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Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Is the God who exists the God of the Bible?

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one less god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Stephen F. Roberts

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

God’s we do well to reject:

We reject gods who are as sinful and flawed as we are.

Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Zeus and the Greek/Roma

n gods

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Europe is named after Europa who

was seduced by the god Zeus in the form of a bull and carried away to Crete on his

back.

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The Rape of Persephone

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

High priest Hilmar OrnHilmarssonand fellow

members of the Asatru Association

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Odinist Temple in Reykjavik, Iceland

Construction began in

February of this year.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

“I can make my god say anything I want him to.”

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

“God wants Joe Theismannto be happy.”

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

"Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden '?"

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

God’s we do well to reject:

We reject gods who are impersonal and dispassionate.

Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Baruch Spinoza’s God

“God is the indwelling, and not the transient cause

of all things.”

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Eastern Religions and God

My sweet lord (hallelujah)Hm, my lord (hallelujah)My sweet lord (hallelujah)

I really want to see youReally want to be with youReally want to see you lordBut it takes so long, my lord…

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What about Allah?

•Is Allah just another name for the God of Christians and Jews?

•What is the nature of the God of Islam?

•Is Allah a loving and personal God?

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•Amongst the Yoruba people in Nigeria there has been an attempt to syncretize Christianity and Islam into a single faith.

•This has also been popular amongst liberal theologians.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

•Muslims and Christians disagree concerning the Triune nature of God.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

•Muslims and Christians disagree concerning the cross.

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•Allah is a powerful, but dispassionate God.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

“Nowhere in the Qur’an do we find the idea that God

loves mankind. God’s love is conditional.”Pastor Ben Edwards

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

God’s we do well to reject:

We reject gods who are limited in power.

Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

“God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.”

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

God’s we do well to reject:

We reject gods and religions that provide no hope.

Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

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“Since I have come into this world, I must

live. If living means drinking poison, I have to drink it.”

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Buddhism’s First Noble Truth

All existence is suffering (dukkha)

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one less god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Stephen F. Roberts

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Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

1. A God who is greater than we are.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Isaiah 45:12

I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

2. A God who can be known personally.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

John 1722 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

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3. A God who can relate to the human experience.

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John 1

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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Hebrews 4:1515 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

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4. A God who really cares about us.

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Romans 5:8

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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5. A God who has things completely under control.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

6. A God who gives meaning and purpose to life.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Making the Case for God:Is the “God of the Bible” God?

7. A God who offers true fulfillment.

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