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Renewing Your Mind

Only Two Worldviews

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Does God exist? Our answer to this question shapes our understanding of right and wrong, human dignity, and the meaning of life. Today, R.C. Sproul exposes the radical difference between a theistic worldview and an atheistic one.

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0:00.0

You've heard the idea that man is a cosmic accident, a grown-up germ.

0:06.6

He fortuitously emerges out of the slime.

0:09.6

His origin is from nothingness, and he ultimately moves towards nothingness.

0:18.8

And yet the humanist will be at the front of the parade, crusading for human rights,

0:25.2

for human values, and for human dignity.

0:28.0

We scratch our heads and we say, wait a minute, if I'm a cosmic accident,

0:31.9

if I begin an insignificance and I end an insignificance, how can I possibly have any significance in between?

0:44.4

Despite all the ideas and opinions that are out there, when we boil it down,

0:48.3

there really are only two worldviews, one which acknowledges the existence of God,

0:53.4

and one that seeks to deny his existence altogether.

0:56.8

I am Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind.

1:01.5

Within an atheist worldview, there really is no difference between animals and humans.

1:06.5

There's no objective standard for morality, and no justification for human dignity.

1:11.8

In his Ultimate Issues series, RC sprawl pushed back on these common ideas

1:16.6

that are being taught on college campuses, challenging students in particular

1:20.4

to think deeply about the questions of life, these questions that matter ultimately.

1:25.1

To help you give an answer to those who are around you,

1:27.7

here's Dr. Sproul with a message titled Only Two World Views.

1:34.2

In the summer of 1994, astronomers were treated to an unprecedented spectacle in the sky.

1:44.0

Through the use of modern technology with the Hubble spacecraft,

1:48.4

they were able to receive telescopic photographs of a massive collision between fragments

1:57.2

from a gigantic comet that broke apart and crashed into Jupiter, which is the largest planet,

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