Ligonier national conference 2012 Session 1: R.C. Sproul Title: Have You Lost Your Mind? We are living in the most anti intellectual time in our history particularly in Christian living. Look at relationship of mind to body, minds to wills, and mind to hearts. Mind to body: we hear a request to raise our hands and we do so. Thats mind to body. B.F. Skinner said that we are determined totally materialistically with no will or choice whatsoever in Beyond Freedom and Dignity. The brain is material and can be measured, but our mind, our thoughts, is not the same thing as the mass of tissue inside our skull. The chief place where we live is in our minds, in our thoughts and thinking. We must not confuse the material and the mental. How can a thought produce a physical reality, and vice versa. Descartes said "I think therefore I am." Descartes also said anything that is material has extension, it can be measured. Unlike the body, the mind is not extended, it can...
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