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Is There A God?

Is There A God?. Some say…. Yes!. No!. Friedrich Nietzsche. “The Christian conception of God—is one of the most corrupt conceptions arrived at on earth…We find that which

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Is There A God?

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  1. Is There A God? Some say… Yes! No!

  2. Friedrich Nietzsche “The Christian conception of God—is one of the most corrupt conceptions arrived at on earth…We find that which has been reverenced as ‘God’ not ‘godlike’ but pitiable, absurd, harmful, not merely an error but a crime against life…” The Anti Christ, pp. 172-73, 178

  3. Is There Evidence That God Exists? I. Every Cause Has An Effect (Cosmological Argument). A. Pagan Philosophers • Aristotle (Romans 1:20).

  4. Aristotle “…There is something that moves others while itself unmoved, and that actually exists, and it can in no way be other than it is. For motion in space is the first beginning of change…and this is the motion the first mover produces” Metaphysics, 7

  5. Is There Evidence That God Exists? I. Every Cause Has An Effect (Cosmological Argument). A. Pagan Philosophers • Aristotle (Romans 1:20). B. Religious Philosophers • Thomas Aquinas (Heb. 12:25-29).

  6. Thomas Aquinas “Now if you eliminate a cause you eliminate its effects. So that you cannot have a last cause, or an intermediate one unless you have a first…one is therefore forced to suppose some first cause, to which everyone gives the name ‘God’” Summa Theologica, Q.2, Art. 3

  7. Is There Evidence That God Exists? I. Every Cause Has An Effect (Cosmological Argument). A. Pagan Philosophers • Aristotle (Romans 1:20). B. Religious Philosophers • Thomas Aquinas (Heb. 12:25-29).

  8. Is There Evidence That God Exists? II. The universe displays design (Teleological Argument). A. “A watch on the ground” • William Paley (Romans 1:20).

  9. William Paley “Suppose I pitched my foot against a stone and asked how the stone came to be there. I might possibly answer that, for anything that I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever; nor would it be very easy to show the absurdity of the answer. But suppose I found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch…”

  10. William Paley “…happened to be in that place. I should hardly think of the answer I had given before—that for anything I knew, the watch might always have been there. Yet, why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone?...Every contrivance, every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in…”

  11. William Paley “…the works of nature; with the difference, on the side of nature, of being greater and more, and that in a degree which exceeds computation.” Works of William Paley Vol. 1, p.1 & 13.

  12. Is There Evidence That God Exists? II. The universe displays design (Teleological Argument). A. “A watch on the ground” • William Paley (Romans 1:20). B. The “Ordinances of Nature” • (Psalm 119:89-91).

  13. Is There Evidence That God Exists? III. Universal religion is a display of revelation. A. The concept of God • Romans 1:18-25 • Hebrews 1:1-2

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  15. Is There Evidence That God Exists? III. Universal religion is a display of revelation. A. The concept of God • Romans 1:18-25 • Hebrews 1:1-2

  16. Is There Evidence That God Exists? IV. The Bible is supernatural in character. • Because of its age. • Because of its authorship. • Because of its unity of thought. • Because of its foreknowledge. • Because of its solutions. (II Peter 1:16-21).

  17. Is There Evidence That God Exists? Conclusion. • II Corinthians 5:7 • Hebrews 11:27 • Psalm 10:4

  18. Is There A God? Yes!

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