Message Series God’s Not Dead “A Reasonable Faith”

1. Message SeriesGod’s Not Dead“A Reasonable Faith”

2. 2 Cor4:1818 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

3. A) Limitations of the senses

5. Matt 13:1313 This is why I speak to them in parables:“Though seeing, they do not see;    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

6. 2 Cor4:44 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

7. B) Rational basis of belief

8. Romans 1:20-22

9. Hegel/German philosopher "What is reasonable is true...and what is true is reasonable"

10. Acts 14:17  17 Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”

11. Psalm 97:6The heavens proclaim his righteousness,    and all peoples see his glory

12. " Mitochondrial Eve"

13. Psalm 19:1-41 The heavens declare the glory of God;    the skies proclaim the work of his hands.2 Day after day they pour forth speech;    night after night they reveal knowledge.3 They have no speech, they use no words;    no sound is heard from them.4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,    their words to the ends of the world.In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

14. Aristotle called God the, "Unmoved Mover or "Prime cause'  from his work on 'Metaphysics'. "There must be an immortal, unchanging being, ultimately responsible for all wholeness and orderliness in the sensible universe." and “That the bare existence of change requires the postulation of a," first cause", an unmoved mover whose necessary existence underpins the ceaseless activity of the world of motion."

15. Plato “His work“ The laws“"The cosmos was "imparted motion", requiring, "self originated motion””

16.   Thomas Aquinas 13th century"Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name God"

17. Psalm 14:1-21 The fool says in his heart,    “There is no God.”They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;    there is no one who does good.2 The Lord looks down from heaven    on all mankindto see if there are any who understand,    any who seek God.

18. Pascal : Father of modern physics wrote in his ,"Penses“:"Knowledge without Jesus Christ is useless and barren."and " Though a man should be convinced that numerical proportions are immaterial truths, eternal and dependent on a first truth, in which they subsist, and which is called God, I should not think him far advanced towards his own salvation."

19. John 17:17  17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

20. Gen 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

21.  Maimonides wrote,"They have denied the Lord and said He is not"

22. Jer5:12They have lied about the Lord;    they said, “He will do nothing!No harm will come to us;    we will never see sword or famine.

23. Aristotle has proved the absurdity of the theory that the whole universe could have originated by chance; he has shown that on the contrary, there is a being that rules and governs the Universe."

24. Victor Frankl"Wisdom is knowledge plus:knowledge-and the knowledge of it's own limitations."