Is There a God?: Silencing the Devil with R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner

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  • čas přidán 28. 02. 2019
  • How many times have you heard atheists say that they do not believe in God because they believe in the Big Bang theory? Somewhere in that reasoning are unchallenged assumptions about the matter, or material, that makes up the universe. Is matter eternal like some suppose? Can it produce intelligence? In this mock debate between Dr. Sproul and Dr. John Gerstner, they look at the question, “Is There a God?”
    This is the 2nd in a series of messages by Dr. Sproul and Dr. Gerstner on apologetics. See other videos in the series: • Silencing the Devil - ...

Komentáře • 91

  • @Muzicboy3
    @Muzicboy3 Před 2 lety +18

    “Give or take a couple weeks”
    - R.C. Sproul

  • @toughbiblepassages9082
    @toughbiblepassages9082 Před rokem +9

    What most atheists don’t appreciate about cosmological classical apologetics, is that it does not posit God as a hypothesis for the creation of the universe.. but rather deductively builds up the properties of this first cause, where it’s properties are built up to the point that merits the term “God”. God is not merely submitted as an explanation, but is discovered in the inquiry.

    • @ryanprosper88
      @ryanprosper88 Před 7 měsíci +1

      This is how Jesus built His ministry. He never outright claimed to be God, He just acted in such a way that it would draw people to the obvious conclusion.

  • @rolysantos
    @rolysantos Před 2 lety +24

    Wow! I started listening to Sproul in 1995, but I've never seen or heard John Gerstner. Now I see that all these years R.C. Sproul was emmulating his mentor. Immitation is the sincerist form of flattery.

    • @mitchebe
      @mitchebe Před rokem +3

      I put a baptism lecture on while I was doing a job at home and for the first few minutes, I was like "wait, I didn't not click on R.C. Sproul." Went back to my phone and it's this John Gerstner guy. I bet myself 100 bucks he taught Sproul and I just found this out to be correct. Everything about their speech is identical!

  • @jasonanderson4915
    @jasonanderson4915 Před 2 lety +10

    Yikes! Can you imagine unknowingly debating one of these two men about ANYTHING?
    They'd have me in a corner in two minutes.

  • @KRH1997
    @KRH1997 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Thank you so much for this! Appreciate having access to these videos! Praise be to God through Christ Jesus!❤

  • @robertbyamugisha5824
    @robertbyamugisha5824 Před 3 lety +20

    These mock debates,regarding biblical truth are what I enjoy,Thank God Almighty for such explosive wisdom

  • @guitarplayer1434
    @guitarplayer1434 Před 10 měsíci +2

    his look of disdain and this debate is beneath me is so spot on

  • @bonniemock3110
    @bonniemock3110 Před 2 lety +9

    Gerstner held steady and strong. RC is very clever in playing the opposing view.

  • @Sincerelychinmom
    @Sincerelychinmom Před 3 lety +13

    What a wonderful & funny debate! Two great theologians & man of God!🙏

  • @ricardomapmaker
    @ricardomapmaker Před rokem +2

    Sería excelente tener este debate en español

  • @minniemead9689
    @minniemead9689 Před 5 lety +16

    Thank you for sharing. Lord God thank You for these two giant men of the faith. Excellent mocking debate🙏🏼🤗

  • @fiveSolas879
    @fiveSolas879 Před 3 lety +35

    Sproul is comedic genius! ".....give or take a cpl of weeks"

    • @bonniemock3110
      @bonniemock3110 Před 2 lety +4

      Ha! I laughed when he said that. RC was one of a kind!

  • @williamiannucci2740
    @williamiannucci2740 Před 3 lety +1

    I Love you Fellows and seeing you passed on RC Sproul to be with God in person through Christ on the good side of the river or gulf do to the One who paid in full for our sin debt owed unto the FATHER by the one who not only died for our error and sin but rose according to the Holy Scriptures and for our justification, I find it in me by him of time past and present and to come by saying hello and believe you can now hear me according to Faith and I believe for it is true and that I can't wait to see also my creator who shall in a time to come and yet is already here hello my Lord and brother RC for to be absent from the body said Paul mine APOSTLE is to be present with the Lord and I believe your with him . Again for the greater good and for the greatest Gift which is LOVE and I Love you because he being God in the flesh he first LOVED me to allow me to be made whole and alive in the flesh even though for now the sin in this flesh troubleth my soul but not forever for we are being clothed with the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God the Lord in Christ for JESUS is the very CHRIST God with us now in the Spirit of the Father and to come EVERLASTING Life without Sin in which we will call him Daddy to be in the presents of GOD without being burned for he is an consuming fire for for a New body all the Saved will receive on that day thus we are the CHURCH the body of Christ . SHALOM Amen and AMEN. 👍

  • @Logos007
    @Logos007 Před 4 lety +2

    love this videos

  • @ropanueva
    @ropanueva Před 2 lety +2

    I love these debates.

  • @will95515
    @will95515 Před 3 lety +5

    Sproul, what a talented brother.

  • @jscott1622
    @jscott1622 Před 3 lety +5

    This is a good video in every way I could describe something as Good

  • @goldenstar7400
    @goldenstar7400 Před 3 lety +2

    I love these debates I listen to these many times over and over. I guess in the end it's up to finding out the truth when it's all over and done with one side will be right and the other side wrong. Either there is a God or there isn't. I would never use the so called law I d causality or the first cause in an argument because, if we postulate that there is no God, then obviously for the universe to exist now then it had to have always existed in some form or another as it cannot be it's own cause.

  • @iglesiacristianadavar9859
    @iglesiacristianadavar9859 Před 9 měsíci

    por favor, traduzcan estos videos y pasenlos al canal en español de ligonier

  • @brendatajik6150
    @brendatajik6150 Před 4 lety +12

    Thank God for faithful Christian men like these. (Bro. Sproul had Pentecostal hair back then! 😉)

  • @florenciaacosta6411
    @florenciaacosta6411 Před 3 lety +2

    Por favor subanlo en español, es una gran pérdida.

  • @brantgentry1463
    @brantgentry1463 Před rokem +2

    How can anyone use logic for science without God. Without God the biblical one, we know and are nothing. That isn't what I believe it is what I know. I know because at the end of the questions Without him we only have absurdity and idiocy.

  • @warrenrandazzo5066
    @warrenrandazzo5066 Před 5 lety +5

    Awesome thank you !

  • @jus2bme02
    @jus2bme02 Před 2 lety +3

    It's like watching two Sprouls, love it

    • @lufhopespeacefully2037
      @lufhopespeacefully2037 Před 2 lety

      why doesn`t trinity appears in bible,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..............................

    • @jus2bme02
      @jus2bme02 Před 2 lety

      @@lufhopespeacefully2037 it does just not the word, you have, the Father, the Son and the Holy spirit these three are one

    • @bjornegan6421
      @bjornegan6421 Před 11 měsíci

      @@lufhopespeacefully2037 do you believe the Bible is the true Scripture of God?

  • @johnnyangel1455
    @johnnyangel1455 Před 2 lety +2

    Big bang theory. There was a bang. It was big. And it was there for all eternity. 🤣

  • @andypatscot7737
    @andypatscot7737 Před rokem

    What year was this recorded?

  • @apologetikaeksklusif
    @apologetikaeksklusif Před 3 lety

    Shalom,
    Can Reupload to Video?

  • @joelhamilton6720
    @joelhamilton6720 Před rokem

    Praise God

  • @martinshannon7632
    @martinshannon7632 Před 2 lety

    Brilliant, thanks

  • @ElianaRodriguez-uh1wd

    En Español por favor..... Dios les bendiga mucho.

  • @loucontino4804
    @loucontino4804 Před 3 lety +1

    The Big Bang moved into motion that which was not in motion. In order for that to happen, a cause that was unchanged prior to The Big Bang catalyzed that motion. That Unchanged Cause is GOD.

  • @TertulianodeCartago
    @TertulianodeCartago Před 4 lety +2

    Please in Spanish

  • @JimL2883
    @JimL2883 Před 2 lety +1

    It’s troubling to see folks idolizing RC. He did teach most things very well. But he was a man. He loved his new Mercedes. He was less than nice to some like Van Til and Bahnsen who had better methods of apology. Yet people put him on a pedestal.
    By the way, this is nothing more than a battle of intellect. Not everyone has this education. The starting point always has to be God. You cannot prove anything apart from God.

    • @bjornegan6421
      @bjornegan6421 Před 11 měsíci

      can you prove your statement is correct?

  • @tgrogan6049
    @tgrogan6049 Před rokem

    I notice that Sproul and Gerstner didn’t have the stones to debate real atheists! 😢

    • @bjornegan6421
      @bjornegan6421 Před 11 měsíci

      what kind of response are you looking for

    • @tgrogan6049
      @tgrogan6049 Před 11 měsíci

      @@bjornegan6421 How about debating someone real.

  • @TertulianodeCartago
    @TertulianodeCartago Před 3 lety

    Please in Spanish....Thank you!

  • @iglesiacristianadavar9859
    @iglesiacristianadavar9859 Před 9 měsíci

    please, translate this video to spanish

  • @KhepraPuHeru
    @KhepraPuHeru Před 3 měsíci

    This is not a debate. LOL

  • @christophersamuel2157
    @christophersamuel2157 Před 3 lety +2

    Hahaha this is amazing.

  • @412encom
    @412encom Před 2 lety

    I really just don’t know anymore.

  • @josenuqui112
    @josenuqui112 Před 3 lety

    There is a God who is in heaven, There is an reading from the bible, You all become to me!! So is it right the christian religion is the only right one to have

  • @orenthalgainer5468
    @orenthalgainer5468 Před 3 lety +3

    THE LORD SAID ONLY A FOOL DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD... THE devil WILL ALSO QUESTION ABOUT GOD.. EVERYONE WILL SEE HIM IN THE END.

    • @thunderpooch
      @thunderpooch Před 2 lety

      Whatever

    • @jesusfollowerswomenministries
      @jesusfollowerswomenministries Před 2 lety

      @@thunderpooch We all will meet the one true and only God the Holy Creator one day ( Hebrews 9;27) and He's being merciful by giving us all time to get right with Him before judgement day, because when judgement day comes you get no second chances. God came as Jesus in the flesh to go and pay our sin debt on the cross, we deserve hell we deserve to take our punishment but in His great love and mercy He took our punishment and sins to the cross. He died and paid for our sin debt in full ( John 19:30) then God the Father rose Jesus on the third day with glory and power and triumph and He conquered hell, sin, death, satan, the world. Jesus broke down the wall that separated us from Him so we can come to Him and be saved and have a relationship with Him. believe and repent of your sins and God will forgive and cleanse you and make you born again by His Holy Spirit ( John 3). today is the day of salvation, you don't know what day or hour or minute or even the second you'll die. Heaven is eternal and hell is eternal as well. Jesus is the only way to Heaven He's the only way we can be saved from sin and from hell ( John 14, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9-14). don't choose sin over the Holy loving God. come to Jesus! believe and repent ( 1 Cor 6:9-10, Romans 3:23, John 3:15-18, Rom 10:9-14, NKJV).

  • @singwithpowerinfo5815
    @singwithpowerinfo5815 Před 2 lety +1

    Of course there’s not.

  • @michaelperez1455
    @michaelperez1455 Před 2 lety +1

    I CAN PROVE GOD IS REAL ...JOHN CHAPTER 3 OF THE GOSPEL IS A SUPER NATURAL EXPERIENCE ..
    ACTS 5/32 GOD GIVES THE HOLY SPIRIT ONLY TO THOSE WHO OBEY HIM
    BOOK OF JUDE SAYS THIS ....
    16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
    17But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
    18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
    19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

    • @edwardlongfellow5819
      @edwardlongfellow5819 Před 2 lety

      Michael Perez
      Prove God real? Actually, that is the one sure thing that you cannot do! And why do you quote from the Gospel of John when it is not an eyewitness account, the actual author of the writings being unknown?

  • @gregjones2217
    @gregjones2217 Před 6 měsíci

    There is no credible proof of any god anywhere at any time.

    • @Pyr0Ben
      @Pyr0Ben Před 6 měsíci

      What proof would be good enough for you??
      Do you want him to spell out your name in the stars? You wouldn't look, the stars proclaim his majesty every day.
      Do you want him to leave his intelligent signature on every cell, every atom in existence? Would you then admit that he must've created the world?
      What if he did something more subtle, like come down to earth, perform miracles, raise others and himself from the dead to prove his power?
      No, not good enough you say? Your choice.

  • @tgrogan6049
    @tgrogan6049 Před rokem +2

    Instead of debating a real atheist debate, a fake atheist sounds fair to me!😂😂😂

    • @tgrogan6049
      @tgrogan6049 Před rokem

      @@thekingofthings2002 I think actual atheists are quite capable!

    • @completoencristo
      @completoencristo Před 6 měsíci

      Did you learn anything at least ?

  • @edwardlongfellow5819
    @edwardlongfellow5819 Před 3 lety +3

    The only god that we know is the one created by man!

    • @rockycomet4587
      @rockycomet4587 Před 2 lety +1

      Prove it.

    • @edwardlongfellow5819
      @edwardlongfellow5819 Před 2 lety

      @@rockycomet4587
      I speak of course of Jehovah, the god of the Israelites-Jehovah the the warlord who commanded the taking of other lands by force of arms. Clearly no super intelligent supernatural being but rather the figurehead of a violent people. A study of the Old Testament reveals the stupidity of his supposed actions. His failures as a god reveal his fictional status.

    • @jesusfollowerswomenministries
      @jesusfollowerswomenministries Před 2 lety +1

      Not true. the only God that's the one true God is the one that is self existing self sufficient Sovereign uncreated Supreme Lord of all and His name is Jesus Christ get to know Him, We all will meet the one true and only God the Holy Creator one day ( Hebrews 9;27) and He's being merciful by giving us all time to get right with Him before judgement day, because when judgement day comes you get no second chances. God came as Jesus in the flesh to go and pay our sin debt on the cross, we deserve hell we deserve to take our punishment but in His great love and mercy He took our punishment and sins to the cross. He died and paid for our sin debt in full ( John 19:30) then God the Father rose Jesus on the third day with glory and power and triumph and He conquered hell, sin, death, satan, the world. Jesus broke down the wall that separated us from Him so we can come to Him and be saved and have a relationship with Him. believe and repent of your sins and God will forgive and cleanse you and make you born again by His Holy Spirit ( John 3). today is the day of salvation, you don't know what day or hour or minute or even the second you'll die. Heaven is eternal and hell is eternal as well. Jesus is the only way to Heaven He's the only way we can be saved from sin and from hell ( John 14, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9-14). don't choose sin over the Holy loving God. come to Jesus! believe and repent ( 1 Cor 6:9-10, Romans 3:23, John 3:15-18, Rom 10:9-14, NKJV).

    • @edwardlongfellow5819
      @edwardlongfellow5819 Před 2 lety

      @@jesusfollowerswomenministries
      When you say God/Jesus paid our debts on the cross, I would ask to whom do we owe or owed a debt?

    • @byronjones6420
      @byronjones6420 Před 2 lety +1

      @@edwardlongfellow5819 God

  • @GGGNVideos
    @GGGNVideos Před 5 lety +4

    No. There is no God.
    But do not fear. There is no devil either.

    • @RocketRodCub
      @RocketRodCub Před 5 lety +6

      Just as the devil hopes you will conclude. There is no evil either (so some liberal atheists believe because once they concede evil then there must be a source or origin - what is it?)

    • @GGGNVideos
      @GGGNVideos Před 5 lety +1

      @@RocketRodCub Well, there certainly are things like reason, morale, ethics. These are man-made rules, and yes, humans have the opportunity to have or make up or even change their scale of what might be ethically okay and what not.
      But that doesn't make that fact any less important or valuable.

    • @ronbateman72
      @ronbateman72 Před 5 lety +5

      Prove it.

    • @AllNikoNoLai
      @AllNikoNoLai Před 4 lety

      @@RocketRodCub The source and origin of evil tends to start with logical absolutes. Virtue ethics is one such example. And then it gets into subjective and experiential territory which no human being is exempt from. This goes for both atheists and theists. Only it's rare for theists to admit that their idea of "evil" comes from any social experience because they'll point to a deity (which is the product of social rituals and traditions, etc.). From the theist standpoint it would beg the question of what part of our actions and beliefs Isn't social? It's a murky area.
      That said, the Christian's biggest trick, is convincing people that the devil's biggest trick is to convince people he doesn't exist (which is kind of virtuous for someone THAT narcissistic and evil tbh, even if it's for a few minutes).

    • @zaprowsdower
      @zaprowsdower Před 4 lety +3

      Captain Kooky does not want to spend eternity gnashing his teeth all alone ---he commented here looking for pals to join him and it looks as though he found some? Why not stick to watching Darwin's Doubt or other scientifically enlightening media since you relish only being eventual worm food?