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FOUNDATIONS OF OUR FAITH

1.Atheism/Agnostics

Define:

Atheism - the belief in no god

Atheist linguistic definition - “without God”

Agnostic - the belief that there is an unknowable god (becoming more popular as atheism is becoming more obviously stupid)

Agnostic literal linguistic definition means “without knowledge”

Proving the Existence of God and that He is Personal

STEP 1 - clarify what science is - “when you observe something and experiment to draw conclusions or facts.”.

Make sure they understand this because most “science” people believe today like Evolution should not be considered science by its own definition.

Evolution by example is a belief not science in definition.

STEP 2 - Know 3 Key Scientific Facts

The universe has a beginning.

The second law of thermodynamics says that energy and matter run out over time.

Which means the universe is not eternal.

If the universe is not eternal then the universe has a beginning and a end.

There are only 3 elements that cause our universe to exist - Space, Time, & Matter.

Space is the location everything exists.

Time is when each thing exists.

Matter is all things physical.

All three have to be present in order for anything to ever exist at the same time.

Scientifically if there is a beginning there must be something or someone outside of time, space, and matter to start all three (Gen 1:1 “ “In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter).

How did the Bible know this at a time when people were gods, and the earth rested on an elephants back?

The Universe is extremely fine-tuned for life on Earth.

If gravity it was stronger everything would collapse.

If gravity was weaker everything would drift apart.

If the speed of light or the mass of an electron was slightly different there would be no planet capable of supporting human life.

The energy levels in carbon atoms are just right for life to exist change them a little and the unwired would be incapable of supporting life.

There is so many other things that have to be perfect in order for life to exist.

Either this is extreme luck or done by a creative God.

If luck you have to explain what was so lucky to start time, matter, and space… once they explain (some will say an alien, or chemical) I tend to say that is creation not evolution, and sounds like what you call an alien I call a God.

STEP 2 - Cosmological Evidence.

The evidence is that with everything we “observe” (observable science) something creates something, nothing cannot create something.

This evidence destroys the big bang, because you just keep asking “where did that come from?”.

I normally just keep asking that till they say I don’t know, then I will explain the 2nd key scientific fact I mentioned.

Normally they will ask then “who created God”?

My answer is God lives outside of space - (Matthew 6:9), God is timeless - (Psalm 90:2), and God is not matter - (John 4:24).

Just like a computer wouldn't be able to prove our existence using only a hard drive, graphics card, and memory.

The existence of God can be understood by looking at creation, prophecies, Bible, and so much more.

STEP 3 - Teleological Evidence.

The evidence is that a design implies a designer.

For example, a painting implies there was a painter, a watch implies a watch maker, mount Rushmore was not created by chance, or a robot took intelligence to create.

Design is easy to recognize, if you saw a boat on an island you would not assume it was deserted.

Just look at the human body.

We have a complex nervous system that allows us to be balanced and feel, and so much more.

We have a complex reproductive system that enables us to have children.

We have a complex skeletal system that has to be a certain way for us to function and have important organs protected with 206 bones.

We have a complex muscle system of 640 muscles that is crucial for life in so many ways.

We have a complex digestive system that has to work a certain way or else were in big trouble.

We have a complex healing system that allows us to recover from injuries, and fights off diseases.

Our brain is a powerful machine it runs automatically, and manually, for example we breathe automatically our eyes blink automatically, our hearts beat automatically, but manually we can move our fingers, necks, toes (etc.).

Just think what if what was automatic and manual was reversed?

We have the ability to think, and create, problem solve.

The heart which beats over a 100,000 times a day that the size of a man fist it contracts and forces blood through 60,000 miles of veins, arteries, and capillaries in your body every hour it pumps about 75 gallons of blood totaling more then 50,000 gallons every month.

If Evolution was true what evolved first the heart, the blood or the veins?

All three need to be present at the same time for life, it cannot be evolved.

The eye has 2,000,000 working parts, to name a few: a ball with a lens on one side and on there other side a light sensitive retina made up of rods and cones, the lens itself has a sturdy protective covering called the cornea that sits over an iris designed to protect the eye from too much light the eye contains amazing watery substance that is replaced every 4 hours, there is tear glands continuously flush the outside clean eyelids sweep secretion over the cornea to keep it moist, there is eyelashes protect it from dust, and there is extraordinary fine tuned muscles are attached to the eye that move the eye, and shape the lens, so that our eyes can focus.

In one single cell of the human body, as the famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins asserts “there is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.

So did all these amazing pieces of machinery that all had to be there at once come together by some mindless process and random series of accidents?

Probably Not!

STEP 4 - Moral Evidence.

The evidence is that a moral law comes from a moral law giver (laws come from legislators).

If we have a moral law that we all societies naturally live there must be a lawgiver.

All morals agree that a punch to the face is not good, murdering a friend is not friendly, stealing your baby is not loving, love is good, lying is wrong, and that cheating is wrong.

Note just because people break the moral law doesn't mean they don’t have the same moral law.

It is just that they are moral law breakers.

If you did any of these things to them they would not like it.

So where did the moral law come from?

Where did the ability to love come from?

Now if God created the world and wants to communicate with us we can expect that inside of us there is an influence or command in us to behave a certain way (so that we can relate with Him) and we find this influence/command in the moral law, that we all have.

Our God wants to relate with us.

He desires to love us, and for us to love Him.

He desires to do good to us, and for us to do good to Him (etc.).

I recommend using this evidence toward agnostics.

Bonus steps (2 extra evidences).

The Biological Evidence - Life doesn't come from non-life, so life must have began from a living God.

The Anthropological Evidence - We all have a need to worship, that couldn't have came from evolution, but from a God who wants to have a relationship with us.

2. Deity of Jesus

NOTE - every false religion/sect denies that Jesus is God.

However below we will see that scripture clearly teaches us that Jesus is God.

BY WORD

In John 17:5 Jesus prays that He has had Gods glory before the world was, and it says in Isaiah 42:8 “ I am the Lord, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another,”.

If God doesn't give His glory to another, and Jesus says He had it before the start of the world, then He probably is God.

God says in Isaiah 44:6 that He is the first and the last, then Jesus says I am the first and the last in Revelation 1:17.

In Psalms 23:1 says God is the good Shepherd.

In John 10:11 Jesus says I am the good shepherd.

In Joel 3:12 God says “He will sit to judge all the nations on every side”.

Jesus said He is the judge of all people in Matt 25:31; John 5:27.

In Isaiah 62:5 and Hos.

2:16 God is identified as like a bridegroom, Jesus spoke of Himself as the bridegroom in Matt.

25:1.

In Psalms 27:1 it says the Lord is my light, in John 8:12 Jesus says “ I am the light of the world”.

In John 8:58 Jesus says, “Before Abraham was I Am”.

This is a double claim of God from Jesus in that He is saying He existed before Abraham, and that He was the I Am of Exodus 3:14.

In John 10:30-33 Jesus says “I and My Father are one.”

the Jews recognized that it was a claim to deity and said “The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”

God is the Judge (Joel 3:12; Deut 32:35-36), but in John 5:22 Jesus says “22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,”

In John 5:23 Jesus said that He and God should receive the same honor.

In Matthew 5:21-22 Jesus takes authority of the ten commandments.

Also Jesus gives a new commandment in John 13:34.

In Matthew 28:18-19 Jesus says He has all authority in heaven and earth.