Acts 17:23

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• Acts 1723

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Some have the Idea that God does not Exist -
Atheism

• No atheist can emphatically affirm that there is
  no God unless he can affirm that he is both
  omniscient and omnipresent
• If he does not know everything then theres the
  possibility that he does not know about the true
  God
• If he cant be everywhere at once then there
  maybe a place that God is and he isnt

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Some have the Idea that Goddoes not Exist -
Atheism

• (Ps 141) The fool hath said in his heart, There
  is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
  abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
• (Ps 191) The heavens declare the glory of God
  and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
• (Heb 34) For every house is builded by some
  man but he that built all things is God.

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Some have the Idea thatGod is all things
Pantheism

• Pantheism, is the belief that the essence of God
  is in all things. It is often associated with
  nature religions, including many American Indian,
  African, and ancient Middle Eastern religions. In
  these religions, gods are connected with such
  things as storms, stars, the sky, the sea,
  fertility, and skill in hunting. In the Japanese
  Shinto tradition, gods are identified with
  natural objects, including rocks and trees. In a
  more general sense, pantheism refers to any
  religious philosophy that identifies God with
  nature.
• (World Book Encyclopedia)

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Some have the Idea thatGod is all things
Pantheism

• In a sense there is no such thing as God, God
  does not exist. And in another sense, there is
  nothing else but Godonly God exists. . . All is
  God. And because all is God, there is no God
• (Benjamin Crème, The Reappearance of the Christ
  and the Masters of Wisdom, p. 110)
• (Ps 902) Before the mountains were brought
  forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and
  the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,
  thou art God.

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Some have the Idea thatGod is all things
Pantheism

• (Rom 122-25) Professing themselves to be wise,
  they became fools, And changed the glory of the
  uncorruptible God into an image made like to
  corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
  beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also
  gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of
  their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies
  between themselves Who changed the truth of God
  into a lie, and worshipped and served the
  creature more than the Creator, who is blessed
  for ever. Amen.

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Some have the Idea that God Created and Left Man
Deism

• Deism, is a religious and philosophic belief.
  Deism rejects most conventional forms of
  religion, accepting reason as the only guide to
  truth. It embraces the concept of God, however,
  in the limited sense of a creator, or first
  cause, of the physical and moral laws of the
  universe. Deists compare God's act of creation to
  that of a watchmaker who builds a watch, sets it
  in motion, and then refuses to intervene in its
  actions.
• (World Book Encyclopedia)

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Some have the Idea that God Created and Left Man
Deism

• To Create a universe and intelligent beings and a
  moral code, but not care enough to give
  instruction to this creation, is unconceivable
  unreasonable
• Do we have children and then allow them to grow
  any way they feel without our intervention?
• (Prov 2215) Foolishness is bound in the heart
  of a child but the rod of correction shall drive
  it far from him.
• (Eph 64) And, ye fathers, provoke not your
  children to wrath but bring them up in the
  nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Some have the Idea that God Created and Left Man
Deism

• Fathers that do not take care for children we
  call Deadbeat Dads
• Are the Deist better and more righteous than God?
• (Job 417) Shall mortal man be more just than
  God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
• We think of Deadbeat Dads as morally wrong
• Their own doctrine makes God morally wrong!
• (Ps 14517) The Lord is righteous in all his
  ways, and holy in all his works.

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Some have the Idea that God Created and Left Man
Deism

• They accept reason as the only guide to truth
• Reason shows us that a just God which created us
  and gave us a moral law would give us instruction
  as a father gives his child!
• (2 Tim 316-17) All scripture is given by
  inspiration of God, and is profitable for
  doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
  instruction in righteousness That the man of God
  may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good
  works.

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Some have the Idea that Godspower is limited to
Evolution

• Theistic Evolution
• (Gen 11) In the beginning God created the
  Heaven and the earth.
• (Gen 126-27) And God said, Let us make man in
  our image, after our likeness and let them have
  dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
  fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
  all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
  creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in
  his own image, in the image of God created he
  him male and female created he them.

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Some have the Idea that Godspower is limited to
Evolution

• Words of Jesus Christ
• (John 13) All things were made by him and
  without him was not any thing made that was
  made.
• Good Credentials!
• (Matt 194) Have ye not read, that he which made
  them at the beginning made them male and female.
• (Mark 106) But from the beginning of the
  creation God made them male and female.

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Some have the Idea that God Evolved Over Time
with Mans Ideas

• They claim that Jehovah of the Old Testament was
  vengeful and the Jehovah of the New Testament is
  benevolent
• Over time Man went from primitive thinking to
  more modern thinking and his perception of God
  also Evolved MODERNISM
• Completely in disagreement with the truth!

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Some have the Idea that God Evolved Over Time
with Mans Ideas

• God is revealed to be just as fierce in the New
  Testament and just as benevolent in the Old
• (Mal 36) For I am the Lord, I change not
• Benevolence of the Old Testament
• (Psalms 23)
• Shepherd Protection
• I shall not want Sustaining
• Restoreth my soul Righteousness Mercy

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Some have the Idea that God Evolved Over Time
with Mans Ideas

• God is revealed to be just as fierce in the New
  Testament and just as benevolent in the Old
• (Mal 36) For I am the Lord, I change not
• Judgment of God in the New Testament
• (Acts 51-11) Ananias and Sapphira lied to the
  Holy Ghost and dropped dead!
• (Acts 1221-23) Herod he gave not God the
  glory and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the
  ghost.

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Some have the Idea that God Evolved Over Time
with Mans Ideas

• (Rom 1122) Behold therefore the goodness and
  severity of God on them which fell, severity
  but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in
  his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut
  off.
• God does not Change If we fail to obey, we will
  be lost!

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Some have the Idea that God is Physical and is
Like Man

• God is a Spiritual Being
• (John 423-24) But the hour cometh, and now is,
  when the true worshippers shall worship the
  Father in spirit and in truth for the Father
  seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit
  and they that worship him must worship him in
  spirit and in truth.

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Some have the Idea that God is Physical and is
Like Man

• Man thinks One Religion is as good as another so
  he thinks God feels this way too.
• (Matt 157-9) Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias
  prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh
  unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with
  their lips but their heart is far from me. But
  in vain they do worship me, teaching for
  doctrines the commandments of men.

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Some have the Idea that God is Physical and is
Like Man

• Man thinks One Religion is as good as another so
  he thinks God feels this way too.
• (Matt 1514) Let them alone they be blind
  leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the
  blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
• The One that will be accepted is the One that
  Obeys Gods will
• (Matt 721) Not every one that saith unto me,
  Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
  heaven but he that doeth the will of my Father
  which is in heaven.

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Some have the Idea that God is Physical and is
Like Man

• God is not like man our ways are not His ways!
• (Isa 557-9) Let the wicked forsake his way, and
  the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him
  return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon
  him and to our God, for he will abundantly
  pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
  neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
  are my ways higher than your ways, and my
  thoughts than your thoughts.

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Some have the Idea that Godis too Good to Condemn

• God is good and loves us more than we can
  comprehend
• (Rom 58) But God commendeth his love toward us,
  in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died
  for us.
• God is also just
• (Gal 67) Be not deceived God is not mocked
  for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
  reap.

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Some have the Idea that Godis too Good to Condemn

• Sow sin and reap punishment for sin
• (Isa 592) But your iniquities have separated
  between you and your God, and your sins have hid
  his face from you, that he will not hear.
• Man condemns himself
• (Acts 1346) Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold,
  and said, It was necessary that the word of God
  should first have been spoken to you but seeing
  ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy
  of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

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Some have the Idea that Godis too Good to Condemn

• God did his part to save us!
• (John 316-17) For God so loved the world, that
  he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
  believeth in him should not perish, but have
  everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into
  the world to condemn the world but that the
  world through him might be saved.
• (1 John 22) And he is the propitiation for our
  sins and not for ours only, but also for the
  sins of the whole world.

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Some have the Idea that Godis too Good to Condemn

• Jesus paid the debt that we owed
• (Acts 240) Save yourselves from this untoward
  generation.
• Save yourself not by paying the debt
• By being obedient to Gods commands!

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Be Obedient to His Commands

• Believe and Obey the Gospel of Christ
• (Mark 1615-16) Go ye into all the world, and
  preach the gospel to every creature. He that
  believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he
  that believeth not shall be damned.
• Endure in his doctrine unto the end
• (Mark 1313) And ye shall be hated of all men
  for my name's sake but he that shall endure unto
  the end, the same shall be saved.