Transcript Evidence for God`s Existence Cause & Effect

“That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God”
1 Corinthians 2:5
Evidence for God’s Existence
Atheism VS. Theism: If there is no God, one is
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left with a number of highly improbable and
unreasonable conclusions.
Matter would have to be eternal, yet become
more organized with time.
Chance would have to account for the existence
of everything.
A person would have to be God to KNOW that
God does not exist.
The problem of evil would be an illusion!
Evidence for God’s Existence
Cause & Effect (The Cosmological Argument)
Cause & effect implies an “uncaused first cause”
– “What caused the world to exist?”
– Most atheists believe that the universe began
with a “big bang,” but they have no empirical
evidence or explanation for what caused it!
• “All the evidence we have says that the universe had
a beginning” (Alexander Vilenken).
• “Many people do not like the idea that time has a
beginning, probably because it smacks of divine
intervention” (Stephen Hawking).
• God is the only reasonable explanation!
(He is “eternal” -- Deuteronomy 33:27)
Reason to Believe
• What do the following Bible verses say
about what caused the universe?
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Hebrews 3:4
Hebrews 1:10
Romans 1:20
Hebrews 11:3
Genesis 1:1
Isaiah 66:1-2a
Reason to Believe
• If God is the “uncaused first cause,” He
could not have had a beginning.
• What do the following verses say about
the existence and eternal nature of God?
– Psalm 90:2
– Exodus 3:14-15
– 2 Peter 3:8
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Evidence for God’s Existence
The Moral Nature of Mankind
• Humans have a built-in sense of right &
wrong and “fair play.”
– We are moral beings.
– Material things don’t live by a moral code.
– How could our morality have come from nonmoral matter?
– The most reasonable explanation for man’s
moral nature is that a Moral Being (God)
brought us into existence and coded
morality into our make-up!
Reason to Believe
“For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature
do the things in the law, these, although not having the
law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the
law written in their hearts, their conscience also
bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts
accusing or else excusing them) -- Romans 2:14-15
Did the Gentiles who were not given God’s
law still have a sense of right and wrong?
According to the passage, where did this
sense of morality come from?
Evidence for God’s Existence
Design Demands a Designer
(The Teleological Argument)
• The wisdom and intelligence of God are
seen in His creation (Psalms 104:24; 136:5;
Proverbs 3:19).
– God’s creative skill is like that of a “master
craftsman” (Proverbs 8:22-31).
– The existence of a watch requires the
existence and skill of a watch-maker
– The existence of the world declares that God
exists and that He is a skillful designer and
builder.