Transcript Where did the - Knollwood Church Of Christ

EVIDENCES
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The Theory of Evolution is widely
believed and defended
A few billion years ago - back when Earth
was new - rivers rolled down from barren
mountains into great dead seas. Rainstorms squalled and lightning flashed.
Lava hissed and spewed from giant
volcanoes.
Nothing lived on that long-ago Earth. But
the oceans were astir with promise - they
swirled and simmered a primordial (all
the elements) soup that held the raw
materials of life.
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Somehow, probably in the first billion years
of our world's existence, that promise
was fulfilled. A nondescript glob of
chemicals crossed some vague and
wondrous boundary to become the first
living thing.
From such unfeeling chemicals, Earth
eventually filled with a teeming diversity
of life, from microbes to Men. –
"In the beginning," Robert Locke (Ft.
Wayne News-Sentinel, 1/26/80)
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Gen.1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.
Neh.9:6
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou
hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens,
with all their host, the earth, and all things
that are therein, the seas, and all that is
therein, and thou preservest them all; and
the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
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Psm.33:6
By the word of the LORD were the
heavens made; and all the host of
them by the breath of his mouth. 7
He gathereth the waters of the sea
together as an heap: he layeth up
the depth in storehouses. 8 Let all
the earth fear the LORD: let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe
of him. 9 For he spake, and it was
done; he commanded, and it stood
fast.
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EX.20:9-11
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all
thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the
sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son,
nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor
thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For
in six days the LORD made heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore
the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and
hallowed it.
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EX.31:17
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall
keep the sabbath, to observe the
sabbath throughout their generations,
for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a
sign between me and the children of
Israel for ever: for in six days the
LORD made heaven and earth, and
on the seventh day he rested, and was
refreshed.
MK.10:6
6 But from the beginning of the creation
God made them male and female.
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THE ACCURACY OF ACTS
Luke, the physician/historian mentions
Thirty-two countries
Fifty-four cities
Nine Mediterranean islands
He alludes to ninety-five different people,
sixty-two of which are not mentioned by
any other New Testament writer
Twenty-seven of these are unbelievers,
chiefly civil or military officials
The book of Acts will definitely stand the
test of historical examination.
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THE ACCURACY OF THE BIBLE
It doesn’t begin with:
“In a land far, far away…”
It doesn’t use mythical
characters
It doesn’t talk about “Never, Never
Land”
It gives names, places, dates
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EXTERNAL EVIDENCES
Psm.19:1 The heavens declare the glory
of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth
speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor
language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the
earth, and their words to the end of the
world. In them hath he set a tabernacle
for the sun
“Seeing
is believing”
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Did this evolve
or is there
design?
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OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY WITH 400
BILLION STARS
100,000 Light Years across
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HOW BIG IS GOD’S CREATION?
Our Galaxy- 588,000,000,000,000 miles
 186,000 per second for 100,000 years
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How Big Is Our Galaxy?
186,000 mps X 60 = Miles per Minute
11,160,000
Multiply that X 60 = Miles an Hour
669,600,000
Multiply that X 24 = Miles in a day
160,070,000,000
Multiply that X 365 = Miles in a year
Multiply that X 100,000 = Miles in
100,000 Lt Yrs- 588 Septillion Miles
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How Big Is Our Galaxy?
Psm.19:1…the firmament
sheweth his handywork.
Firmament = Endless expanse
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The Milky Way:
Home of our Solar System ~ Sun to Pluto
More recent estimates have given numbers
around 400 billion stars
 Our solar system is in the exact place it
has to be in our galaxy or it would be
pulled apart by gravity
 Our sun is just the right size and distance
from earth
 Earth’s Ozone protects from harmful rays
 All by chance? No design or Designer?
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Andromeda galaxy, and its companions
Nearest galaxy to earth, about 2 million
light years away -186,000 mps.
It has hundreds of billions stars
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MILKY WAY - SMALL IN COMPARISON
CONSTELLATION “HERCULES”
 We see 100’s of blotches
 Each is a galaxy with 100’s of billions
stars
 2,500,000 known galaxies
 Astronomers estimate over a trillion
galaxies – each with billions of stars
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Psm.147:4 He telleth the
number of the stars; he calleth
them all by their names.
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OUR SUN
Earth and moon (247,000 miles) could fit
inside it even if the Sun had a wall of
500,000 miles thick
Sun’s diameter – 870,000
It is 1,300,000 times larger than earth
Sun’s light reaches us in 8 min. 19 sec.
One star in the constellation “Orion” called
Betelgeuse is 248 times larger than the
Sun
Antares in the constellation Scorpio is
400,000,000 miles in diameter
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THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER
1. NEBULAR – A huge spinning blob
began spinning faster and faster and
chunks began breaking off until we have
what we have today
What question doesn’t this answer?
Where did “The Blob” originate?
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THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER
2. PLANETESIMAL - An intruder star
from somewhere else in our galaxy came
near the Sun, and as it did, the gravitational forces that were generated
produced tidal forces that tore material
out of the Sun which became the solar
system
What question doesn’t this answer?
Where did the “Intruder Star & Sun”
originate?
Afterthought: Where’d water come from?
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THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER
3. BIG BANG – 2 GIANT planets collided
in space
Question: Would the 100’s of billions of
pieces all be round? All the same shape?
What question doesn’t this answer?
Where did the“ 2 GIANT planets”
originate?
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THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER
4. ANCIENT ASTRONAUT – All we see
and are is the result of astronauts from
other galaxies or other parts of our
galaxy whose creative activity is
revealed in us
What question doesn’t this answer?
Where did the“ Other Galaxies &
Astronauts” originate?
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THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER
5. CONTINUOUS GENERATION – Matter
is constantly being generated in the
cosmos. The process by which this
creation from nothing is taking place is
not identified. They don’t know!
They realize it has to have an origin
But like the “Missing Link” you’d think they
would have solved the problem by now.
But anything is better than believing in God
We know where we originated – “IN THE
BEGINNING GOD…”
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INTERNAL EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE
THE SUSPENSION OF THE EARTH
Men have had many different ideas
 Hindu – Earth on the backs of 4 giant
elephants, standing on the back of a
giant turtle who was swimming in a sea
of milk
 Japanese – Earth on the back of a giant
catfish
 Greeks – Atlas had it on his back
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INTERNAL EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE
THE SUSPENSION OF THE EARTH
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God says: Job26:7 He stretcheth
out the north over the empty place,
and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
WRITTEN 4,000 YRS AGO
WHICH IS CORRECT?
Creation? Evolution?
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BIBLE MEDICINE
Moses was educated in Egypt, but didn’t
follow their medical practices.
They practiced blood-letting. Why? They
thought disease originated in the blood
U.S. practiced it G.Washington was “bled”
Barbers practiced it - red/white symbol
HOW DID MOSES KNOW?
Lev.17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the
blood
17:14 For it is the life of all flesh; the
blood of it is for the life thereof
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BIBLE MEDICINE
Recently discovered that leprosy was
spread through the breathe
LEV.13:45 And the leper in whom the
plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and
his head bare, and he shall put a
covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry,
Unclean, unclean.
How did Moses know
this?
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BIBLE PROPHECY
DEUT.18:20 But the prophet, which shall
presume to speak a word in my name,
which I have not commanded him to
speak, or that shall speak in the name of
other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How
shall we know the word which the LORD
hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet
speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the
thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is
the thing which the LORD hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid
of him.
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JER.28:9 The prophet which prophesieth
of peace, when the word of the prophet
shall come to pass, then shall the prophet
be known, that the LORD hath truly sent
him.
PROPHECY: BIRTH PLACE OF JESUS
Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall
he come forth unto me that is to be ruler
in Israel; whose goings forth have been
from of old, from everlasting.
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FULFILLED: BIRTH PLACE OF JESUS
Mt. 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in
Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod
the king, behold, there came wise men
from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying,
Where is he that is born King of the
Jews? for we have seen his star in the
east, and are come to worship him. 3
When Herod the king had heard these
things, he was troubled, and all
Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had
gathered all the chief priests and scribes
of the people together, he demanded of
them where Christ should be born. 5 And
they said unto him, In Bethlehem of
Judaea: for thus it is written by the
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prophet, 6 And thou Bethlehem, in the
land of Juda, art not the least among the
princes of Juda: for out of thee shall
come a Governor, that shall rule my
people Israel.
They trusted the prophet
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PROPHECY: BIRTH OF JESUS
Isa.7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall
give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call
his name Immanuel.
Mt.1:21 And she shall bring forth a son,
and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for
he shall save his people from their sins.
22 Now all this was done, that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by
the prophet, saying, 23 Behold, a virgin
shall be with child, and shall bring forth a
son, and they shall call his name
Emmanuel, which being interpreted is,
God with us.
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PROPHESY OF KINGDOM: ISA.2:2
And it shall come to pass in the last days,
that the mountain of the LORD’S house
shall be established in the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above
the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say,
Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of the LORD, to the house of
the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of
his ways, and we will walk in his paths:
for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and
the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
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LAST DAYS = ACTS 2:16 But this
is that which was spoken by the
prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to
pass in the last days, saith God,I
will pour out of my Spirit upon all
flesh:
ALL NATIONS = MK.16:15 Go ye
into all the world, and preach the
gospel to every creature
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FROM JERUSALEM = LK.24:46
Thus it is written, and thus it
behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise
from the dead the third day: 47 And
that repentance and remission of
sins should be preached in his name
among all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem.
Cf. Acts 2:38
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EXTERNAL EVIDENCES
Rm.1:18 For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which
may be known of God is manifest in
them; for God hath shewed it unto
them. 20 For the invisible things of
him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even
his eternal power and Godhead; so
that they are without excuse:
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LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION
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A MODERN LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE
FOR EVOLUTION
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I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist
To believe that it was dead, lifeless matter
over mind that created heaven and earth
To believe the human body is a matter of
evolution
Psm.139:14 I will praise thee; for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works; and that my
soul knoweth right well.
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth.
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