Reliability of Sense Perception: Defending Your Faith with R.C. Sproul

Summary

This sermon examines the philosophical challenge posed by David Hume to the law of causality, specifically how we know that one event causes another. Hume argued that we only observe customary or contiguous relationships between events, not actual causal forces, illustrating this with examples like rain and wet grass or a pool ball collision. The practical takeaway is that while we assume causality for scientific inquiry and everyday life, understanding Hume's critique helps us recognize the philosophical underpinnings and potential limitations of our empirical observations.