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Review of Lesson 1

• Natural Knowledge of God
• Creation and conscience
• Revealed Knowledge of God
• Bible
• Verbal Inspiration

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Lesson 2
Bible Basics A WELS Lutheran Presentation

• Creation VS. Evolution
• There Is Nothing New Under The Sun

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Where did we come from?
Every house is built by someone, but God is the
builder of everything! Hebrews 34
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In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 11
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Which is harder to believe?
Big Bang Theory?
Gods Power?
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How long did it take to become Earth as
we know it?
Billions and Billions of years? 2nd law of
thermodynamics
God creates in 6 days? Genesis 15 There was a
morning an evening
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How can this be when modern scientific methods of
dating show a much older planet?

• Genealogies of the Bible indicate our world is
  about 5,000 to 6,000 years old.

Carbon Dating Radiation half life Fossils Shrinkin
g Sun 5ft hour
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Where did life come from?
Primordial Goop?
God calls forth from nothing?
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What are the odds?
Gods Command?
Chance happening?
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What is Mankinds purpose?

• Highly Developed Animal? Each according to own
  kind

God made a special creature. Breath of Life
Genesis 27
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According to kind
Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation
seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that
bear fruit with seed in it, according to their
various kinds.
So God created every living and moving thing with
which the water teems, according to their kinds,
and every winged bird according to its kind.
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Darwin fish
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Moral Implications
I am Master of my own fate! President Clintons
infidelity

• We are responsible to God.

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Why are humans special?

• Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in
  our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
  the sea and the birds of the air, over the
  livestock, over all the earth, and over all the
  creatures that move along the ground. 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).
• God plans, Command to Rule, Gods Image

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Creators Star
STUFF
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What happened to the Dinosaurs?
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Love
Why did God make two kinds of people? Why did God
make a tree you werent supposed to eat
from? (Hint Same Answer!) Answer Love!
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Why did God create a flawed world?
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1st Article
THE FIRST ARTICLE (Creation) I believe in God,
the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and
earth.  What does this mean?  I believe that God
created me and all that exists, and that he gave
me my body and soul, eyes, ears and all my
members, my mind and all my abilities. And I
believe that God still preserves me by richly and
daily providing clothing and shoes, food and
drink, property and home, spouse and children,
land, cattle and all I own, and all I need to
keep my body and life. God also preserves me by
defending me against all danger, guarding and
protecting me from all evil. All this God does
only because he is my good and merciful Father in
heaven, and not because I have earned or deserved
it. For all this I ought to thank and praise, to
serve and obey him. This is most certainly true.