Apologetics Chapter 7 Apologetics Be ready to give an answer I. Truth Absolute Truth

1. Apologetics Chapter 7 Apologetics Be ready to give an answer I. Truth Absolute Truth The Rock- God’s Word Truth that is true for everyone all the time. II. Relative Truth The Sand- Make your own truth Truth changes with feelings, environment and culture. Why Evolution does not work III. Biology Peptide bonds IV. Geology Flood caused layers and fossils V. Astronomy The moon is moving away 4cm a year Response to Richard Dawkins

2. What is Truth? Truth is telling it like it is. The statement that matches it’s object, reference or reality. Does Truth Change Truth that is always subject to change. It is subject to the perspective of people Bible, Book of Mormon, Quran Word of the Lord endures forever

10. Evolution vs. Creation If the Bible is source of Truth, how does it compare to the world’s beliefs? Origin of Life Chance + Time God created each kind Days of Creation 24 hour Days- Evidence of 24 Day Theistic Evolution- The Biblical Days of creation were lateral 24 hour days -Hebrew word used is yom. It is used 359 times and always means 24 hour days. -Context of day- morning and evening God used evolution to bring about the universe. Gap theory - each day is a billion years.

11. Can the evolution timeline and the Bible be right? What is most logical? Evolution Video Mutation

14. Dead Sea Scrolls Reading Highlight: Year found Where found (caves where) Who found them What people wrote them Why does it back up Bible Extra-Biblical Archeology Highlight 7 Examples What was found Who it goes with Where in the Bible

15. Interbiblical Evidence that the Bible is Reliable Fulfilled Prophecies Micah 5:2 Luke 2:4-7 Zechariah 12:10 John 19:34 Isaiah 53:9 Matt 27:57-60 Matt 24:2 Josephus -A.D. 70 the Romans under Titus John 21:18-19 Jerome- requested upside down crucified Prophecy First Written Fulfillment Jesus Born in Bethlehem Jesus pierced Tomb give to Jesus Temple would be destroyed Peter crucified Scientific Accuracy Hebrews 11:3- Psalms 135:7- Isaiah 40:22- Job 38:13-14- Job 26:7- Jeremiah 33:22- Judges 5:20- Lev 17:11- Psalms 103:14- Stars cannot be numbered Universe created out of nothing Water Cycle Blood sustains life Earth is suspended in space Earth and people are the same chemical composition Earth rotates on its axis Stars travel in a certain path Earth is a sphere

16. Does Science Prove Creation? Biology Amino Acids, life’s Building Blocks Evolutionary Model -electrical currents drive chemical reactions -molecules form amino acids -aminos bond to form Peptide bonds Problem with the Evolutionary Model -For evolution to occur, earth’s first atmosphere would have no oxygen. What is the problem with having no oxygen? -Peptide bonds are destroyed in the presence of oxygen -But oxygen is Needed to sustain life Did the early earth have oxygen? __________ The ozone is made of oxygen and without it ultraviolet rays would destroy biological molecules Oldest rocks Contain evidence of being formed In oxygen

17. Astronomy Our moon Video

18. Geological Layers Evolutionary explanation Creationist explanation Over 1,000s of years each layer was laid and contain fossils from that time. During the flood the layers were laid quickly, burying living things. What would you find if there was a worldwide flood? Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. Flood 1 Flood 2

20. Noah’s Ark

22. Average Horse Stall- 12x12 4 stalls a box car 2,000 Horse Stalls

23. Bellwork: -Write prayer request in Prayer Journal -Do Matt word search This Week: Thursday- Christmas Shop Friday- Memory verse quiz Romans 12:1-2 “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Matthew 28:19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”’

24. Absolute truth True for all persons at all times in all places Opinion Objective Vanilla ice cream has vanilla bean Favorite of ice cream Favorite color The sweatshirt is Navy blue Mr. McClure can run 5 miles in 35 minutes Mrs. Courtney’s favorite show is Duck Dynasty It is wrong to steal Hitler was wrong to kill the Jews There is only one God. Abortion is wrong Are morals Opinions or Objective?

25. Moral Truth Relative Moral Truth Source- Absolute Moral Truth Source- Why? Moral Absolutes are all around you Event- Moral Absolute that was offended- Response- Event- Moral Absolute that was offended- Response- determine what is right and wrong What is right and wrong can change Individuals culture Right and wrong is True for all persons at all times in all places God/ Intelligent Designer It’s His world/ He is omniscient Adolf Hitler/ Perfect Aryan race/ Holocaust Gen 1:27, Rom 2:11 All races/people are equal, Murder World War II Civil Rights Movement 1950s-1960s Col 3:11, Act 10:34-35 All races/people are equal Protests, leaders speak out,

26. Review the Evidence Biology How is protein built? How does oxygen effect this process? How do we know there was oxygen in the early atmosphere? Astronomy How fast is the moon moving away? Why does that prove the solar system is not 5 billion years old? How do we know the moon wasn’t really close? Geology Explain how the Genesis flood formed layer and fossils.