Man: The Supreme Paradox

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Many people today believe they have the right to define who they are. Yet our Creator alone enjoys this prerogative. Today, R.C. Sproul considers what it means to be human from God's perspective as revealed in His Word.

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Meet Today's Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) 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 media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	No one can really understand who God is until we first have some kind of understanding of
0:07.0	who we are as human beings. And yet, paradoxically and conversely, there's no way that we can
0:15.2	really understand what it means to be human until we first understand the character of God.
0:21.7	So that the knowledge of God and the knowledge of man work together in a kind of reciprocity,
0:28.1	that both they're mutually interdependent.
0:35.6	What is man?
0:38.8	The question of identity.
0:40.3	Who are we?
0:41.4	It's a pressing question of our time,
0:44.0	especially for the rising generations.
0:46.6	This is the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:49.6	I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham.
0:52.6	This week will consider what it means to be human. You'll hear
0:56.7	R.C. Sproles say today that we're living in a time in history where the definition of what it
1:02.2	means to be human is one of the most hotly debated and contested questions of our era. That
1:08.5	was true when he recorded this series and has only continued to
1:12.1	be debated and contested, and the truth of what it means to be human only further and further
1:18.0	distorted and perverted. That's why a series like this is so important. And you can request
1:24.6	lifetime digital access to this series and its study guide,
1:28.8	plus we'll send you a copy of R.C. Sproul's book, The Hunger for Significance,
1:33.5	when you give a donation at renewingyourmind.org, or when you call us at 800, 435-4343.
1:42.4	Well, here's Dr. Sproul to begin this series with a message titled, Man, the Supreme Paradox.
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