R.C. Sproul

Sproul, but nobody cared about the one who's speaking to you now.

Do you know why?

There wasn't any R.C.

Sproul.

R.C.

Sproul didn't exist.

The world was getting along fine without me.

I didn't know anything.

about the world and the world didn't know anything about me because I was not.

But then in February of 1939, my mother delivered a baby at Southside Hospital in Pittsburgh and called him RC.

I started, actually I started when I was conceived, but

My life began in this world on my birthday.

But before that, I was not.

Then I began to exist.

The one thing I know about you, even if I don't know your name, is that there was a time when you were not.

There was a time when you did not exist.

And that if you exist now, you have a beginning.

You exist and your existence is real, even though it's changing from moment to moment, from day to day, from year to year, you change.

You see, you go through all those changes because...

Really, it'd be more proper, as the old philosophers used to say, to describe us not as human beings, but as human becomeings.