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🗓️ 17 May 2025
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Without Jesus Christ, there can be no hope. Today, R.C. Sproul evaluates the grim price tag of atheism. He shows us that the logical end of unbelief is emptiness and futility.
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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 | You might like it for a season. |
0:01.9 | It might sound good when you hear that schools out, no more teachers, sassy looks, and so on, |
0:07.1 | because we have a vacation from the God of the Bible who says he's going to hold us accountable |
0:11.8 | for everything that we do. |
0:13.4 | And when we find out that that God doesn't exist, we leap into the air and click our heels |
0:18.6 | together and say, I'm free. |
0:20.5 | And that sounds terrific until you |
0:22.6 | turn it over and look at the price tag. |
0:31.6 | If the Enlightenment philosophers are correct, God doesn't exist, moralityality doesn't exist. Accountability doesn't exist. |
0:40.6 | But if that's true, there's no point to life, just a sunrise and sunset and nothing in between. |
0:48.1 | Thank you for joining us for this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind, as we spend several |
0:53.2 | weeks in R.C. Sproles' extensive series |
0:55.8 | Defending Your Faith. If you'd like to be able to defend your faith against the claims |
1:01.3 | that morality is merely a social construct, that there is no God, no moral lawgiver, |
1:07.8 | request lifetime digital access to this 32-part series and its study guide |
1:12.9 | when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org, or by using the link in the |
1:18.4 | podcast show notes. When you do, we'll also send you two books, a field guide on false teaching |
1:24.2 | and a field guide on gender and sexuality. But don't delay as today's resource |
1:29.4 | offer ends at midnight. So is life vanity of vanities? Here's R.C. Sprold to explain the meaning |
1:37.2 | of life, that true significance can be found and that it's found outside of us. |
1:45.0 | As we continue now with our study of defending our faith, the science of apologetics, |
1:51.0 | you recall that in our last session, I looked briefly at the moral argument for the existence |
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