If God Exists, Why ' ' '

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If God Exists, Why . . . ?
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• Genesis 127-28
• So God created man in his own image, in the image
  of God he created him male and female he created
  them. God blessed them and said to them, Be
  fruitful and increase in number fill the earth
  and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and
  the birds of the air and over every living
  creature that moves on the ground.

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• Genesis 129-31
• Then God said, I give you every seed-bearing
  plant on the face of the whole earth and every
  tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be
  yours for food. And to all the beasts of the
  earth and all the birds of the air and all the
  creatures that move on the groundeverything that
  has the breath of life in itI give every green
  plant for food. And it was so.

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• I. Types of Atheists

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I. Types of Atheists.

• A. The Foolish Atheist.
• Psalm 141 - The fool says in his heart, There
  is no God. They are corrupt, their deeds are
  vile there is no one who does good.

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I. Types of Atheists.

• A. The Foolish Atheist.
• 1. Fool (????? ) one who is both stupid
  immoral.
• Psalm 361 - There is no fear of God before his
  eyes.

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I. Types of Atheists.

• A. The Foolish Atheist.
• 1. Fool (????? ) one who is both stupid
  immoral.
• 2. If there is no God, there are no absolute
  standards!

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I. Types of Atheists.

• B. The Practical Atheist.

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I. Types of Atheists.

• B. The Practical Atheist.
• Psalm 104 - In his pride the wicked does not
  seek him in all his thoughts there is no room
  for God.

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I. Types of Atheists.

• B. The Practical Atheist.
• Psalm 104 - In his pride the wicked does not
  seek him in all his thoughts there is no room
  for God.
• Jeremiah 512 - They have lied about the LORD
  they said, He will do nothing! No harm will come
  to us we will never see sword or famine.

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I. Types of Atheists.

• B. The Practical Atheist.
• 1. God exists but He doesnt have any affect on
  our lives.

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I. Types of Atheists.

• B. The Practical Atheist.
• 1. God exists but He doesnt have any affect on
  our lives.
• 2. Deism God created us, gave us laws to live
  by then split!

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I. Types of Atheists.

• C. The Confused Atheist!
• I John 222-23 - Who is the liar? It is the man
  who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man
  is the antichristhe denies the Father and the
  Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father
  whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

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• I. Types of Atheists
• II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• A. What do you mean?

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• B. God created mankind in His image.
• Genesis 127 - So God created man in his own
  image, in the image of God he created him male
  and female he created them.

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• B. God created mankind in His image.
• 1. Image (?????) a statue, replica or copy
  used for idols of false gods.

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• B. God created mankind in His image.
• It also means essential nature as in a son is
  the image of his dad.
• Genesis 53 - When Adam had lived 130 years, he
  had a son in his own likeness, in his own image
  and he named him Seth.

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• B. God created mankind in His image.
• 2. You are more like God than anything else He
  created!

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• B. God created mankind in His image.
• 2. You are more like God than anything else He
  created!
• a. He enjoys your company.
• Genesis 38 - . . . God as he was walking in the
  garden in the cool of the day . . .

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• B. God created mankind in His image.
• 2. You are more like God than anything else He
  created!
• b. You have power in your words. I John 514-15
  - This is the confidence we have in approaching
  God that if we ask anything according to his
  will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears
  uswhatever we askwe know that we have what we
  asked of him.

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• B. God created mankind in His image.
• 2. You are more like God than anything else He
  created!
• c. You have free choice!

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• C. Satan tempts we yield!

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II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?

• C. Satan tempts we yield!
• Romans 623 - For the wages of sin is death, but
  the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
  our Lord.

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• I. Types of Atheists
• II. Why Does God Allow Injustice in Our World?
• III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
  to Affect Us?

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• A. What do you mean?

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• B. Mans sin has more affect than the obvious
  consequences of a sinful act.
• Exodus 205 - . . . I, the LORD your God, am a
  jealous God, punishing the children for the sin
  of the fathers to the third and fourth generation
  of those who hate me . . .

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• Creation Science View
• 1. The earth was enveloped in a watery canopy.

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• Creation Science View
• 1. The earth was enveloped in a watery canopy.
• 2. The whole earth experienced tropical weather.

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• Creation Science View
• 1. The earth was enveloped in a watery canopy.
• 2. The whole earth experienced tropical weather.
• 3. Most harmful Gamma Rays were filtered.
  (Explains Dinosaurs?)

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• Creation Science View
• 4. Noahs flood - canopy collapses water gushes
  up from the ground.

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• Creation Science View
• 4. Noahs flood - canopy callapses water gushes
  up from the ground.
• 5. From then on we have shorter lives adverse
  climate.

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• Jobs contribution
• 1. The Acts of God are the
• Acts of Satan.

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• Jobs contribution
• 1. The Acts of God are the
• Acts of Satan.
• 2. God limits Satan!

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• Jobs contribution
• 1. The Acts of God are the
• Acts of Satan.
• 2. God limits Satan!
• 3. God restores blesses the faithful!

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• D. God uses injustice natural calamities to
  discipline His children.
• Proverbs 311-12 - My son, do not despise the
  LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke,
  because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a
  father the son he delights in.

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III. Why Does God Allow the Natural Acts of God
to Affect Us?.

• D. God uses injustice natural calamities to
  discipline His children.
• Hebrews 127 - If you endure chastening, God
  deals with you as with sons.

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• Proverbs 308-9
• Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me
  only my daily bread.
• Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and
  say, Who is the LORD?
• Or
• I may become poor and steal,
• and so dishonor Your name.