What Is Chance?: Creation or Chaos with R.C. Sproul

It is nonsensical to claim the universe was caused “by chance,” as this turns chance into a magical force that has the power to create reality. Whenever people say an event has taken place “by chance,” they’re merely expressing their ignorance about how it occurred. In this message, R.C. Sproul helps us understand why it’s impossible for reality to be either caused or ruled by chance.
This message is from Dr. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series Creation or Chaos. Learn more: www.ligonier.o...

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This message is from Dr. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series Creation or Chaos. Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/creation-or-chaos/

[@denonjoka8848]

Thanks Ligonier Ministries & May Our Great Almighty God Bless Yu So Very Much & May He Lead Yu All The Time.🙏

[@JoshuaMSOG7]

My favorite theologian & Christian besides William lane Craig. God bless them🙏🏻

[@harveynailbanger]

Really respect rc's teachings. I have learned much from him. It occurs to me that the idea of "chance" and the understanding of it depends wholly on ones perspective and understanding of the other possible perspectives. There is a meme that illustrates the difference between true and truth. It is simply a cylinder with lights shining on and casting shadows from two different angles. One shadow is a circle, the other is a rectangle. Both shadows are true. But the cylinder is truth... In that regard the understanding of chance would depend upon your observation of it from two possible vantage points. The first as a man confined by our position in time, able to see the past with the future hidden by our limitations of time. Chance disappears when those limitations are removed. Only God has this perspective, so what we call chance applies to something that in our perspective has not yet happened. With Gods perspective chance does not exist...

[@segundobolo5137]

RC is a wonderful Man of God! Praise God for him..

[@andreastruble]

I’m thankful all who are faithful by providing the means for this ministry to continue to bless many fellow believers! Amen 🙏

[@MrPatdeeee]

"To Hell (literally) with Evilution" Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: I rest my case! In any case, Please Pray and Praise Jesus OFTEN; for He is the ONLY true "God Almighty"; there will ever have been. And may Jesus bless you and yours always. AMEN!

[@DixieDee]

Amen! Heck, if "evilution" was true, and our brains are nothing more than the result of random processes over millions and millions of years; HOW in the Pluperfect Hallelujah could the "evilutionist" trust his own thought process? Hahaha.

[@123dsj123]

About 7 or 8 years ago, I used to listen to Dr. RC Sproul’s radio broadcasts early in the morning around 4 a.m. while I was driving to work in a distant suburb from Minneapolis. About half-way through his broadcast, I would be outside of the city, and would lose radio signals. That is when I began to buy his messages on CD’s. I enjoy his teachings. I am so glad his viewership on KZbin is increasing.

[@larainehruby1376]

Excuse me, but I think that Eve wasn’t in the picture yet when Adam “named” all the animals. I don’t have time to look it up right now because I’m fixing dinner. But if I remember correctly, through the process of taxonomy, it was decided that Adam NEEDED a special partner so THE CREATOR did what HE DOES to fix that problem. Aren’t we glad!?⁉️

[@matthewjames9209]

Really enjoyed that. Brilliant insight

[@jessyjonas4988]

" Ephraim is joined to idols Let him alone" Hosea 4:17✝️ The reprobate mind Is incapable of understanding the truth of God's word. Such a mind lives in chance and chaos

[@Ch3rishtheday]

I love him!

[@enoch3874]

Out of nothing comes nothing as in no-thing which is not even a little something but in instead nothing. I'm pretty sure Mr sproul talks about nothing a lot more in one of the other sermons from the 70s or so........I like when he talks about nothing. I like my nothing to be nothing but when a naturalist materialist worldview type talks about nothing their version of it always turns out to be something which frustrates me.

[@chikaokolo4929]

Spontaneous refers to a chemical rxn that occurs naturally without input of energy. It is a reaction that releases energy, such as a bonfire. It has nothing to do with speed the reaction occurs. RC is still correct, bc for an expansion such as the "Big Bang" (supernova) to occur, it would have had to have a stimulus. So the big bang theory is just begging the question of how can a reaction occur without an outside force. Or a better question is where did the singularity come from?...This is all just a theory that allows someone to push backcreated

[@JohnMoog-ug6bk]

Natural science, biology in particular, starts out as taxonomy but progresses to generate predictions that can be tested empirically. Lack of empirical testing renders it mere speculation or navel gazing, or especially today, glorified ideology.

[@denonjoka8848]

Thanks R. C. Sproul *4 Yur Powerful, Blessful, Deep Teaching on "What Is Chance ? Creation or Chaos" Where I Say Thru Our Great Almighty God's Word, There Is Nothing Like That Creation Happened By Chance 4 Our Great Almighty God's Word Says That Our Great Almighty God Created The Heavens & The 🌎 4 The 🌎 Is The Lord's & The Fullness Thereof Written In Genesis 1:1 & 1st Corinthians 10:26 4 The Late R. C. Sproul Is Veryyyyyy Ryt 4 Our Great Almighty God Created The Earth & The Universe & That The Universe Never Exploded In2 Being* & R. C. Sproul Is Missed So Very Much 4 I Say That May Our Great Almighty God Bless The Late R. C. Sproul & Ligonier Ministries So Very Much 4 I Have Been Blessed.🙏🙏🕊️

[@jaywoodson2231]

RC was simply brilliant!

[@TheHolinessofGODSproul]

I Can’t Do It Alone 😅😍

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[@ryana1787]

He says time is not a thing. Einstein and all resulting predictions prove that’s incorrect.

[@GuessterS]

What a bunch of nothing x nothing = nothing. Great talk. Thanks for the post! No sarcasm

[@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921]

Please share my two brief videos with other people. Thank you!

[@MikeAcousticMusic]

Simply said Thank you.

[@andreastruble]

thank you!

[@StevenChristopherTV]

Brilliant.

[@JohnQPublic11]

Chance is the unfortunate luck of the draw, that happened prior to Creation, when the sovereign Calvinist God decreed to predestine the randomly chosen non-elect goats to Hell for no known reason other than so he could barbecue them for his own good selfish glory.

[@SednovaNova]

What if God wanting to show his majesty and mercy of his own Supreme Will and Power. Created us beings for the specific purpose of Him receiving worship for His Mercy and Grace and everything he created. All the Angels (Sons of God) praised him after creation. The King deems who is worthy for Glory to Glory and those who "were" not of us to destruction. The Potter has power over the clay. Enter the King of the Universe's Courts to complain to an Almighty power God and Jesus the King of Kings what your morality is in the universe is. Go to another country and tell a king how to run his moral system. You will find yourself no longer among the living. Common sense should kick in. You do not have the cards in the universe. The Almighty God, has every right to do "ALL HIS PLEASURE". Praise Him for His Word and His Mercy.

[@Soli_Deo_Gloria_.]

Leightonists argue like atheists.

[@JohnQPublic11]

@@Soli_Deo_Gloria_. --- Thank you for agreeing with the OP.

[@JohnQPublic11]

@@SednovaNova --- YOU: >>>>> “What if God …..” ME: >>>>> Nobody disagrees with the fact that Creator GOD is all powerful and has the authority to do what HE wants; that’s a non sequitur. I’m not talking about the GOD of the Bible; I’m talking about the man-made hate-filled fairy tale Reformed Theology Calvinist God; the one you are so accurately describing in your comment. So I’m glad we’re on the same page. Your man-made sovereign Calvinist God *IS NOT* majestic, or merciful, or full of grace. The problem with your man-made sovereign Calvinist God is that he *IS NOT* the greatest possible GOD; your God is mean and puny. Your man-made sovereign Calvinist God *IS* an *impersonal, whimsical, hateful, discriminatory, unjust, merciless, selfish, sadistic, monster of mindless robots; who barbecues invincibly ignorant innocent people in Hell for no known plausible reason other than the fulfillment of his own good selfish glory and his own good sadistic pleasure!!!!!* .

[@Mikael5732]

@@JohnQPublic11 That is of course, your opinion.