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🗓️ 11 June 2025
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What tools do we need to defend the existence of God? Today, R.C. Sproul shows how we can prove our Creator’s existence using nothing more than simple logic and a shoe.
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R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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0:00.0 | The guns of skepticism have been so vigorously trained upon the idea of creation |
0:08.2 | because the skeptic understands this, that if he can do away with the rational concept |
0:14.3 | of divine creation, then the whole structure of Christian faith collapses. |
0:20.0 | Music then the whole structure of Christian faith collapses. |
0:32.0 | In the first chapter of Romans, the Apostle Paul tells us that we know God exists because creation exists, but philosophers through the ages have disagreed. They have said that we can never rationally know |
0:39.1 | that God exists. Well, today on renewing your mind, R.C. Sproll will take another approach, |
0:45.8 | and believe it or not, he'll prove God's existence with one shoe and simple logic. |
0:52.1 | But before we hear that message, don't forget to request this week's |
0:55.9 | Apologetics Resource Bundle that includes this series, Objections Answered, and another series |
1:02.1 | from Dr. Sproul defending your faith when you give a donation in support of renewing your mind |
1:07.4 | at Renewing Your Mind.org. So how do you prove the existence of God with a shoe? |
1:14.3 | Here's Dr. Sprole. |
1:17.8 | As we continue our study now with the most common objections raised against Christian truth claims, |
1:25.9 | we recall that in our last program, we looked at the crisis |
1:29.7 | brought to the church by this massive critique of the traditional arguments for the existence |
1:36.5 | of God, which critique was made by the philosopher, Emmanuel Kant. And if I may review it for you, |
1:44.0 | or if you've missed that particular |
1:45.8 | program, you will notice that Kant argued that reason cannot move through the use of cause and |
1:58.3 | effect from the physical universe that we perceive to the conclusion that |
2:05.2 | above and beyond this physical universe, there is a non-physical reality named God. And we see a |
2:13.7 | collision course here between the teaching of the Apostle Paul and the teaching of |
2:18.8 | Emmanuel Kant. |
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