Defending Your Faith - R.C. Sproul - Ligonier Ministries
Law of Causality - E.6 - Defending Your Faith - RC Sproul
Episode 6
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22m
Throughout history, the law of causality has been used to argue for the existence of God by reasoning from the appearance of this world back to an adequate or sufficient cause that would explain this world or this universe. The law itself states, "Every effect must have an antecedent cause." So we would ask, "Does God have a cause?" Dr. Sproul delves into this section of apologetics by preaching on behalf of our God who is a self-existing, eternal being who is independent, yet eternal.
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