R.C. Sproul

We don't believe that.

I said, okay.

Let me ask another question.

How many of you would candidly describe yourselves as atheists?

Again, no persecution going to be taking place here.

How many of you would call yourself atheists?

Nobody put up their hand.

And I immediately went into my Lieutenant Columbo routine, you know.

It's just one thing I don't understand here, you know.

And I said, I don't understand atheism.

Why, those of you who did say that you did not believe in this statement didn't raise your hand when I asked you if you were atheists.

Well, I mean, there was a hue and cry.

I was ready to be lynched.

They said, what are you talking about?

Just because we don't believe that God freely and immutably ordains whatsoever comes to pass, you're calling us atheists?

I said, that's exactly what I'm calling you.

that if you don't believe that God ordains everything that comes to pass, bottom line, you don't believe in God.

You don't believe in God.

I said, you have to understand that this passage here in the confession that God ordains everything that comes to pass, there's not anything in that statement that is uniquely Presbyterian.

There's not even anything in there that's uniquely Christian.