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A Series of Lessons made for the Edification
for the Northside Church of Christ.July 6/2014
Eric C
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Our ThemeFor this month:
DOES GOD EXIST
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• Roughly 15-16% of world’s population is atheist or non-religious (humanist, agnostic, etc.)
• In United States and Canada, that number is 3-9% - 2nd largest religious group. And growing!
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• Today we live in times where we need to be able to answer this question (1 Pet. 3:15)
• Both education institutions and media barrage our youth with questioning God.
• Society is trying to ban Him everywhere. God is not allowed in many places today!
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• Our children are leaving home often without answers or resources to answer.
• We cannot sweep this under the carpet.
• Questions not answered well do not go away!
• Satan disguise himself in many characters, Mom, Dad, Friends, Attractions, Sin, etc. in order to put doubts in us about God.
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• This month: The subject of God• Why I believe in God• Why the God of the Bible• Theistic evolution• The character of God
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Why I Believein God!
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• When you see design, you know there is designer behind it.
• When you see a snowman, do you think it just appeared?
• Just like a car or a painting has a designer, so does the universe.
Design Demands a Designer
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• Consider DNA • – a complex system that stores code
and distributes information much like a super-computer with processes, error correction, data retrieval and
reassembly, and a filing system with multiple tiers of files and folders
Design Demands a Designer
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• Do we have the same DNA?Design Demands a Designer
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• Do we have the same DNA?Design Demands a Designer
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• The placement of the earth – size of planet, distance from sun, right tilt, right rotation, etc.
• Man studies nature to learn how to CREATE things!
Design Demands a Designer
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• Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”
• Psalm 139:14, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made…”
• Romans 1:20
Design Demands a Designer
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• Many factors demonstrate the universe had a beginning:
• The Universe is expanding• Laws of Thermodynamics (energy)
– Entropy…
First Cause (Cosmological)
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• According to these examples, if matter is eternal it would be used up by now!
• Gen. 1:1 – God “created” (Bara) – to make something that has not been in existence before.
First Cause (Cosmological)
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• You cannot create life from inorganic (non-living) matter!
• Evolution teaches life began spontaneously.
• They CANNOT prove it!
Origin of Life
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• Suppose that one day man does create a simple life form – would it require intelligence to create?
• Gen. 2:7– God formed man out of the dust and breathed life into him
Origin of Life
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• Eternity requires something outside the natural realm.
• “The universe is not eternal and does require a maker.” Charlie Campbell
• Eccl. 3:11
The Concept of Eternity
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• Nature cannot explain morality, our sense of “ought”
• Nor can it explain the conscience, beauty, concern, communication, etc.
The Concept of Morality
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• The Bible addresses morality• Genesis 1:27, God created man in
His image• 1 Cor. 15:19, if in this life only we
have hope…
The Concept of Morality
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• Heb. 11:3, 6, “By faith we understand the worlds were framed by the word of God.”
• Psalm 19:1-3, “The heavens declare the glory of God…”
The Bible declares God
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• Psalm 33:6-9, “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth…”
The Bible declares God
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• Psalm 14:1, “The fool has said in his heart there is no God”
• The atheist’s faith – • He denies there can be a God• Believes matter is eternal• Believe life came from inorganic matter• Believes man invented God• Lives with hope that there is nothing beyond this
life
The Bible declares God
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Do we need faith to believe in God?
Yes!
But it is NOT a blind faith!