0:16.0 | which means we have to use the minds that God has given us to see the basis for truth. |
| 0:27.6 | If you're a Christian, why do you believe what you believe? Is it because your parents told you that the Christian faith is true? |
| 0:36.6 | Is it because you grew up in the |
| 0:38.6 | church and you never questioned or investigated it? Thankfully, because it is true, the scriptures do |
| 0:45.5 | stand up to scrutiny and we don't need to shrink back from thorough inquiry. This is the Wednesday |
| 0:52.3 | edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:57.0 | We're spending this week thinking about thinking, |
| 1:01.0 | as R.C. Sprole is helping us think like Christians, |
| 1:04.0 | introducing us to some of the philosophical debates |
| 1:07.0 | at the root of the question, |
| 1:09.0 | How do we know what we know? |
| 1:12.3 | This week's series, Think Like a Christian, is actually 12 messages, more than you'll hear this week on renewing your mind. |
| 1:19.8 | So I encourage you to request lifetime digital access to the series, plus R.C. Sproles' book, The Consequences of Ideas, |
| 1:27.4 | when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.C. Sproul's book, The Consequences of Ideas, When You Give a Donation of Any |
| 1:29.0 | Amount at Renewing Your Mind.org. So how do you know what you know? Here's Dr. Spraw. |
| 1:38.8 | Recently, I saw a bumper sticker that I got a little bit of a kick out of. It said, I am a golfer, therefore |
| 1:49.0 | I lie. Could have said, I'm a fisherman, therefore I lie. And obviously, this humorous bumper sticker was a takeoff on a very famous phrase that |
| 2:06.7 | finds its origin in the teaching of René Descartes, whom we have been looking at briefly. |
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