We are Made to Choose God

Made to know love and serve God

• Why did God make me?• Why am I here?• What is the purpose of life?

– To know God-Faith– To love God-Love– To serve God-Hope

(To be in union with him sharing his love and joy forever).

• The Plan-Predestined to be in the Family of God

• Made to know, love and serve God

• Made in His image

• Innate Desire

The Plan: Eph 1:4,5,10 pg.1278

Predestined to be in the family of God

• God the Father, “chose us in him before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him” v.4

• “He destined us for adoption to Himself through Jesus Christ” so that we can share in his divine Life the life of the Trinity. v.5

• “As a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth”. v.10

Made in His Image

• Not just another animal but not pure spirit like angels

• We’re both Spirit and Flesh(Body as Temple of God1Cor 6:19-20)

• Communal-male and female he created them

• Reason, Love, Free Will, Creative Power• In Christ,we’re restored to father-Son image

Since humans image God, we are a 'proof' of His existence

• SPIRITUAL:As creative,intelligent,spiritual,free,self-aware---Heroic sacrifice!

Heroic Sacrifice:Agape

PHYSICAL: As physically complex, designed creatures The systems: digestive,reproductive,vascular,respiratory etc.

Take for example just the ear...

The Ear

Your ears can discriminate among more than 300,000 tones, far more than needed for survival—but abundantly adequate to enjoy music. Each ear can detect volume intensities of 10 billion to one. The inner ear has 20,000 hair cells, each with 100 separate hairs (two million total), each responding to its own frequency and intensity of sound. The bones of the middle ear are finely machined levers. To work perfectly, these ossicles must maintain a certain size, so they are the only bones which never grow from birth to old age. Your ears constitute a complex stereo musical instrument and sound system in your head.

Whitaker Chambers

• Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901 –July 9,1961), born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker, was an

• American writer and editor.• A Communist party member

and Soviet spy, he renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent.

• He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss.

“My daughter was in her high chair. I was watching her eat. She was the most miraculous thing that had ever happened in my life. I liked to watch even when she smeared porridge on her face or dropped it meditatively on the Hoor. My eye came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear-those intricate, perfect ears. The thought passed through my mind: "No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design." The thought was involuntary and unwanted. I crowded it out of my mind. But I never wholly forgot it or the occasion. I had to crowd it out of my mind. If I had completed it, I should have had to say: Design presupposes God. I did not then know that, at that moment, the finger of God was first laid upon my forehead.” Whitaker Chambers

The conversion of Whitaker Chambers...

Life long atheist and philosopher Antony Flew, pictured below, has evolved into a Deist!

" The most famous atheist in the academic world over the last half-century, Professor Antony Flew of England's University of Reading, now accepts the existence of God" (Dallas Morning News)

"Professor Antony Flew, a prominent British philosopher who is considered the world's best-known atheist, has cited advancements in science as proof of the existence of God." (Insight On The News)

"British professor Antony Flew, for decades one of the world's leading philosophers of atheism, publicly announced that he now affirms the existence of a deity." (Dallas Morning News)"Now, in a remarkable reversal, Mr. Flew holds that the universe was brought into being by an infinite intelligence." (Dallas Morning News)

"This is comparable to Hugh Hefner announcing that he is becoming a celibate." (Insight On The News)

Headlines: The conversion of Antony Flew...

Dallas Morning News,Dec 15, 2004

An intellectual bombshell dropped last week when British professor Antony Flew, for decades one of the world's leading philosophers of atheism, publicly announced that he now affirms the existence of a deity.

To be sure, Mr. Flew has not become an adherent of any creed. He simply believes that science points to the existence of some sort of intelligent designer of the universe. He says evidence from DNA research convinces him that the genetic structure of biological life is too complex to have evolved entirely on its own. Though the 81-year-old philosopher believes Darwinian theory explains a lot, he contends that it cannot account for how life initially began.

Innate Desire

• Every natural, innate desire in us corresponds to some real object that can satisfy that desire. But there exists in us a desire which nothing in time, nothing on earth, no creature can satisfy. Therefore there must exist something more than time, earth and creatures, which can satisfy this desire. This something is what people call "God" and "life with God forever."

C.S. Lewis

• Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for these desires exists. A baby feels hunger; well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim; well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire; well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. (C.S.Lewis,Mere Christianity, Bk. III, chap. 10, "Hope")

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