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sermonsRENEWING YOUR MIND (LIGONIER) · AUG 31 · scored AUG 28

Two Ways of Knowing

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1 Corinthians 15:3-8 (BSB)
The blindspotwhat the coverage leaves out

Certainty by the Spirit, not senses alone

The teaching rightly grounds resurrection faith in real testimony, but does not mention the Spirit's inward witness that grants believers assurance beyond empirical or syllogistic certainty. Faith rests not only on evidence weighed but on the Spirit confirming the Word to the heart.

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Romans 8:16 (BSB)

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1 Corinthians 2:14 (BSB)

OUR READING

Christian confidence rests not on perfect senses or airtight syllogisms but on a reliable God who speaks truly through eyewitnesses and his Word.

Persuasion techniques and doctrinal guardrails

appeal to authority
From the pulpit
Renewing Your Mind (Ligonier) · reformed, preaching ministry
Biblical alignmentStrongly Aligned · 86
0 · Scripturally Misaligned100 · Strongly Aligned
Full biblical analysis

Themes · faith and reason · resurrection evidence · epistemology · reliability of Scripture · apologetics

Christaffirms

The resurrection is presented as a real, historically witnessed, bodily event, not myth or abstraction.

Humanityaffirms

Human perception is treated as reliable yet limited, explicitly tied to finitude and fallen nature.

Scriptureaffirms

Scripture's testimony is grounded in eyewitness observation and treated as trustworthy divine revelation.

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1 Corinthians 15:3-8 (BSB)

OUR NOTE

Grounds the sermon's claim that the resurrection rests on a body of eyewitness testimony.

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2 Peter 1:16 (BSB)

OUR NOTE

Directly parallels the sermon's point that the apostles did not follow cleverly devised myths but eyewitness fact.

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John 20:27-29 (BSB)

OUR NOTE

Engages the same tension between sight, evidence, and faith that the sermon explores philosophically.
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