The document summarizes the contrasts between an atheist professor of anthropology and a Christian preacher sitting next to each other on a flight. Some of their key differences included: the atheist believing the world began with a big bang while the preacher said it would end with one, the atheist being interested in the age of rocks while the preacher's interest was in the Rock of Ages (Jesus), and the atheist seeing man creating God versus the preacher's view of God creating man.

1. Atheist Sat Next to Preacher
The Contrasts are Clear

2. Allen Webster
• Minister, Jacksonville, AL
• Editor and writer for House to House / Heart
to Heart
• On a mission trip to Tanzania, Africa
• Sat next to an atheist, a professor of
Anthropology

3. Big Bang
• Atheist – World began with a big bang
• Preacher – World will end with big bang
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as
a thief in the night, in which the heavens will
pass away with a great noise, and the
elements will melt with fervent heat; both the
earth and the works that are in it will be
burned up.

4. Big Bang
• Atheist – World began with a big bang
• Preacher – World will end with big bang
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Genesis 1 - “And God said” - 12 times in
chapter 1.

5. Big Bang
Psalm 33:6 By the word of the Lord the
heavens were made, And all the host of
them by the breath of His mouth.
Psalm 33:9 For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.

6. Interested in Rocks
• Atheist – Interested in the age of rocks
• Preacher – Interested in the Rock of Ages
Deuteronomy 32:17-18 17 They sacrificed to
demons, not to God, to gods they did not
know, to new gods, new arrivals that your
fathers did not fear. 18 Of the Rock who begot
you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten
the God who fathered you.

7. Interested in Rocks
1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the
same spiritual drink. For they drank of
that spiritual Rock that followed them,
and that Rock was Christ

8. Interested in Rocks
1 Peter 2:4-5 4 Coming to Him as to a living
stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by
God and precious, 5 you also, as living stones,
are being built up a spiritual house, a holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

9. Interested in Rocks
Psalm 19:1-2 The heavens declare the
glory of God; And the firmament
shows His handiwork. 2 Day unto day
utters speech, And night unto night
reveals knowledge.

10. Interested in Rocks
Psalm 8:3-4 3 When I consider Your
heavens, the work of Your fingers, The
moon and the stars, which You have
ordained, 4 What is man that You are
mindful of him, And the son of man
that You visit him?

11. Above Apes / Below Angels
Psalm 8:5-6 5 For You have made him a
little lower than the angels, And You have
crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You
have made him to have dominion over the
works of Your hands; You have put all
things under his feet,

12. Above Apes / Below Angels
Genesis 1:26-27 26 Then God said, "Let Us make
man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,
over all the earth and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created
man in His own image; in the image of God He
created him; male and female He created them.

13. Above Apes / Below Angels
Genesis 1:29-30 29 And God said, "See, I have
given you every herb that yields seed which is
on the face of all the earth, and every tree
whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for
food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to
every bird of the air, and to everything that
creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have
given every green herb for food"; and it was so.

14. Who Created Who?
Atheist – Man created God
Preacher – God created man
Where did the hen come from? Egg.
Where did the egg come from? Hen.
Where did the hen come from? Egg.

15. Who Created Who?
Genesis 1:21-22 21 So God created great sea
creatures and every living thing that moves,
with which the waters abounded, according to
their kind, and every winged bird according to
its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
birds multiply on the earth."

16. Seeking __________
Atheist – Seeking the missing links
Preacher – Seeking lost souls
Hebrews 3:4 For every house is built by
someone, but He who built all things is God.
There are NO missing links
For atheists – the chain is missing

17. Seeking __________
Luke 10:10 for the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save that which was lost."
Mark 16:15-16 15 And He said to them, "Go into
all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will
be saved; but he who does not believe will be
condemned.