Two Ways of Knowing
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We've all heard the phrase "Seeing is believing." But there are other ways of discovering the truth than what we experience with our senses. Today, R.C. Sproul provides a balanced approach in obtaining knowledge and certainty.
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R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God's Word. He 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.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get to today's episode, I would like to take a moment to invite you to join us next February for a Caribbean study cruise. |
| 0:08.5 | You'll have the opportunity to meet me and other renewing your mind listeners, |
| 0:12.8 | and Ken Jones and Derek Thomas will be with us to teach through the rich theological truths of Galatians 3. |
| 0:20.3 | Enjoy eight days of fellowship, teaching, and |
| 0:23.3 | refreshment on Ligeneer Ministries' 2025 Caribbean Study Cruise. If you'd like to join us, |
| 0:29.9 | February 22nd through March 1st, you can learn more and register at Ligeneer Tours.com. |
| 0:36.8 | I hope to see you then. Now on to today's episode. |
| 0:41.0 | The Bible records narrative after narrative after narrative that makes assertions about what people |
| 0:48.2 | actually see or observe. That is, the resurrection of Jesus is not presented to us in the New Testament as a |
| 0:56.8 | construction of fiction or as a theoretical abstract possibility. |
| 1:02.4 | But the claim of the biblical writers is that there were an abundance of eyewitnesses who testified |
| 1:10.7 | to seeing Jesus die and three days later |
| 1:15.6 | seeing him come back from the grave so that much of the testimony of the scriptures rests upon |
| 1:23.5 | empirical observation. |
| 1:32.0 | Music on empirical observation. The Bible speaks of our minds, and it speaks of our senses. |
| 1:36.3 | It also assumes that our senses can be used and relied upon to observe the world around |
| 1:41.2 | us. |
| 1:42.2 | As you just heard, R.C. Spurill remind us, we're told in the New Testament |
| 1:45.4 | about the eyewitnesses to the resurrection, or even Thomas, who wanted to see and touch the wounds of |
| 1:51.4 | Jesus to believe. So how does reason relate to our senses? What are the two ways of knowing? |
| 1:58.9 | This is the Friday edition of Renewing your mind, and we've spent a week |
| 2:03.0 | thinking about thinking, and hearing messages from Arcey Sproles' series Think Like a Christian. |
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