The existence of God, if anything exists, is rationally necessary.

That is, if something exists now, reason demands that we come to the conclusion that something has always existed, that something somewhere has the

power of being within itself, or we simply could not account for the existence of anything.

Again, I remind you, if there was ever a time when there was nothing,

absolutely nothing, what could there possibly be now?

Except nothing.

As a rational and illogical as it is, I did grow up believing that billions of years ago, there was nothing.

And then it exploded and created everything.

I didn't think about it.

I didn't question it.

And your neighbors likely don't either.

So how do you have a conversation with someone

and help them realize, as Arcei Sproll just said that if there ever was a time when

there was nothing there would be nothing here today.

You're listening to the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind,

and this week you're hearing messages from Dr Sproll's very popular series defending your faith,

which is his overview of apologetics. Well because there is something here today and not nothing

we know that there must be something or someone who is self-existent and

eternal.

Here's Dr. Sproll to explain.

As we continue now with our study of apologetics,

we recall that what we've been examining in the past lectures are the

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