Why I Believe

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Why I Believe

• That Faith in God Is Most Reasonable

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Everyone Believes Something

• Brilliant scientists
• Believe the Bible
• Disbelieve the Bible
• Some are naturalistsbelieving only in natural
  causes known by scientific processes.
• But they cannot answer all questions.
• Therefore, they bridge some facts and knowledge
  with mere belief.

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Everyone Believes Something

• Brilliant scientists
• Believe the Bible
• Disbelieve the Bible
• Theirs is not a faith in God, but faith in human
  wisdom and the scientific process.
• They are content to believe what they believe.
• They are critical of those who do not accept many
  of the basic premises of their belief system.

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Great Thinkers
Often push away from God. Are often pushed toward
God.
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Great Thinkers
Often push away from God. Are often pushed toward
God.

• A tidal wave of new books threatens to shatter
  that confidence-titles like Darwin Retried
  (1971) Macbeth The Neck of the Giraffe Where
  Darwin Went Wrong (1982) Hitching The Great
  Evolution Mystery (1983), Taylor The Bone
  Peddlers Selling Evolution (1984), Fix Darwin
  Was Wrong-A Study in Probabilities (1984), Cohen
  Darwinism The Refutation of a Myth (1987),
  Lovtrup and Adam and Evolution (1984), Pitman.
  Not one of these books was written from a
  Christian-apologetic point of view they are
  concerned only with scientific truth - as was Sir
  Ernst Chain when he called evolution 'a fairy
  tale.'"

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Great Thinkers
Often push away from God. Are often pushed toward
God.

• Dr. Arthur E. Wilder-Smith
• "The Evolutionary model says that it is not
  necessary to assume the existence of anything,
  besides matter and energy, to produce life. That
  proposition is unscientific. We know perfectly
  well that if you leave matter to itself, it does
  not organize itself - in spite of all the efforts
  in recent years to prove that it does."

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Smart Professors and Classroom Intimidation

• Cannot overcome
• The obvious order of creation
• For since the creation of the world His
  invisible attributes are clearly seen, being
  understood by the things that are made, even His
  eternal power and Godhead, so that they are
  without excuse. Romans 120

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Smart Professors and Classroom Intimidation

• Cannot overcome
• The evidence of Jesus.
• And truly Jesus did many other signs in the
  presence of His disciples, which are not written
  in this book but these are written that you may
  believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
  and that believing you may have life in His
  name. John 2030,31

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Smart Professors and Classroom Intimidation

• Cannot overcome
• The Bibles internal and externalevidence.
• All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,
  and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
  correction, for instruction in righteousness,
  that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly
  equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy
  316,17

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Smart Professors and Classroom Intimidation

• Cannot overcome
• Well-grounded conviction.
• That by two immutable things, in which it is
  impossible for God to lie, we might have strong
  consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold
  of the hope set before us. Hebrews 618

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Smart Professors and Classroom Intimidation

• Cannot overcome
• Other smart, educated, scientists who can
  counter-argue with the best skeptical professors.
• Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every
  man a liar. As it is written That You may be
  justified in Your words, and may overcome when
  You are judged. Romans 34

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Basic Questions

• ORIGIN Where did we come from?
• IDENTITY Who are we?
• MEANING Why are we here?
• MORALITY How should we live?
• DESTINY Where are we going?

Science and human wisdom alone cannot answer
these questions!
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ORIGIN Where Did We Come From?

• Two theories
• Created by higher being (intelligence).
• Accidents that occurred when eternal particles
  bumped together at the right place and the right
  time.

• And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
  ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
  of life and man became a living being.
  Genesis 27

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IDENTITY Who Are We?

• Two theories
• Exalted, special creatures made in the image of
  their Creator.
• Evolved, smarter animals, mysteriously formed by
  a series of particle accidents.

• Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our
  likeness let them have dominion over the fish of
  the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the
  cattle, over all the earth and over every
  creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God
  created man in His own image in the image of God
  He created him male and female He created them.
  Genesis 126,27

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MEANING Why Are We Here?

• Two theories
• To fulfill the Creators plan and will for an
  eternal relationship.
• No purpose accidents cannot have real purpose!

• Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
  Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is
  man's all. Ecclesiastes 1213

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MORALITY How Should We Live?

• Two theories
• In harmony with high standards of holiness as
  revealed by the Holy Creator.
• How should animals live? Survival is the main
  principle.

• Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and
  worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
  righteously, and godly in the present age.
  Titus 212

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DESTINY Where Are We Going?

• Two theories
• Back to face God and be judged and sentenced
  according to the choices we made.
• No destiny just cessation and death.

• For we must all appear before the judgment seat
  of Christ, that each one may receive the things
  done in the body, according to what he has done,
  whether good or bad.2 Corinthians 510

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Three Major Religious-World Views
Theism God Made All
Pantheism God Is All
Atheism No God at All
Judaism Christianity Islam
Zen Buddhism Hinduism New Age
Religious Humanism
Creator
Nature
Accident
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Probability Factors

• Maximum possible number of life support bodies in
  the universe thus, less than one chance in
  10,282 million-trillion (followed by 21
  trillion)!
• Exists that even one life-support body could
  occur anywhere in the universe without invoking
  divine miracles.
• Silver dollars across Texas?

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Two Revelations From God
Nature Shows the Wisdom and Power of the Godhead
The Written Revelation The Bible

• Unusual wisdom of the plan
• Prophecy types/shadows imbedded
• History and accuracy
• Scientific foreknowledge
• Evidence of Jesus, miracles, death, and
  resurrection

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What Do Atheists Have?

• Explanations that boil down to accidents.
• Endless efforts to create doubt in the Bible.

I Dont Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist!
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Basic Questions
Atheist Answers

• Origin Where did we come from?
• Identity Who are we?
• Meaning Why are we here?
• Morality How should we live?
• Destiny Where are we going?

Accident Accidents Accident Whatever Nowhere
Science and Human Wisdom Alone Cannot Answer
These Questions