God, as Aristotle rightly understood, is an uncaused cause. And you don't have to

provide a cause for an eternal being. And when we define the character of God, we

say that God is a self-existing eternal being who is independent, undarrived, not

contingent, but he's eternal, he is not caused because he is not an effect. Only

things that are made are a facts.

The psalmist tells us that the heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above

proclaims his handiwork. As Christians, as we look out and see this world around

us, we know for there to be a creation, there must be a creator. Hi, I'm Nathan

W. Bingham and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind. Although

it's obvious to us as Christians, as we look around and see creation to know

that there is a creator, the apostle Paul tells us that they suppress this

truth in unrighteousness. So how do we have conversations with unbelievers? Well

today as Dr. RC Sproul continues his series defending your faith, he's going to

help us do just that and not just defend our faith, but to defend it reasonably

and logically. He is Dr. Sproul. Today we're going to continue our study of

apologetics and what we're in the middle of at this point is examining four

principles of knowledge that are crucial for any sound defense of Christianity,

principles that are constantly under attack by those who deny the existence of

God. And so far we've isolated four of those, what I call non-negotiable,

principles that are necessary to human knowledge, number one, and also principles

that are assumed by all people and also assumed in the pages of sacred

scripture. And the four that we've isolated I remind you are the necessity of

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