The question of the ancient philosophers was also the deeper question of why.

Is there any purpose for birds?

Is there a purpose for wind and for water for stars and for the moon?

And is there any purpose to human existence?

They're asking for the goal or the end.

This is a profoundly theological question.

For millennia, philosophers have sought to answer the question of why.

Why do we exist?

What does out end the goal of life?

This is a question that most of us ask ourselves at some point as well.

Who am I?

And why am I here?

You're listening to renewing your mind on this Monday

as we begin another week of study with RC Sproul.

As Dr. Sproul said, the question of why is deeply theological?

But as people have answered that question differently,

those ideas have had consequences and helped shape the world in which you and I live.

Here's RC Sproul as he takes us back to the 6th century BC

to a time before Jesus was born, even before Socrates was born,

and introduces us to a man named Thales and the question that he was seeking to answer.

I remember back in the days of radio that one of the popular programs on the air,

which was later then made into a television program,

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