R.C. Sproul

He comes out of nothing, and he is destined to what the existentialists call non-being, to nothingness.

His origin is in nothingness and meaninglessness.

His destiny is in meaninglessness.

How can you possibly assign dignity in between?

Do you feel the weight of that?

Can you even give me any philosophical reason why I should give a rip about human beings?

They have no dignity.

They're meaningless beings.

You see, the only alternative for me to absolutes is to sleep in tomorrow morning.

That's the only alternative for any thinking person.

That's why Sartre came to the conclusion that life is a useless passion.

And his one little book, tiny little book, where he gave perhaps his final comment on the significance of humanity, he entitled the book Nausea.

That's a kind of consistency.

But then even Sartre resorts to preaching from time to time and starts trying to assert certain values because even he can't live in the context of meaninglessness.

Immanuel Kant...

who gave such a massive critique of the traditional arguments for the existence of God based upon reason and empirical data, after he said that we can have no theoretical knowledge of God, we cannot demonstrate the existence of God intellectually or scientifically, Kant himself did not repudiate the notion of the existence of God.

He substituted for his theoretical

argument for the existence of God, a practical argument for the existence of God.

And Kant's argument for the existence of God has since become known as the moral argument for the existence of God, in which Kant says, we must live as if there were a God.

We must live as if there were a God.