Bio
Dr. R.C. Sproul is founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian education ministry located near Orlando, Fla. He is copastor of Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Fla., chancellor of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. Ligonier Ministries began in 1971 as the Ligonier Valley Study Center in Ligonier, Pa. In an effort to respond more effectively to the growing demand for Dr. Sproul's teachings and the ministry's other educational resources, the general offices were moved to Orlando in 1984, and the ministry was renamed.
Dr. Sproul's teaching can be heard on the program Renewing Your Mind with Dr. R.C. Sproul, which is broadcast on hundreds of radio outlets in the United States and in more than forty countries worldwide. Dr. Sproul has produced more than three hundred lecture series and has recorded more than eighty video series on subjects such as the history of philosophy, theology, Bible study, apologetics, and Christian living.
He has contributed dozens of articles to national evangelical publications, has spoken at conferences, churches, and schools around the world, and has written more than ninety books, including The Holiness of God, Faith Alone, and Everyone's a Theologian. He signed the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and wrote a commentary on that document titled Explaining Inerrancy (now published as Can I Trust the Bible?). He also serves as general editor of The Reformation Study Bible, previously known as The New Geneva Study Bible.
Dr. Sproul was born in 1939 in Pittsburgh. He holds degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, the Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary, and he has had a distinguished academic teaching career at various colleges and seminaries, including Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and Jackson, Miss. He is ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
A little deep for my finite mind! It also feels a little like semantics, but I do love the main idea of how completely different in "existence" we are from God. It is hard to wrap my mind around how infinite, how powerful, omniscient and omnipresent God is, but this mini-lecture does a good job at bringing home the point of the difference between existence, being, becoming, creatures and God.
ReplyDeleteQuite an exegesis of the text, and a real chalkboard! I agree with Melissa that it might be a matter of semantics.
ReplyDeleteGod Exists. We can talk, argue or be philosophical, to me God exists. Look around how can doubt God's existence. ?
ReplyDeleteRC Sproul I believe will be recognized as one of the great apologists of our day. No need for apologies on that fact! I understand that he recently went to be with the Lord. Best example I heard of understanding the Trinity and compelling though the semantics went a little above my head after a long Thursday afternoon. I particularly appreciated the distinction between being and becoming. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We were definitely not the same yesterday, today, or will be the same forever until we are in a glorified state and share the same characteristics as Jesus
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