No one can really understand who God is until we first have some kind of

understanding of who we are as human beings. And yet paradoxically and conversely, there's no way that we can really understand what it means

to be human until we first understand the character of God.

So that the knowledge of God and the knowledge of man work

together in a kind of reciprocity that both they're mutually interdependent. What is man?

What is man?

The question of identity, who we are is a pressing question of our time, especially for the up-and-coming generations.

This is the Saturday edition of Renewing Her Mind, as we begin a series on what it means to be human.

You'll hear R.C. Sproll say today that we are living in a time in history

where the definition of what it means to be human

is one of the most hotly debated and contested

questions of our era. That was true when he recorded this series and has only

continued to be debated and contested and the truth of what it means to be human, further and

further distorted and perverted.

That's why a series like this is so important, and you can request lifetime digital access to this series and

study guide plus we'll send you R.C. Sproll's book The Hunger for Significance

when you make a donation of any amount at renewing your mind dot org. Here's Dr. Sproll to begin

this series with a message titled Man, the Supreme Paradox. When I was a boy, I remember paradox.

When I was a boy, I remember one of my favorite radio programs began with this exciting lead-in.

The announcer came on the air and said,

look up in the announcer came on the air and said look up in the air it's a bird it's a

plane it's superman and of course I think most of us remember that kind of episode from radio days. But as

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