The document provides an overview of apologetic arguments for believing in God. It discusses five main reasons to believe: the cosmological argument regarding cause and effect; the teleological argument focusing on design in the universe; the moral argument that objective moral values imply God; the prophecy argument that predictive prophecies point to God; and that human intuition about beauty, justice, immortality and utopia (heart-wiring) provides evidence. It addresses some objections and encourages reflection on how to discuss faith with others. The document contains guidance on growing deeper in one's understanding of Christianity through studying what one believes and applying the gospel.

1. Why Believe
in God

2. Growing Deep
Growing Deep
in the Gospel

3. Defending the Gospel
Defending
the Gospel

4. Why Defend the Gospel?
Why
Defend
the
Gospel?

5. Why Defend the Gospel?
1. It is one of the ways we love others.
2. It goes hand-in-hand with
evangelism.
3. To remove obstacles to belief.
4. It helps Christians to know their faith.
5. To protect the Church from heresy.
6. To follow the Biblical examples.
7. Because the Bible tells us to.

6. Why Defend the Gospel?
… always be ready to give a defense
to everyone who asks you a reason
for the hope that is in you…
1 Peter 3:15 (NKJ)

7. What is Apologetics?
It comes from a Greek word apologia
which means to give a reason or
defense.
… always be ready to give a defense
to everyone who asks you a reason
for the hope that is in you…
1 Peter 3:15 (NKJ)

8. Angry Young Man
Why Do
People
Refuse to
Believe in
God?

9. Bible

10. Why People Refuse to Believe
1. Their hearts are deceitful, wicked, darkened
and hard.
2. They love sin and darkness; hate God and
the light; want to be their own god.
3. They are alienated from God and His life.
4. Their minds are corrupt, they suppress the
truth, their thinking is futile, they are
ignorant and are enemies in their minds.
5. They are not thankful.
6. They are prideful and arrogant.
7. They are blinded by Satan.

11. Why Unbelief

12. Why Unbelief
1. Christians Behaving Badly

13. Why Unbelief
1. Christians Behaving Badly
2. Bad Things Happen

14. Why Unbelief
1. Christians Behaving Badly
2. Bad Things Happen
3. Unmet Expectations

15. Why Unbelief
1. Christians Behaving Badly
2. Bad Things Happen
3. Unmet Expectations
4. Father Problem

16. Why Unbelief
1. Christians Behaving Badly
2. Bad Things Happen
3. Unmet Expectations
4. Father Problem
5. Social Pressures

17. Why Unbelief
1. Christians Behaving Badly
2. Bad Things Happen
3. Unmet Expectations
4. Father Problem
5. Social Pressures
6. Cost of Following Jesus

18. Why Unbelief
1. Christians Behaving Badly
2. Bad Things Happen
3. Unmet Expectations
4. Father Problem
5. Social Pressures
6. Cost of Following Jesus
7. Sexual Immorality

19. What is Needed Most
A Humble, Sincere and Open Heart
…God resists the proud, but gives grace
to the humble.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the
Lord, and He will lift you up.
James 4:6, 10 (NKJ)

20. A Humble Prayer
“God, if You are real, I want You in my life.
I beg You, please open up my heart to You
and give me understanding of You and the
truth.”

21. Defending the Gospel
Defending
the Gospel

22. Why Believe?

23. Why Believe?
1. Why believe in God?

24. Why Believe?
1. Why believe in God?
2. Why believe in the Bible?

25. Why Believe?
1. Why believe in God?
2. Why believe in the Bible?
3. Why believe in Jesus?

26. Objections to Belief

27. Objections to Belief
1. Why evil and suffering?

28. Objections to Belief
1. Why evil and suffering?
2. Why hell?

29. Objections to Belief
1. Why evil and suffering?
2. Why hell?
3. What about those who
never heard about Jesus?

30. Objections to Belief
1. Why evil and suffering?
2. Why hell?
3. What about those who
never heard about Jesus?
4. Other objections

31. Why Believe
in God

32. The Goal
To show the reasonableness of
believing in God and then to
encourage those open to seek Him.

33. Seek God
But if from there you seek the Lord your
God, you will find him if you seek him with
all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 4:29 (NIV)

34. Important Considerations
Be like Jesus and ask questions as often
as possible.

35. Important Considerations
Be like Jesus and ask questions as often
as possible.
1. To understand where they are coming
from and what they believe.

36. Important Considerations
Be like Jesus and ask questions as often
as possible.
1. To understand where they are coming
from and what they believe.
2. To help them to discover the answers
for themselves.

37. Questions to Ask

38. Questions to Ask
1. What do you mean that you don’t believe in
God?

39. Questions to Ask
1. What do you mean that you don’t believe in
God?
2. Why do you believe there is no God?

40. Questions to Ask
1. What do you mean that you don’t believe in
God?
2. Why do you believe there is no God?
3. If there is no God how did the universe come
into existence?

41. Questions to Ask
1. What do you mean that you don’t believe in
God?
2. Why do you believe there is no God?
3. If there is no God how did the universe come
into existence?
4. If God was real would you want Him in your
life?

42. Questions to Ask
1. What do you mean that you don’t believe in
God?
2. Why do you believe there is no God?
3. If there is no God how did the universe come
into existence?
4. If God was real would you want Him in your
life?
5. Why are you so angry when I talk about God?

43. Important Considerations
People rejected Jesus so don’t be
surprised when they reject you and
your fine arguments and amazing
reasoning.

44. Important Considerations
Pray without ceasing! There is a
spiritual dimension to salvation.

45. Why Believe in God?

46. Why Believe in God?
1. Cosmological - Cause & Effect

47. Why Believe in God?
1. Cosmological - Cause & Effect
2. Teleological - Design

48. Why Believe in God?
1. Cosmological - Cause & Effect
2. Teleological - Design
3. Moral Law - Right & Wrong

49. Why Believe in God?
1. Cosmological - Cause & Effect
2. Teleological - Design
3. Moral Law - Right & Wrong
4. Prophecy - Predictive

50. Why Believe in God?
1. Cosmological - Cause & Effect
2. Teleological - Design
3. Moral Law - Right & Wrong
4. Prophecy - Predictive
5. Heart Wired - Intuitive Knowledge

51. Cosmological

52. Kalam Cosmological Argument

53. Kalam Cosmological Argument
1. Everything that begins to exist
must have a cause.

54. Kalam Cosmological Argument
1. Everything that begins to exist
must have a cause.
2. The universe began to exist.

55. Kalam Cosmological Argument
1. Everything that begins to exist
must have a cause.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. Therefore, the universe had a
cause.

56. Objection

57. Objection
Who or what caused God?

58. Objection
Who or what caused God?
God had no beginning so
He didn’t need a cause.

59. What God Says
The wrath of God is being revealed from
heaven against all the godlessness and
wickedness of people, who suppress the
truth by their wickedness, since what may
be known about God is plain to them,
because God has made it plain to them.
For since the creation of the world God’s
invisible qualities—his eternal power and
divine nature—have been clearly seen,
being understood from what has been
made, so that people are without excuse.
Romans 1:18-20 (NIV)

60. Teleological

61. Teleological Argument
Fine Tuning

62. Teleological Argument
Fine Tuning
1. The fine-tuning of the universe to
support life is either due to
necessity, chance or design.

63. Teleological Argument
Fine Tuning
1. The fine-tuning of the universe to
support life is either due to
necessity, chance or design.
2. It is not due to necessity or chance.

64. Teleological Argument
Fine Tuning
1. The fine-tuning of the universe to
support life is either due to
necessity, chance or design.
2. It is not due to necessity or chance.
3. Therefore, the fine-tuning is due to
design.

65. Examples of Fine Tuning

66. Examples of Fine Tuning
1. Oxygen currently makes up 21 percent of
the atmosphere. Were it 25 percent, fires
would erupt everywhere and if it were 15
percent, humans would suffocate.

67. Examples of Fine Tuning
1. Oxygen currently makes up 21 percent of
the atmosphere. Were it 25 percent, fires
would erupt everywhere and if it were 15
percent, humans would suffocate.
2. I f gravity was altered by
0.0000000000000000000000000000000000
0000001 percent, the sun would not exist
and the moon would crash into earth.
Further, if the centrifugal force of
planetary movements did not precisely
balance the gravitational forces, nothing
could be held in orbit around the sun.

68. Examples of Fine Tuning

69. Examples of Fine Tuning
3. If the universe was expanding at a
rate one millionth more slowly than it
is, the temperature on earth would be
10,000 degrees.

70. Examples of Fine Tuning
3. If the universe was expanding at a
rate one millionth more slowly than it
is, the temperature on earth would be
10,000 degrees.
4. If Jupiter was not exactly where it is,
earth would be bombarded by space
material that would threaten life on
the planet.

71. Examples of Fine Tuning

72. Examples of Fine Tuning
5. A s t r o p h y s i c i s t H u g h R o s s h a s
calculated that the odds of all anthropic
constants (122 at last count) to be in
place for any planet in the universe by
luck alone to be one chance in ten with
138 zeros after it. This number becomes
even more incredible when one realizes
there are only 1070 atoms in the entire
universe. Finally, mathematicians point
out that anything which exceeds 1050
power is the exact same thing as zero
chance.

73. What God Says
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his
hands. Day after day they pour forth
speech; night after night they reveal
knowledge. They have no speech, they
use no words; no sound is heard from
them. Yet their voice goes out into all
the earth, their words to the ends of the
world. In the heavens God has pitched
a tent for the sun.
Psalm 19:1-4 (NIV)

74. Moral

75. Moral Argument

76. Moral Argument
1. If God does not exist, objective
moral values do not exist.

77. Moral Argument
1. If God does not exist, objective
moral values do not exist.
2. Objective moral values do exist.

78. Moral Argument
1. If God does not exist, objective
moral values do not exist.
2. Objective moral values do exist.
3. Therefore, God exists.

79. What God Says
Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s
written law, show that they know his
law when they instinctively obey it,
even without having heard it. They
demonstrate that God’s law is written
in their hearts, for their own
conscience and thoughts either
accuse them or tell them they are
doing right.
Romans 2:14-15 (NLT)

80. Inferences about God
Exist outside time, immaterial (spirit),
very powerful, highly intelligent,
eternal, personal, purposeful, and
good/moral.

81. Antique Bible
Prophecy

82. Prophecy as Proof of God
“Present your case,” says the Lord. “Set
forth your arguments,” says Jacob’s
King. “Tell us, you idols, what is going to
happen. Tell us what the former things
were, so that we may consider them and
know their final outcome. Or declare to us
the things to come, tell us what the future
holds, so we may know that you are gods...
Isaiah 41:21-23 (NIV)

83. Prophecy as Proof of God

84. Prophecy as Proof of God
1. 27% of the Bible contains what
was predictive prophecy at the
time that it was written.

85. Prophecy as Proof of God
1. 27% of the Bible contains what
was predictive prophecy at the
time that it was written.
2. 8,352 verses of predictive
material out of a total of 31,124
verses

86. Prophecy as Proof of God
1. 27% of the Bible contains what
was predictive prophecy at the
time that it was written.
2. 8,352 verses of predictive
material out of a total of 31,124
verses
3. Predictive prophecies cover
1,817 events

87. Prophecy as Proof of God
Now when they have finished their testimony, the
beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them,
and overpower and kill them. Their bodies will lie in
the public square of the great city—which is
figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also
their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days
some from every people, tribe, language and nation
will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. The
inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will
celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these
two prophets had tormented those who live on the
earth. But after the three and a half days the breath
of life from God entered them, and they stood on
their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.
Revelation 11:7-11 (NIV)

88. Heart
Heart Wired

89. What God Says
He has made everything beautiful in
its time. He has also set eternity in
the human heart; yet no one can
fathom what God has done from
beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)

90. Heart Wired

91. Heart Wired
1. Beauty

92. Heart Wired
1. Beauty
2. Judgment

93. Heart Wired
1. Beauty
2. Judgment
3. Immortality

94. Heart Wired
1. Beauty
2. Judgment
3. Immortality
4. Utopia

95. Heart Wired
1. Beauty
2. Judgment
3. Immortality
4. Utopia
5. Messiah

96. Why Believe in God?
1. Cosmological - Cause & Effect
2. Teleological - Design
3. Moral - Right & Wrong
4. Prophecy - Predictive
5. Heart wired - Intuitive Knowledge

97. Judge Striking Gavel

98. Reection

99. Reection
If a friend asked you why should they
believe in God what would you do?

100. Reection
If a friend asked you why should they
believe in God what would you do?

101. Reection
If a friend asked you why should they
believe in God what would you do?
What are the main things that you
learned from this teaching that you
think will be helpful to you?

102. Grow Deep
Grow Deep!

103. Grow Deep!
Know what you believe and
why you believe it!

104. Last Word
Take a hold of
the gospel so
Jesus can take a
hold of you!

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106. Despreisus.ro
lower part

107. Why Jesus Came