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1. Slide 1: God Does God Does Exist? Proof for God in 30 Seconds
2. Slide 2: God Does © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
3. Slide 3: God Does Exist? “Why do we have something rather than nothing at all?” - Martin Heidegger, “The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics” Comes back to – Does God exist? © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
4. Slide 4: God Does Exist? Four theoretical answers: • Reality is an illusion • Reality is/was self-created • Reality is self-existent (eternal) • Reality was created by something that is self- existent © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
5. Slide 5: God Does Exist? A simple proof for God • Something exists • Nothing cannot cause something • Therefore, a necessary and eternal Being exists - Jonathan Edwards (who massaged it from John Locke) © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
6. Slide 6: God Does Exist? Can the existence of God be proven in 30 seconds or less? © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
7. Slide 7: God Does Exist? Start the stopwatch…here we go. • I exist. • If I exist, then something must have always existed, because something doesn’t come from nothing. • So we have 2 choices: An impersonal eternality (the universe) or a personal eternality (God). • Science has disproven the concept of an eternal universe. • Therefore, God exists. © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
8. Slide 8: God Does Exist? I exist. You must exist to express doubt that you exist. Denying your existence is a self- defeating statement. “I think, therefore I am.” - Descartes © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
9. Slide 9: God Does Exist? If I exist, then something must have always existed because something doesn’t come from nothing. “Nothing is what rocks dream about.” - Aristotle, Philosopher “I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise without a cause.” - David Hume, Skeptic/Atheist © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
10. Slide 10: God Does Exist? How to think about true ‘nothingness’… particles matter …everything energy motion space © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
11. Slide 11: God Does Exist? True ‘nothingness’… © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
12. Slide 12: God Does Exist? Two Options: • An Eternal Universe (impersonal eternality) “The Cosmos is all there will ever be” – Carl Sagan. • An Eternal Creator (personal eternality) “In the beginning, God…” – Genesis. © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
13. Slide 13: God Does Exist? Science has disproven the concept of an eternal universe. The fact is: The Universe had a beginning. • Everything that has a beginning has a cause • The universe had a beginning • Therefore, the universe had a cause “Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant…I should like to find a genuine loophole.” – Sir Arthur Eddington © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
14. Slide 14: God Does Exist? Science has disproven the concept of an eternal universe. Proof Point 1: The universe is running down. • Something that is running down must have started at some point • The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the universe is running out of usable energy • If you doubt this, look in the mirror (you’re aging and running down) • First law of thermodynamics is philosophical in nature; can’t be empirically proven © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
15. Slide 15: God Does Exist? Science has disproven the concept of an eternal universe. Proof Point 2: The universe is expanding. • Confirmed through the Hubble telescope • It’s expanding from a single point • Universe is not expanding into space, but space itself is expanding • Commonly called the “Big Bang” – nothing, then BANG – something © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
16. Slide 16: God Does Exist? Science has disproven the concept of an eternal universe. Proof Point 3: Radiation echo. • Discovered by Bell Labs scientists Penzias and Wilson in 1965 • Afterglow from the Big Bang; won Penzias & Wilson Nobel Prize • Death blow to any theory of the universe being in a steady state © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
17. Slide 17: God Does Exist? Science has disproven the concept of an eternal universe. Proof Point 4: Galaxy Seeds. • If Big Bang was true, then temperature “ripples” should exist • These ripples would enable matter to collect into galaxies • Cosmic Background Explorer – COBE – launched in 1989 to find them • Findings released in 1992 – perfect/precise ripples found to enable galaxies to form “If you’re religious, it’s like looking at God” - George Smoot, NASA, COBE Lead © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
18. Slide 18: God Does Exist? Science has disproven the concept of an eternal universe. Proof Point 5: Einstein’s theory of relativity. • Einstein’s pantheistic bias originally influenced his original formula • He was proven wrong by another mathematician (he actually divided by zero) • Einstein called it the worst mistake he’d ever made • Theory demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and matter “I want to know how God created the universe” - Albert Einstein © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
19. Slide 19: God Does Exist? Still…some scientists try get around this fact by saying: • Life on earth originated from a rocket sent from outer space (F.H. Crick, co-discoverer of DNA and Richard Dawkins, famed atheist) • Collapsing universes (disproven from galaxy seeds; not enough energy) • Imaginary time (Stephen Hawking) \"If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.\" - Lord Kelvin, British Scientist “In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.” – Stephen Hawking © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
20. Slide 20: God Does Exist? Something else to consider on an impersonal eternality… Would it not be strange that an impersonal, amoral, and purposeless/meaningless universe accidentally created beings that are full of personality and so obsessed with right/wrong, meaning, and purpose? In addition, the question of unity and diversity arise. Unity may be explained by an impersonal eternality, but not diversity. An impersonal eternality means everything must come from impersonality plus time plus chance. No other factors are involved. © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
21. Slide 21: God Does Exist? The Personal, Infinite, and Triune God Father Is t no n ot Is God Spirit Son Is not Unity in Diversity © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
22. Slide 22: God Does Exist? An important note on ‘proof’ There is an important difference between the operational scientific and legal/forensic science methods for determining truth. The legal method does not ignore testimony or facts because they are not reproducible or testable. By a process of elimination and corroboration, the legal method allows history and testimony to speak for itself until a verdict is reached beyond a reasonable doubt and the balance of probability is achieved. “Yes your honor, our position is that my client’s fingerprints ended up on the gun through a random series of chemical reactions that occurred over a long period of time from particles that always existed…” © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
23. Slide 23: God Does Exist? The atheist’s response? “The universe is just there…” – Carl Sagan “There doesn’t need to be a reason…” – Atheist on Christian Forum When the atheist makes this statement, they do so by faith alone. Out the door go all the logic, science, reason, and touch-and-feel-it evidence atheists claim are so necessary to believe in God. Now it becomes a matter of the will. © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
24. Slide 24: God Does Exist? The atheist’s response? “Evolution disproves God.” How does evolution answer the question of existence? Only two choices – matter before mind or mind before matter. “It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.” – John Lennox © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
25. Slide 25: God Does Exist? OK, but…Who created God? Category mistake (e.g. Where is the bachelor’s wife?) Irrelevant as you must go back to an eternal ‘something’ The evidence points away from an impersonal eternal universe and toward a powerful, intelligent, moral personal Creator © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
26. Slide 26: God Does Exist? So…. • If I exist, and… • If something eternal exists (because something doesn’t come from nothing), and… • If there are only two possible eternal entities (an eternal universe or an eternal creator), and… • If an eternal universe has been disproven (and it has), then… An eternal Creator exists. © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
27. Slide 27: God Does Plain “Open your eyes, there it is!” – Romans 1:19 The Message © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
28. Slide 28: God Does Exist? Yes, God exists. • He is the reason we have something instead of nothing • He is the creator of the heavens and the earth • He is the reason you can read this right now – that you exist at all © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
29. Slide 29: God Does “In the beginning God created…” © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org
30. Slide 30: God Does God Does Exist? Yes, He Does! © Confident Christians – www.confidentchristians.org