Is Man the Measure of All Things?

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In order to truly understand ourselves, we must learn more about our Creator. Today, R.C. Sproul shows that the Christian faith, rather than the empty philosophy of humanism, provides the answer to the question of human identity.

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0:00.0	The irony of humanism is that the inventor or the founder and the father of humanism wasn't even a human being.
0:10.0	Man is dependent, finite, contingent, finite, contingent.
0:15.0	God is eternal, infinite, independent.
0:20.0	He's the norm.
0:28.0	The father of humanism was protagonist. He lived in the ancient Hellenistic world,
0:31.0	back even before Plato. He had a little creed which these books will tell
0:37.8	you was the first creed of humanism and that creed is homomensura, man the measure. That is the ultimate norm by which everything is to be evaluated and weighed is man.
1:01.5	Man is ultimate.
1:03.0	Man is the measure of all things.
1:06.0	What was it said the proper study of mankind is man?
1:12.0	What does Christianity say? A proper study of mankind is God, because it's only in
1:21.9	a knowledge of God that we come to a proper understanding of who man is.
1:27.0	Because man is created in the image of God.
1:31.0	It's not that God has created in the image of man, but man is dependent, finite,
1:37.8	contingent. God is eternal, infinite, independent. He's the newer by which we understand our own
1:45.5	existence. We are his image. He's the real thing. We're the image. But
1:52.4	protagonist, ladies and gentlemen, did not invent humanism.
1:57.0	And Homer Mansura was not the first creed of humanism.
2:01.0	The irony of humanism is that the inventor or the founder and the father of humanism
2:08.4	wasn't even a human being.
2:09.7	It was a snake.
2:15.0	Snake came to two people one day and said,
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