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Renewing Your Mind

Reliability of Sense Perception

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Although our physical senses are imperfect, they remain the only link between our minds and the world around us. Today, R.C. Sproul defends the basic reliability of sense perception.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

My senses cannot give me a comprehensive view of reality.

0:04.3

But the only link I have from the interior chamber of my mind,

0:10.1

my thinking to the external world is through my senses.

0:14.9

My body is the bridge from my mind to the world.

0:19.6

That's why it's axiomatic in modern science and in biblical studies

0:25.7

to operate with the assumption that our basic equipment that we have,

0:31.6

the faculties of knowing that God has given us,

0:34.8

are at least reliable enough for us to act upon.

0:38.9

Again, when I see the light turn red,

0:41.6

I can speculate that maybe a demon caused it,

0:44.8

or it's a malfunction in that's possibility,

0:47.3

but I trust it enough to put my foot on the break.

0:57.3

The greatest skeptic in the room can try and deny the reality of objective truth

1:02.6

and even the trustworthiness of their senses.

1:05.9

But in reality, if the world was like that,

1:08.5

they wouldn't even survive for 30 seconds.

1:11.9

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today

1:14.9

for renewing your mind.

1:16.6

The Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 1, 16, says,

1:20.0

for we did not follow cleverly devised myths,

1:23.2

but we were eye witnesses.

1:25.8

This week, Dr. Sproul has been taking us through his series,

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