Emmanuel. God with us. Isaiah 7:14 & Matthew 1:23

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1 Emmanuel God with us Isaiah 7:14 & Matthew 1:23

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4 Emmanuel God with us Isaiah 7:14 & Matthew 1:23 1. Impossible!

5 Richard Dawkins

6 Sandy Hook School Massacre, Friday 14 December 2012

7 Atheist Bus Campaign Launched 21 October 2008

8 Emmanuel - God with us 1. Impossible! 2. Improbable!

9 Sombrero Galaxy M million light years from Earth:. No 1 Photo From the Hubble Telescope

10 Sombrero Galaxy M million light years away: Seconds in a Year? 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 = 31,536,000 x Speed of Light 186,000 How many miles in a light year? = 5,865,696,000,000, say 6 Trillion x 28,000,000

11 6 Trillion x 28,000,000 = 168,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles Or 168 Quintillion. Approximately!!!

12 By the way The Galaxy also has 800,000,000,000 - that is, 800 billion - STARS Approx!!! (Our Milky Way has billion) And is 50,000 light years across

13 Earth from Hayabusa Earth from the Moon

14 Earth Black Marble:

15 Image of the Earth, taken from Mars Pale Blue Dot, taken from Voyager 1, c. 4 Billion miles from Earth, 1990

16 The famous astronomer and cosmologist, Carl Sagan: Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

17 Emmanuel - God with us 1. Impossible! 2. Improbable! 3. Inevitable!

18 God is love (1 John 4:8) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16)

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20 It dawned on me for the first time, really.. it really sank in: the Christmas story. The idea that God, if there is a force of Love and Logic in the universe, that it would seek to explain itself is amazing enough. That it would seek to explain itself and describe itself by becoming a child born in straw poverty, a child I just thought: Wow! Just the poetry Unknowable love, unknowable power, describes itself as the most vulnerable.

21 .. I saw the genius of this, utter genius of picking a particular point in time and deciding to turn on this.. love needs to find form, intimacy needs to be whispered. To me, it makes sense. It s actually logical. It s pure logic. Essence has to manifest itself. It s inevitable. Love has to become an action or something concrete. It would have to happen. There must be an incarnation. Love must be made flesh. Bono on Bono, by Michka Assayas

22 Emmanuel - God with us 1. Impossible! 2. Improbable! 3. Inevitable!

23 Emmanuel - God with us Who doesn t need light and guidance from our Maker?

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26 The Light of the World by Holman Hunt

27 Emmanuel - God with us 1. Impossible! 2. Improbable! 3. Inevitable! The Revealer

28 Emmanuel - God with us Who doesn t need rescuing from the cycle of tyranny, selfishness, sin & death?

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30 The Rescuer

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32 As the shooting started, teacher Vicki Soto, just 27, hid her 16 pupils in the cupboard, and when the gunman came into her room, she told him the class was in the gym. He murdered her, then turned the gun on himself. The children survived. One teacher died using her body to protect her students while the head teacher was shot dead as she lunged at the killer [Adam Lanza].

33 Emmanuel - God with us 1. Impossible! 2. Improbable! 3. Inevitable! The Revealer The Rescuer

34 Emmanuel - God with us Who really wants to stay as they are rather than what they might be?

35 Before After

36 Before After

37 Goldfinger s Rolls Royce Recently on display at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu

38 Before/After Before/After

39 But don t overdo things..

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41 Emmanuel - God with us 1. Impossible! 2. Improbable! 3. Inevitable! The Revealer The Rescuer The Restorer

42 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16) For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23)

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44 There s probably no bus. No stop worrying, come inside and enjoy God!

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