The agnostic not only refuses to acknowledge that there is a god, but in effect blames

God for his failure to do so, saying by inference that God has not made himself manifest and by so doing he's adding

insult to injury. One of the most common excuses that I've heard from people after have explained the gospel,

is they say when they die, they'll claim ignorance. If only you had

revealed yourself to me God, I would have followed you. Growing up outside of the

church, I had even said that myself. Hi, I'm Nathan W Bingham, and you're listening to renewing her mind.

But God has revealed himself, as we learned yesterday,

an ignorance or claiming to be an agnostic is not an excuse.

So to help you with your conversations with unbelieving neighbors or even family,

over three days you're hearing R.C. Sprawl teach on the psychology of atheism, and he's paying

particular attention to the Apostle Paul's words in Romans 1. So how do you

respond to someone who says that they have no knowledge of God's existence?

Here's Dr Sproll.

We continue now with our study of the psychology of atheism. In our last session we turned

our attention to Paul's letter to the Romans, to the first chapter, in which the

apostle sets forth a somewhat astonishing assertion by which he maintains that

there is a kind of psychology of atheism. We have been looking all along at the charges

made by atheistic philosophers that Christianity as well as other religions get their impetus originally out of some psychological need

to avoid the fearful things of nature, out of wish projection, or for a bromide of some sort.

And what we're looking at now is the counter response of the New Testament to this. And in the first chapter of Romans as we've

seen, Paul declares that God has manifested himself clearly through the created order in such a way that

all people know of his existence and this general revelation of which the

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