"Intelligent Designer or Amazing Accident?"
Genesis 1. 1-2; Hebrews 11. 1-3
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INTELLIGENT DESIGNER, OR AMAZING
ACCIDENT?
Genesis 1. 1-2; Hebrews 11. 1-3
TODAY I WANT TO BRIEFLY SHARE 7 REASONS FOR BELIEVING IN GOD.
(#1) MATTER DEMANDS A MAKER_____________
A. Laws of physics and natural sciences tell us that everything material has a _____
B. So What caused the universe? Or the earth?
C. MATTER DEMANDS A MAKER- things and effects don’t just come into being.
(#2) _______ DEMANDS A LIFE GIVER:
A. Law of Biogenesis- life never arises except from _______
B. Ultimately two options for life’s origin: 1) spontaneous generation; or 2) a “life-giver.”
(#3) _________ DEMANDS A DESIGNER:
A. Things which are complex, detailed, orderly require a designer or maker
B. A Poem requires ______, painting requires painter, a watch requires watch-maker. Cars, computers, skyscrapers require designers & builders
(#4) INTELLIGENCE DEMANDS AN INTELLIGENT _________:
A. Anything that possesses intelligence must have been caused by something intelligent.
B. How does nothing, or “inorganic matter” come to produce intelligent creatures?
(#5) MORALITY DEMANDS A MORAL ____ ______:
A. Killer whales are not guilty of murder, nor animals that eat their young guilty of infanticide.
B. But, with humans it is different. In every human culture there seems to be an inner ________ code…conscience.
C. Where does that MORAL LAW COME FROM?
(#6) THE BIBLE’S SUPERNATURAL ATTRIBUTES DEMAND A _________ AUTHOR:
A. The Bible documents some supernatural occurrences (miracles)
B. These supernatural occurrences demand that someone or something outside of realm of normal and natural _________ the occurrence.
C. What about miracles in our day, or coincidences, or those little voices that we hear in our head? Where do these come from? What causes them?
(#7) THE HISTORICAL, MIRACLE-WORKING, RESURRECTED JESUS DEMANDS A
_________ EXPLANATION:
A. Bible testifies of miracles performed by Jesus, Jesus’ resurrection
B. The existence of Jesus, the accounts of his death, burial, resurrection, are actions that have withstood the tests of logic, and of validity.
C. These supernatural happenings, require some explanation…the most
logical
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