answers to tough questions: applied apologetics – wk 5

Answers to tough questions:Applied Apologetics – Wk 5

Additional thoughts

• Any follow up questions?

• Did you go to the 9 AM service?

• Memory verse

• Did any one do the homework?

• God is using this material – a story

A statement

• I am an atheist and there is no evidence is that God exists?

Your thoughts/response

What did Paul say at Athens?

• "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. Acts 17:24-26

Discussion

• Evidence versus proof (only for math)

• The role of faith

• “In the beginning God” Genesis 1:1

Evidences for the existence of God

• Creation and design

• Conscience

• Miracles/resurrection

• The bible

• Changed lives

Atheist or agnostic?

• Take the atheist test

• A note about the banana

More

• Everyone is ______, it just depends on who you are worshipping

• Turn the conversation to ____

• A video example

Can you remember the 10 commandments?

Another atheist ad

Your responses

Analysis

• Mark 10:18"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone.

• Can you be good without God?• How is good defined? (Hitler sincerely thought

he was doing good by killing Jews)• Stalin was an atheist who killed millions and

thought he was doing good

Statement

• Jesus was just a good man

Your thoughts/responses

Suppose someone at school said:

• (I) have authority on earth to forgive sins

• I am the way, the truth and the life

• Before Abraham was, I am

Someone who makes these kind of statements is either a:

Liar LunaticLord

But not a good man…

Closing comments

• Memory verse: Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. Romans 10:17