genesis

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Gods operations
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How do we know God?
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HOW DO WE KNOW GOD?

• ORIGINS OF THE CREATOR
• PROOFS OF THE CREATOR
• ATTRIBUTES OF THE CREATOR

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Origins of the Creator
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Genesis 11
In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth.
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Origins of the Creator

• Genesis 11 Science demonstrate that the
  universe has a definite beginning.
• Time, space, matter, energy all began at some
  definite point.
• Scientific Evidence supports thisand the Bible
  claims it!

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Origins of the Creator

• People argue that nothing comes from nothing. I
  couldnt agree more!
• Origins of the Creator is that He is the
  Self-existent One.
• He has always existed.
• He is eternal.
• He is outside of time, matter, energy and space.

God needs no beginning.
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Origins of the Creator

• God replied to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. ( or I AM
  because I AM) This is what you are to say to the
  Israelites I AM has sent me to you.
• Ex 314 (HCSB)

God needs no beginning.
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Proofs of the Creator
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Proofs of a Creator

• What keeps us from
• knowing God?
• What keeps us from
• seeing God?

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Proofs of a Creator

• The fool says in his heart, God does not exist.
  
• Psalms 141 (HCSB)

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Proofs of the Creator

• First, be aware of this scoffers will come in
  the last
• days to scoff, following their own lusts,
  4 saying,
• Where is the promise of His coming? For ever
  since
• the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as
  they
• have been since the beginning of creation.
  5 They
• willfully ignore this long ago the heavens and
  the
• earth existed out of water and through water by
  the
• word of God
• 2 Peter 33-5 (HCSB)

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Proofs of the Creator

• Inner Sense Argument
• Cosmological Argument
• Teleological Argument
• Moral Argument
• Scriptural Argument

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Proofs of the Creator

• INNER SENSE ARGUMENT There seems to be an inner
  sense of God in all people. As if a Creator
  embedded this into the genetic code of life.
  (Romans 1)
• COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT The theory of first cause
  supports a supernatural designer. The first cause
  of creation is God the Creator. (Genesis 11)
• He is the first cause of all things. First cause
  of space, time, variety, complexity,
  consciousness, felling, will, ethics, values,
  righteousness, justice, holiness, love, life etc.
  

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Proofs of the Creator

• Teleological Argument Creation gives evidence
  of harmony, order, and design which supports an
  intelligence purpose behind all of life. Random
  processes simply cannot logically explain life.
  (Genesis 1)
• Ontological Argument Our existence must belong
  to a supernatural being because it is greater to
  exist than not to exist. It is unimaginable and
  illogical to say there is no God. (Psalm 141)

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Proofs of the Creator

• Moral Argument Sense of right and wrong
  embedded in all people.
• Scriptural Argument The Bible leads to no other
  conclusion than a Creator God. (Genesis 1 John
  1)

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Proofs of the Creator

• For Gods wrath is revealed from heaven
• against all godlessness and unrighteous-
• ness of people who by their unrighteous-
• ness suppress the truth, 19 since what
• can be known about God is evident
• among them, because God has shown it
• to them.
• Romans 118-19 (HCSB)

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Attributes of God
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ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

• God is independent He needs no one.
• God is eternal He has always been, having no
  beginning or end.
• God is Omnipresent He is not limited by time or
  space.
• God is Omniscient He fully knows all things.
• God is Omnipotent He can do anything, all
  powerful.
• God is all wise He knows what is best.
• God is Spirit He exists as a being not made of
  matter, has no dimensions, and is the most
  excellent of all kinds of existence.

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We can Know the Creator

• From the creation of the world
• His invisible attributes, that is,
• His eternal power and divine
• nature, have been clearly seen,
• being understood through what
• He has made. As a result, people
• are without excuse.
• Romans 120 (HCSB)

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How do we know God?
We Can Know God!
The fool says in his heart, God does not exist.
Psalms 141 (HCSB)