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APOLOGETICS THE NECESSITY OF GOD

APOLOGETICS THE NECESSITY OF GOD. I CONSIDERED ALL THAT MY HANDS HAD DONE AND THE TOIL I HAD SPENT IN DOING IT, AND AGAIN, ALL WAS VANITY AND A CHASING AFTER WIND. ( ECCL. 2:11 ). GOD DOES NOT EXIST, THEN ALL HUMAN LIFE AS WELL AS EVERY INDIVIDUAL LIFE WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROYED.

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APOLOGETICS THE NECESSITY OF GOD

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  1. APOLOGETICS THE NECESSITY OF GOD

  2. I CONSIDERED ALL THAT MY HANDS HAD DONE AND THE TOIL I HAD SPENT IN DOING IT, AND AGAIN, ALL WAS VANITY AND A CHASING AFTER WIND. ( ECCL. 2:11 )

  3. GOD DOES NOT EXIST, THEN ALL HUMAN LIFE AS WELL AS EVERY INDIVIDUAL LIFE WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROYED.

  4. GOD EXIST BECAUSE IF HE DID NOT THEN ....

  5. Reductio ad absurdum, • Reductio ad absurdum, or reduction to absurdity, is a form of argument that proves a statement by demonstrating that its opposite is absurd.

  6. Purpose Value Meaning The presence of God allows these three properties Significance :Why something matters A goal or a reason for something Good or evil , right or wrong

  7. Purpose Value Meaning The absence of God Human illusions as there is just their appearance with not tangible value

  8. NO MEANING

  9. 1.Without immortality your life has no ultimate significance and makes no difference to the world’s outcome. • 2.Without God there is no broader framework within which man’s life can be seen to matter.

  10. What ultimate difference does it make?

  11. Duration does out matter if there is no God • Poison • Elixir of eternal life? • Needs God and immortality

  12. Jean Paul Sartre • "several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity."

  13. Winston Churchill • At end of illustrious career as Britain's most successful Prime Minister for two terms...felt like a failure..he failed to achieve world peace in the cold war

  14. NO REAL VALUES

  15. 1.Without immortality there is no moral accountability, and your moral choices become inconsequential. • 2.Without God moral values are just delusions ingrained into us by evolution and social conditioning.

  16. Does it matter how we live?

  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky • “If there is no immortality … then all things are permitted.”

  18. Why all the fuss?

  19. Moral values are either just expressions of personal taste or the by-products of biological evolution and social conditioning.

  20. Richard Dawkins • “There is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference.… We are machines for propagating DNA.… It is every living object’s sole reason for being”?

  21. NO ULTIMATE PURPOSE

  22. 1.Without immortality your only destination is extinction in death. • 2.Without God there is no purpose for which you came into this world.

  23. “The fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust” ( Eccl. 3:19–20 NASB).

  24. ABSURDITY OF ATHEISM

  25. It is impossible to live consistently and happily with an atheistic worldview. • A.If we live happily as atheists, it is only by inconsistently affirming meaning, value, and purpose for our lives, despite the lack of foundation for them. • B.If we live consistently as atheists, we shall be profoundly unhappy and even in despair because we know our lives are really meaningless, worthless, and purposeless.

  26. Bertrand Russel • we have no choice but to build our lives upon “the firm foundation of unyielding despair.”

  27. Albert Camus • we should honestly recognize life’s absurdity and then live in love for one another.

  28. Inconsistency vs happiness • The fundamental problem with this solution, however, is that it’s impossible to live consistently and happily within the framework of such a worldview. If you live consistently, you will not be happy; if you live happily, it is only because you are not consistent.

  29. God, meaning ,value, purpose Man , physical world

  30. Meaning • Life is absurd but you can produce your own meaning • Like loving others • He is really pretending there is meaning..fooling himself

  31. Values in life • no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference, • Condemns harassment and abuse of homosexuals, religious indoctrination of children, the Incan practice of human sacrifice, and prizing cultural diversity over the interests of Amish children.e,

  32. Purpose • Why should Life devoted to scientific research be any more meaningful than lying in the beach? • Life devoted to scientific research meaningful hence tragic for it to be extinguished Steven Weinberg

  33. Human Predicament Self fulfillment Society first..totalitarian at expense of self fulfillment

  34. The noble lie Self fulfillment Society first..totalitarian at expense of self fulfillment Noble Lie that will inspire us to live beyond selfish interests and so voluntarily achieve social coherence.

  35. THE ANWSER?

  36. Biblical Christianity

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