R.C. Sproul

Anything else by comparison is really a pretense.

All other claims to deity pale into insignificance in comparison with Elohim, in whom all of the characteristics and all of the attributes, all of the facets, all of the fullness of deity dwells.

As we continue our study now of the names and the titles of God, we're concerned at this point with names and titles for God the Father.

And what I would like to do now is ask you, if you are in a position, if you're not driving a car somewhere, but if you're in a place where you can reach into your pocket and pull out a coin, any coin, a quarter, a nickel, a dime, whatever, I want you to look at that coin for just a second and see if you can find anything

A Latin phrase on that coin.

I think you know what Latin phrase we're looking for.

If we don't know anything about that ancient language, and though it may be archaic and even intimidating to us, we leave Latin to the doctors and to the lawyers and to the philosophers and so on.

But the one Latin phrase it seems like everyone in America is familiar with is the one that's on our coins because it's the motto for our nation.

E pluribus unum.

What does that phrase mean, e pluribus unum?

I think most of us know the answer to that question.

It's from many one.

Well, that question, e pluribus unum, from the many one, is a question not only of culture, but it's one of the most profound questions of all time.

Some of you are familiar with the program that ran on television for a long time, hosted by the noted astronomer, physicist, and author Carl Sagan.

And the name of his program was called Cosmos.

And Professor Sagan wrote a book by the same title.

And at the very beginning of that book, which is called Cosmos, he makes the statement that the universe in which we live is indeed a cosmos and not a chaos.

Now, what was Professor Sagan getting at?

What does he mean when he says we live in a cosmos and not in a chaos?

What's the difference between the two?