Suppressing the Truth
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Since creation clearly reveals the existence of God, why do so many people refuse to believe in Him? Today, R.C. Sproul addresses the psychological and moral reasons why atheists suppress the knowledge of God.
For Your Gift of Any Amount, Get Two Resources to Help You Defend the Faith: https://stage.gift.renewingyourmind.org/2996/atheism
Don't forget to make RenewingYourMind.org your home for daily in-depth Bible study and Christian resources.
A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | God's self-disclosure is so plain, so clear through the entire creation that every person who |
| 0:10.6 | encounters it is left without excuse. Psalm Psal 19 states, states, |
| 0:23.0 | The heavens declare the glory of God, |
| 0:25.0 | and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. |
| 0:29.0 | With the clear revelation of God in creation, |
| 0:32.0 | why are there atheists? Why is it that some perhaps many refuse to believe in God? |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome to the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host Nathan W Bingham. For the next few days |
| 0:46.4 | we'll be considering the psychology of atheism. How do they think and why are |
| 0:52.0 | they're atheists anyway? |
| 0:54.0 | We'll also be offering R.C. Sproll's book, |
| 0:56.2 | If there's a God, why are they atheists? |
| 0:59.3 | That's available at renewing your mind. |
| 1:01.4 | org. So why is it that despite the speech that is |
| 1:05.4 | poured out day to day to continue psalm 19 that there are many people that call |
| 1:10.2 | themselves atheists or agnostics. |
| 1:13.2 | To help us think through the psychology of atheism, |
| 1:15.7 | here's Dr Sproll. |
| 1:18.6 | In our studies on renewing your mind, |
| 1:21.4 | there have been several occasions where we have turned our attention to the |
| 1:24.8 | first chapter of Romans for concerns with respect to understanding what we call general revelation because here is the classical |
| 1:36.7 | location in scripture by which the apostolic testimony affirms that God reveals himself plainly and clearly to all people. |
| 1:48.0 | We're going to look back now to Romans one, not for the same reasons that we have in the past and other courses, but now as |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ligonier Ministries, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ligonier Ministries and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.