Renewing Your Mind I AM: The Aseity of God
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Sep 20, 2025 
In this enlightening discussion, R.C. Sproul, a renowned theologian and founder of Ligonier Ministries, delves into the profound doctrine of God’s aseity. He argues against the idea of self-creation, outlining why it’s logically impossible. Sproul connects God’s necessary existence with the philosophical insights of Thomas Aquinas, emphasizing how God, as the ultimate 'I AM,' is transcendent and self-existent. He also critiques modern cosmological theories that attempt to explain existence without God, revealing deeper moral motivations behind such beliefs.
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Self-Creation Is Logically Impossible
- Self-creation is a logical impossibility because something cannot exist before it exists.
- R.C. Sproul explains this violates the law of non-contradiction and is therefore absurd.
Only Eternity Avoids Logical Collapse
- If anything exists now, three generic options remain: eternal, self-created, or created by something eternal.
- Sproul argues only the eternal option avoids logical impossibility and thus something must be eternal.
Astrophysicist On The Universe 'Exploding' Into Being
- Sproul recounts hearing an astrophysicist claim the universe 'exploded into being' from nothing 15–17 billion years ago.
- He uses this to illustrate how some scientists implicitly assert something came from nothing, violating ex nihilo nihil fit.
