Fundamentals of Faith

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Fundamentals of Faith

• Why We Believe What We Believe

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Fundamentals

• Why we believe the Bible is Gods word.
• Why we believe in the God of the Bible.
• Why we believe in Jesus is Savior Lord.
• Why we believe in heaven and hell.
• Why we believe the church is important.
• Why we believe we must worship correctly.

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IN GOD, Part II

• Why We Believe

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Does God Exist?
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Genesis 11 John 11 Hebrews 11 Psalms 191
141 Romans 119-20
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Gen. 11, In the beginning GOD created heaven
and earth John 11-2, In the beginning was the
Word and the Word was with God and the Word was
God he was in the beginning with God. Heb.
11, Long ago, at many times and in many ways,
GOD spoke to our fathers by the prophets Psalm
191, the heavens declare the glory of God and
the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 141,
The fool says in His heart, there is no God.
Romans 119-20, For what can be known about God
is plain to them, because God has shown it to
them. For His invisible attributes, namely, His
eternal power and divine nature, have been
clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the
world, in the things that have been made. So,
they are without excuse.
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Atheists say

• Religion leads to violence (and Christianity is
  no different).
• God is just an invention designed to console
  losers.
• Religious faith is a leap in the dark without
  any reliable basis.
• The natural sciences have disproved God.

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Science Word Origin

• Knowledge acquired by study from L. scientia,
  to know
• Probably originally to separate one thing from
  another, to distinguish (discern).
• Natural sciences, one of three divisions
  social (e.g., psychology) formal (e.g.,
  mathematics), natural (e.g., physics, biology,
  etc.)

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Science as used today.
N. 1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with
a body of facts or truths systematically
arranged and showing the operation of general
laws. 2. systematic knowledge of the physical or
material world gained through observation and
experimentation.
systematic having, showing, or involving a
system, method, or plan a systematic course of
reading systematic efforts.
The Scientific Method
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Arrogant Science Scientism

• Were scientists you can tell we are scientists
  because we wear white coats. Science can tell us
  everything we need to know about anything. You
  cant know anything without us. Any scientist
  worth his salt would not believe in supernatural
  forces and could never believe in God.

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Peter Atkins, Oxford chemist There is no reason
to suppose that science cannot deal with every
aspect of existence. Bertrand Russell Whatever
knowledge is attainable, must be attained by
scientific methods and what science cannot
discover, mankind cannot know. Therefore The
universe is nothing but a collection of atoms in
motion Richard Dawkins You, your joys and your
sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense
of personal identity and free will, are in fact
no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of
nerve cells and their associated molecules
Francis Crick, molecular biologist, co-discover
of DNA
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Myth all scientists are atheists

• Since 1916, polls have consistently shown that
  about 40 of scientists are believers.
• Notable scientists philosophers

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Science and a belief in God are not inconsistent!

• I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no
  conflict between those world views.
• As the director of the Human Genome Project, I
  have led a consortium of scientists to read out
  the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our
  own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see
  DNA, the information molecule of all living
  things, as Gods language, and the elegance and
  complexity of our own bodies and the rest of
  nature as a reflection of Gods plan.
• Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
• Author of The Language of God A Scientist
  Presents Evidence for Belief.

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Science has disproved God

• Scientists critical of God, like Richard Dawkins,
  abandon science when making their assertions.
• We speak as the oracles of God (I Pet. 411).
  Secular scientist should speak scientifically
  or be quiet.
• The scientific method cannot answer why?
  questions.

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Its not science its a worldview

• Our willingness to accept scientific claims that
  are against common sense is the key to an
  understanding of the real struggle between
  science and the supernatural. We take the side of
  science in spite of the patent absurdity of some
  of its constructs, in spite of its failure to
  fulfill many of its extravagant promises of
  health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the
  scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so
  stories, because we have a prior commitment, a
  commitment to materialism. It is not that the
  methods and institutions of science somehow
  compel us to accept a material explanation of the
  phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we
  are forced by our a priori adherence to material
  causes to create an apparatus of investigation
  and a set of concepts that produce material
  explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no
  matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
• Richard Lewontin, Evolutionary Biologist,Billions
  and Billions of Demons, NY Times Review of
  Books, 1997

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Choose
Our universe is simply one of those things which
happen from time to time. E. Tryton, Is the
Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation, Nature 246
(1973). In the beginning, God created the
heavens and earth. God, who was there in the
beginning.