The Standard of All Truth

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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People today talk about "your truth" and "my truth," but the very notion of truth requires an ultimate standard that is objective and unchanging. Today, R.C. Sproul declares that God alone is the standard of all truth.

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0:00.0	The God hypothesis is necessary for us to have an ultimate reference point for truth.
0:08.0	Truth. Truths, that is if we discover a truth, and another truth, you know, talking about
0:19.9	truths, plural, truths, to speak of truths at all, implies some kind of system of truths, some kind of relationship of truths.
0:35.0	Truths presupposes truth.
0:39.0	The specific demands the universal.
0:45.0	What is it about something that puts it in the category of the true,
0:49.0	except that it corresponds to treness or to truth.
0:55.0	If you take away the concept of truth,
0:58.0	then you can't really meaningfully speak about truths.
1:01.0	And I hope I don't need to point out the application that to contemporary culture
1:07.0	because that's where we are. We see, we're right into this bag of relativism,
1:11.0	right into the bag of truths without any truth, which really makes
1:16.9	the concept of a truth meaningless. And so from the philosophical consideration of the possibility of knowledge, if there are to be
1:28.2	truths, there must be truth.
1:32.4	There has to be some ultimate standard of truth, some unchanging truth by which everything else is judged.
1:42.0	And this, of of course is God.
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