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R.C. Sproul

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18705 total appearances

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Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

There's no final ultimate reality, no ultimate being who is at the top of the level of being.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

There's no God.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

There's no self-existent eternal being.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Nothing is in a state of being.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Everything is in a state of becoming.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Everything is in a state of transition.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

There is nothing permanent, nothing ultimate, only transitory mutations change.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

So we have no absolute being.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

What else must be faced?

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

What about absolute value?

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Huh?

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

There can be no absolute value in terms of that which we value because there are no absolutes.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

So if there's no ultimate value, if there's no value in the sense of capital V-A-L-U-E, then the next implication is can there really be secondary values?

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

If there's no such thing as absolute value,

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Singular.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Can there be values?

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Plural.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Wouldn't seem logical.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Certainly not absolutely.

Renewing Your Mind
Are There Absolutes?

Anything that's called a value or considered to be valuable can only be done so on an arbitrary, capricious, and subjective basis.