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Defend Your Faith Lesson No. Two - A Rational Explanation of God's Existence

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Page 1: Defend Your Faith Lesson No. Two - A Rational Explanation of God's Existence

Defend Your FaithA Study in Christian Evidences

Page 2: Defend Your Faith Lesson No. Two - A Rational Explanation of God's Existence

Lesson No. TwoA Rational Explanation of God’s Existence

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.- Albert Einstein

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First Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your

hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness

and fear.

(c) ESV

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Psalm 139:14I praise you, for I am fearfully and

wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

(c) NKJV

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Did God Create?Genesis 1-2 says “Yes!” However it is not

a scientific textbook that answers all the questions we might ask about our

world and its formation.

Can our faith in God rest in the Bible only? Yes!

Does science have to sufficiently“fill-in-the-blanks” when God doesn’t specifically answer our questions? No!

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Creation ThoughtsCosmological = God caused life

Teleological = Design equals intelligenceMorality = The Conscience of Humanity

Ontological = Why? Why not!

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CosmologicalSomething caused or continuously

causes the universe to exist, and this first cause is God. All life we can

observe has a beginning, God does not. So He is the first cause of all life.

See Psa 19:1; Rom 1:18-20.

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TeleologicalIf there is order and arrangement thenthere is design. If there is design there

must be a designer.

DefinitionsOrder = Regularity (24 hrs in a day)Arrangement = Parts work together

Design = Purpose (Not w/o intelligence)

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MoralityIf the morality of an individual or a

society can be criticized as to being right or wrong, then there must be a standard higher than the morality we create. God is the real, objective standard above our

morality. So God exists.

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OntologicalHow could a being have the concept of God without God existing? He couldn’t

and wouldn’t, so God exists.

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Defend Your FaithA Study in Christian Evidences