Defend Your Faith Lesson No. Two - A Rational Explanation of God's Existence
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This is the second powerpoint presentation in our ongoing Bible class series, "Defend Your Faith - A Study of Christian Evidences."
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Defend Your Faith Lesson No. Two - A Rational Explanation of God's Existence
- 1. Defend Your Faith A Study in Christian Evidences
- 2. Lesson No. Two A Rational Explanation of God’s Existence
- 3. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. - Albert Einstein
- 4. First Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. (c) ESV
- 5. Psalm 139:14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. (c) NKJV
- 6. Did God Create? Genesis 1-2 says “Yes!” However it is not a scientific textbook that answers all the questions we might ask about our world and its formation. Can our faith in God rest in the Bible only? Yes! Does science have to sufficiently “fill-in-the-blanks” when God doesn’t specifically answer our questions? No!
- 7. Creation Thoughts Cosmological = God caused life Teleological = Design equals intelligence Morality = The Conscience of Humanity Ontological = Why? Why not!
- 8. Cosmological Something caused or continuously causes the universe to exist, and this first cause is God. All life we can observe has a beginning, God does not. So He is the first cause of all life. See Psa 19:1; Rom 1:18-20.
- 9. Teleological If there is order and arrangement then there is design. If there is design there must be a designer. Definitions Order = Regularity (24 hrs in a day) Arrangement = Parts work together Design = Purpose (Not w/o intelligence)
- 10. Morality If the morality of an individual or a society can be criticized as to being right or wrong, then there must be a standard higher than the morality we create. God is the real, objective standard above our morality. So God exists.
- 11. Ontological How could a being have the concept of God without God existing? He couldn’t and wouldn’t, so God exists.
- 12. Defend Your Faith A Study in Christian Evidences