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5 5 Session 1: Their Both Religions Session 2: How Old Is It? Session 3: It Was Good Session 4: Dinosaurs with Man Session 5: Fact vs Faith Session 6: The Truth of God

6 6 There Are Four Great Questions that man will attempt to answer in life. Four Great Questions 1. Who am I? 2. Wheredid I come from? 3.Why am I here? 4. Wheream I going when I die? Amazing! A Big Bang made this world from nothing! Humanist world-view Man is god and answers to no one.

7 7 Incredible design! God is a smart designer. Creationist world-view: God is God and judges all men. Creationist s Time Line: 6000 years ago (4000 BC) Creation 4400 YA Flood 0 Jesus Birth Today Evolutionist s Time Line: 20,000,000,000 years ago Big Bang Humanism: The end of all being is the happiness of man, the reason for existence is man s happiness.

8 8 Christianity: The end of all being is the Glory of God. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that askethyou a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 1 Peter 3:15

9 9 For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything. G K Chesterton Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, II Peter 3:3 Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable. Sir Arthur Keith

10 10 In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1 Big Bang! 1. Where did the matter come from? 2. Where did the laws come from? Gravity, inertia, centrifical force, etc. 3. Where did the energy come from?

11 11 Humanists regard the Universe*as self existing and not created. Humanist Manifesto 1 (1933) Tenent#1 Uni=single verse=spoken sentence And God said, Let there be light Genesis 1:3 Speed of Light 186,000 mps 11,160,000 mpm 669,600,000 mph 5,880,000,000,000 mpy

12 12 How Much is a Trillion? Inquiring minds want to know Here s a hundred bucks We ll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go. A Benny saved is a Benny earned! Serious coin A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Party! Party!

13 13 One Million Dollars!!! Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it. Sa-weet! Holy cow! And $1 BILLION dollars... now we re really getting somewhere... Whoa, dude! Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 Trillion dollars... No way! And notice those pallets are double stacked $100 dollar bills! So the next time you hear your Congressman toss around the phrase trillion dollars... that s what they re talking about. Read on

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15 15 If it is all out there just for us, there is a lot of wasted space! The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Psalm 19:1

16 16 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Psalm 19:3 A.W. Tozer said, "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."

17 17 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! Romans 11:33 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counselor? Romans 11:34 Orwho hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? Romans 11:35

18 18 For ofhim, and through him, and tohim, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Romans 11:36 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory willi not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Isaiah 42:8 Remember the former things of old: fori am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Isaiah 46:9

19 19 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, andi will do all my pleasure: Isaiah 46:10 For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. Colossians 1:16 All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: What have you done? Daniel 4:35

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22 22 It has been estimated that there are enough stars for every person on earth to own 11,000,000,000,000 (11 trillion) of them. Total: 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 Stars in the Sky 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 Grains of Sand in the World

23 23 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Isaiah 40:12 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might Isaiah 40:26 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars 20,000,000,000 years 3,500,000,000,000 1 year 6,655,000 1 minute We should see 6 ½ million new stars forming every minute for 20 billion years yet no one has seen even one form!

24 24 If it is right for man to have the glory of God as his goal, Can it be wrong for God to have the same goal? If man can have no higher purpose than God s glory, how can God? If it is wrong for man to seek a lesser end than this, It would be wrong for God too.

25 25 The reason it cannot be right for man to live for himself, as if he were God, is because He is not God. However, it cannot be wrong for God to seek his own glory, simply because he is God. -J I Packer O Lord our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth! Who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Psalm 8:1

26 26 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; Psalm 8:3 What is man,that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Psalm 8:4

27 27 Sin Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin;and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Romans 5:12

28 28 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: Philippians 2:6 But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: Philippians 2:7 And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2:8

29 29 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Hima name which is above every name: Philippians 2:9 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; Philippians 2:10 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:11

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31 31 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: Isaiah 40:15 All nations before him are as nothing;and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. Isaiah 40:17

32 32 Carl Sagan If you look at it, you see a dot. We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone That s you here. ever heard That s of, every human home. being That s who ever lived, us. lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands On it, of everyone confident religions, you ideologies ever and heard economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of.. civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, Lived every saint there and sinner on in a the mote history of of our species, dust, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of Think the rivers of of the blood rivers spilled by of all blood those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become spilled the momentary by all those masters generals of a fraction of and a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of emperors so that in glory and one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants triumph of some they other could corner of become the dot. How the frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one momentary another, how fervent masters their hatreds. of a Our fraction posturings, of our a imagined self-importance, dot. the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

33 33 The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals Think and emperors of the so that endless in glory and cruelties in triumph they visited could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. by the inhabitants of one corner of Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of the one dot corner on of the scarcely dot on scarcely distinguishable of some other corner of dot. How frequent inhabitants their misunderstandings, of some how eager other they corner are to kill one of another, how fervent their hatreds. dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity --in all this is no hint that all help this will come vastness from elsewhere --there to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a is humbling, no hint and I might that add, a character-building help will experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration come from of the folly elsewhere of human conceits than to this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility save us to deal from more kindly ourselves. and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed. Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way. Carl Sagan

34 34 It is not scientific doubt, not atheism,not pantheism, not agnosticism,that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, churchgoing, hollow-hearted prosperity. Fredrick Huntington: Forum Magazine 1890

35 35 For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God. Romans 3:23 Why do we do this? To change people s worldviewand bring them to Christ!

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37 37 Session 1: Their Both Religions Session 2: How Old Is It? Session 3: It Was Good Session 4: Dinosaurs with Man Session 5: Fact vs Faith Session 6: The Truth of God

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