Sinclair Ferguson

And this means that atheists can never really be consistent with their first principles, or at least the first principles they profess to have.

They must always be borrowing from the implications of the existence of God and His revelation.

They must always be borrowing from the implications of the existence of God and His revelation.

Otherwise, nothing makes sense.

Otherwise, nothing makes sense.

Nothing is ultimately explicable.

Nothing is ultimately explicable.

Our lives fail to make sense.

Our lives fail to make sense.

Our loves fail to make sense.

Our loves fail to make sense.

And we have to make up everything as we go along.

And we have to make up everything as we go along.

Now, I think it's important to see nobody can actually live consistently with that presupposition.

Now, I think it's important to see nobody can actually live consistently with that presupposition.

Nobody lives that way.

Nobody lives that way.

If you think for 10 minutes about living that way in which nothing makes sense, in which there is no foundation for rationality, I think you will soon be driven to despair.

If you think for 10 minutes about living that way in which nothing makes sense, in which there is no foundation for rationality, I think you will soon be driven to despair.

But there's something else I think that we need to know, and that is that atheists are all inconsistent.