Kant’s Moral Argument

Renewing Your Mind

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🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Our sense of duty to do good can only have meaning if it comes from God. Is this enough to prove that God exists? Today, R.C. Sproul responds to the influential and problematic views of Immanuel Kant.

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0:00.0	If Kant is right, then manifestly Paul is wrong.
0:04.6	And if Paul is right, then Kant has made an error.
0:09.0	And I'm obviously convinced that Paul is right and why I've been a stick in the mud
0:13.6	with respect to classical apologetics is that I'm saying that the task of the
0:18.9	Christian philosopher in our day is to knock this wall down and not just lie down and play dead at the consequences of our ideas? Why is it that today it's a commonly held belief that we can only know that which we can see with our eyes or see through a microscope. That wasn't
0:45.3	what was always believed and we as Christians certainly don't believe that.
0:49.0	The Apostle Paul didn't believe or teach that. It's good to have you with us for this Saturday
0:54.2	edition of Renewing Her Mind. We've been spending time on Saturdays considering the
1:00.1	philosophical ideas and the fallout of the Enlightenment as we feature the of ideas. You can request the entire series and learn more at renewing your mind.org.
1:16.6	So what did Emmanuel can't believe about God and in what way did he disagree
1:22.4	with what Paul teaches in Romans one?
1:25.0	And why did he oppose the classical arguments for the existence of God?
1:29.0	Here's Dr Sprole.
1:46.4	If we were to try to capture the agnosticism of Emmanuel Kant with respect to theology and metaphysics it would be with the common expression that you hear quote you can't get there from here.
1:53.6	Kant is famous for building, as it were, an unscalable wall between this world and the transcendent realm.
2:06.8	The wall is so solid, so impregnable, so high, you can't get over it, so low high you can't get over it so low you can't get under it so wide you can't
2:17.1	get around it and so thick you can't burrow through it following up on another
2:22.3	philosopher's theory whose name was Lessing, who gave us the famous metaphor of Lessing's ditch, where Lessing argued that the contingent truths of history cannot
2:39.0	get you to the eternal truths of God. You can't get there from here. Well in this schema,
2:47.0	Kant made a distinction that has perhaps been more famous than anything else that he's done and also perhaps more
2:55.8	significant than anything else that he's done.
2:59.0	And that is, he distinguishes between two realms.
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