R.C. Sproul

I, I alone can say I am who I am.

Because I alone have the very power to be intrinsically.

It's not borrowed.

It's not derived.

It's not gained or gotten from some other source.

But I am eternally whoever is, is.

That's what Parmenides was getting at.

He's saying, if anything exists in this world, Parmenides is saying, if anything has any limited degree of being, a human being, a creaturely being, a dependent being, a finite being, for any of that to be at all, for there to be being somewhere, somehow, something, someone must be.

I mean, people argue all the time about whether God exists.

I mean, to think about this for 15 seconds would answer the question, if nothing had the power of being within itself, nothing could possibly be.

But if something is, then someone is.

And I say it again, if something is...

than someone is.

Someone is in a pure state of absolute being.

There can be no human being, there can be no earthly being without Supreme Being, without someone whose name is I Am.

who I am.

The other word we use for this is a technical term.

I'll just give it to you.

You can write it down.

You can forget it if you want to.