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THE BIGGEST LIE EVER TOLD

THE BIGGEST LIE EVER TOLD. THE FIRST THING JESUS THOUGHT OF TO TELL US ABOUT THE LAST DAYS:.

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THE BIGGEST LIE EVER TOLD

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  1. THE BIGGEST LIE EVER TOLD

  2. THE FIRST THING JESUS THOUGHT OF TO TELL US ABOUT THE LAST DAYS: 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them,Take heed that no man deceive you. Matt 24:3-4 (KJV)

  3. The view from the Mount of Olives

  4. What will happen just before Jesus comes back? ... that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 2 Thess 2:3-4 (KJV) In the 1900 years since this was written, no one has ever sat in the temple claiming to be God. It is still in the future.

  5. When the Temple is rebuilt, it will be somewhere in here.

  6. How is the “Man of sin” going to get people to follow him? ... Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thess 2:9-12 (KJV)

  7. What lie could be so strong that people refuse to love the truth and believe it instead? And what could this “strong delusion” be?

  8. THE FIRST LIE EVER RECORDED (Genesis chapter 3) Stage 1: “Hath God said?” Is this really the word of God? Stage 2: “Ye shall not surely die.” The Word of God is not reliable anyway. Stage 3: “Ye shall be as gods.” You don’t need God; mankind is going to keep getting better and better!

  9. SATAN’S TACTICS: STILL THE SAME Stage 1: Is the Bible really the word of God? After all, it’s changed so much that you don’t even know if it’s what was originally written. Stage 2: The Bible is not reliable anyway. It’s full of mistakes and contradictions. Stage 3: You don’t need God: mankind is evolving! Evolution is proven scientific fact.

  10. WHICH PART OF GOD’S WORD IS UNDER THE GREATEST ATTACK? “In the beginning God created.”

  11. DOES EVOLUTION MATTER? Reports across America indicate that a high percentage of Christian students – some say over 70% -- abandon the Christian faith within their first year of college. The most common reason: they cannot respond to evolutionary claims that contradict their faith, so they conclude Christianity is all a lie!How many Christian youths are “ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you” (1 Pet. 3:15)?

  12. THE FASTEST-GROWING RELIGION IN AMERICA: “NO RELIGION!” A 2009 survey by Trinity College shows that those who call themselves Christians have decreased to 76%, while “No religion” has increased to 15%. The biggest drop has been in churches that have abandoned the Bible.

  13. Why such a decrease in many churches? This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves… Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof… Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. (2 Tim 3:1-8) Is there a “form of godliness” in the shrinking churches?Of course! They are churches! BUT HOW POWERUL IS THEIR GOD?

  14. As of 3/27/09, almost 12,000 American MINISTERS have signed the “Clergy Letter Project” stating that they believe in evolution. 1,049 congregations held “Darwin Day” in February. Their God either:1. Doesn’t care if he tells the truth about how everything began, 2. Lied about it on purpose, or 3. Was not intelligent enough to tell the truth until Darwin did it for him. Having a form of godliness but denying its power!

  15. WHAT WE ARE CONSTANTLY TOLD: EVOLUTION IS SCIENCE CREATION IS NOTHING BUT RELIGION - THE BIBLE IS WRONG!

  16. IS IT DIFFICULT TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A CREATOR? Romans 1:18 - 23 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

  17. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO “KNOW” SOMETHING? 1. Personal Experience through the five senses. I know a bee sting hurts; I know how to ride a bike. 2. Reliance on Authority. I know the sun is 93 million miles away; Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. 3. Logic. I know 2 million + 2 million = 4 million, even though I’ve never counted that high. I know I have a brain, even though I’ve never seen it. 4. Feeling or Intuition. I know she’s the one for me; I know God has called me to the ministry.

  18. THE PREHISTORIC PAST 1. No living person haspersonal experience. 2. There are noeyewitness accountsexcept the Bible, which is unacceptable to skeptics. SO HOW DO WE “KNOW” ABOUT THE BEGINNING? ThroughLOGIC ONLY.

  19. HOW ABOUT APE-MEN?

  20. The Biblical Origin of Humans: The first man’s body was made miraculously from the dust of the earth. The first woman was made miraculously from part of his body. If Adam had not sinned, he and Eve would have lived forever. Theistic Evolution: (also known as “progressive creation”) The first humans were a pair of highly evolved apelike creatures into whom God placed souls. They came from biological parents who were slightly less advanced than they were. Since death had been here for billions of years, they had nothing to do with bringing it into the world. From birth, they were destined to die. Atheistic Evolution: Humans evolved by chance. There is no such thing as an eternal soul or spirit.

  21. But what about people who claim to believe in both God and evolution? It’s not the God of the Bible! Their idea of God is that he started the universe billions of years ago, then go out of the way and let everything run by evolution. SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT?

  22. EVOLUTION Death and struggle led to the existence of man. CREATION Man was the direct cause of death and struggle. If God used evolution, the Bible is false - but if the Bible is true, evolution is false.

  23. THE CLEAREST STATEMENT OF THE GOSPEL: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. (1 Cor. 15:1-8)

  24. Paul’s Defense of The Gospel (1 Cor. 15) Some denied the Future resurrection (v. 12) - the Promiseof the Gospel. Paul’s reply (v. 17-19) - this removes our Present hope - the Powerof the Gospel. Paul’s explanation for why Jesus had to die (v. 21-22, 45): The fall of Adam in the Past shows thePurposeof the Gospel. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (v. 21-22) And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (v. 45) If death was here before man sinned, then Adam was a myth. If theFirst Adam was a myth, then what do you need aLastAdam for?Jesus died because of something that never happened!

  25. NO DEATH BEFORE ADAM Gen. 1:29-30 - And God said, Behold, I have givenyouevery herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to everybeastof the earth, and to everyfowlof the air, and toevery thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so. Gen. 3:17 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:cursed [is] the groundfor thy sake... Rom. 8:19-22 - For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that thewhole creationgroaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

  26. NO DEATH BEFORE ADAM Isa. 11:6-8 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. Rom. 5:12-15 - Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned... Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come... For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 1 Cor. 15:21-22, 45 - For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.

  27. AN ATHEIST ON THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION Christianity has fought evolution because... evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of god. (sic) ...It becomes clear now that the whole justification of Jesus’ life and death is predicated on the existence of Adam and the forbidden fruit he and Eve ate. Without the original sin, who needs to be redeemed? Without Adam’s fall into a life of constant sin terminated by death, what purpose is there to Christianity? None. G. Richard Bozarth, “The Meaning of Evolution,” The American Atheist, Sept. 1978, p. 30

  28. THE PREHISTORIC PAST 1. No living person haspersonal experience. 2. There are noeyewitness accountsexcept the Bible, which is unacceptable to skeptics. SO HOW DO WE “KNOW” ABOUT THE BEGINNING? ThroughLOGIC ONLY.

  29. Logical Implications of Creation and Evolu-tion Concerning Fossil Apes and Humans: 1. If we evolved from some apelike ancestors, it would have taken millions of years. We should find a great many fossils of the transitional steps (ape-men). 2. If humans were created as humans and apes were created as apes, we should find a complete lack of ape-men in the fossil record.

  30. PRIMATE FOSSILS: FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. All the fossils of alleged human ancestors known today “would barely cover a billiard table.” (J. Reader, New Scientist, March 26, 1981) “...all the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a single coffin.” (L. Watson, Science Digest, May 1982) WHY SO FEW PRIMATE FOSSILS? EVOLUTION-- They just weren’t in the right place at the right time. CREATION -- The Flood produced most of the fossil record, so the creatures that were most mobile and intelligent (such as primates) would have been least likely to be buried and fossilized. Some primates may have been buried in LOCAL floods soon after the global flood (ca. 4500-4000 B.C.), but humans had not yet spread out from Babel!

  31. PRIMATE CLASSIFICATION Order Primates Suborder Prosimii Suborder Anthropoideia Lemurs/ Lorises Tarsiers Platyrrhines (New World Monkeys – Capuchin, squirrel monkey, howler, etc.) Catarrhines Old World Monkeys – (baboons, mandrills,macaques, etc.) Apes Humans

  32. OUR EVOLUTIONARY “FAMILY TREE” Chimpanzee Gorilla Man Orangutan Gibbon ??? Common ancestor ??? Common ancestor of Asian apes of African apes ????? Common ancestor of African apes and man ??? Common ancestor of hominoids Old World Monkeys New World Monkeys ??? Common ancestor of higher primates Lemurs/Lorises Tarsiers ??? Common ancestor of all primates ??? Transition from insectivores ??? Insectivore ancestor Question marks represent unknown forms.

  33. YEARS SINCE CREATION (Massoretic Text) 0 500 1000 1500 2000 1656 ADAM - 930 years ------------------------------------ SETH - 912 yrs ----------------------------- d. 1042 ENOSH - 905 yrs -------------------------- d. 1140 KENAN - 910 yrs -------------------------- d. 1235 MAHALALEL - 895 yrs ----------------- d. 1290 JARED - 962 yrs --------------------------------- d. 1422 ENOCH, 365 yrs (walked with God) METHUSALEH --------------- 969 yrs, d. 1656 LAMECH - 777 yrs --------------- d. 1652 NOAH - 950 yrs ------------------------------- d. 2006 Earth divided THE FLOOD Death of Noah Tower of Babel (between 1757 and 1996) SHEM - 600 yrs -------- d. 2157 Arpachshad, 438 --- d. 2096 Shelah, 433 -- d. 2126 Eber, 464 ------ d. 2187 Peleg, 239 -- d. 1996 Reu, 239 ----- d. 2026 Serug, 230 - d. 2049 Nahor-- 147, d. 1997 Terah ----- 205, d. 2082 Abraham- 195, d. 2122 Isaac ---- 180, d. 2227 Jacob- 149, d. 2254 Death of Adam

  34. The Geologic (Evolutionary) Time Scale ERA PERIOD EPOCH Approx. Beginning (Years Ago) Cenozoic Quaternary Holocene (Recent) 10,000 Pleistocene 1.8 million Tertiary Pliocene 5.3 million Miocene 23.8 million Oligocene 33.7 million Eocene 54.8 million Paleocene 65 million Mesozoic Cretaceous 144 million Jurassic 206 million Triassic 248 million Paleozoic Permian 290 million Pennsylvanian 323 million } CARBON- Mississippian 354 million } IFEROUS Devonian 417 million Silurian 443 million Ordovician 490 million Cambrian 543 million Archaeozoic Precambrian 4.5 billion (incl. Ediacaran or Vendian, 650 million) Source: Univ. of Calif. Museum of Paleontology

  35. DOES JESUS KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD? John 1:1 - 3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Col 1:13-17 ... his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: Forby him were all things created,that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:all things were created by him, and for him:And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

  36. New Testament Clues for a Young Earth J E S U S P A U L “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife...” (Mark 10:6-7, quoting Gen. 2:24, the creation of Eve and the origin of marriage). He didn’t say “In the last one millionth of earth’s history.” “... he [the devil] was a murderer from the beginning...” (Jn. 8:44) He didn’t say “he became a murderer after millions of years.” “... the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God...” (Eph. 3:10). Did God have to wait through 4.5 billion years of evolution be-fore He could accomplish His purposes through the Church?

  37. HOW LUCIFER BECAME THE DEVIL How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congrega-tion, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isa. 14:12-14) WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth... (Ezek 28:12-14) Lucifer was still beautiful when he first went into Eden!

  38. REASONS PEOPLE BELIEVE THE EARTH IS OLD: 1. Belief that it takes millions of years to form a fossil. 2. Radiometric dating. 3. Geologic features (separation of con-tinents, Grand Canyon, etc.) that are supposed to have taken millions of years to form.

  39. IF THERE WAS A WORLDWIDE FLOOD, WHAT WOULD WE EXPECT TO FIND? Billions and billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the whole earth, even on top of the highest mountains. WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY FIND? Billions and billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the whole earth, even on top of the highest mountains!

  40. HOW DO YOU MAKE A FOSSIL? 1. Bury something quickly so it doesn’t rot. 2. Make sure the right kind of minerals are in the mud or water. 3. Apply lots of heat and pressure. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE? CHICKEN BONES: ? OIL: ?

  41. You may have heard that it takes millions of years to make a fossil. Wrong! • Chicken bones have been turned into mineralized fossils in laboratories in 5 to 10 years. • Organic garbage (banana peels, etc.) has been turned into crude oil, otherwise known as “fossil fuel,” in as little as 20 minutes. • Spark plugs are often used as fishing sinkers in Durban, S. Africa. The water has such a high concentration of minerals that they become coated and look like fossils in just a few years! Spark plugs from Durban harbor Courtesy of Joshua Gilbert

  42. THE FOUNDATION OF EVOLUTION: Uniformitarianism. This is the UNPROVABLE geological doctrine (a statement of FAITH) that everything happens by slow, gradual, uniform processes. (“The present is the key to the past.”) There can never have been a worldwide flood. The Bible warns us: First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation. They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water, through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. (2 Peter 3:3-7 RSV)

  43. The Geologic (Evolutionary) Time Scale ERA PERIOD EPOCH Approx. Beginning (Years Ago) Cenozoic Quaternary Holocene (Recent) 10,000 Pleistocene 1.8 million Tertiary Pliocene 5.3 million Miocene 23.8 million Oligocene 33.7 million Eocene 54.8 million Paleocene 65 million Mesozoic Cretaceous 144 million Jurassic 206 million Triassic 248 million Paleozoic Permian 290 million Pennsylvanian 323 million } CARBON- Mississippian 354 million } IFEROUS Devonian 417 million Silurian 443 million Ordovician 490 million Cambrian 543 million Archaeozoic Precambrian 4.5 billion (incl. Ediacaran or Vendian, 650 million) Source: Univ. of Calif. Museum of Paleontology

  44. LOWER MAMMAL ANCESTOR OF PRIMATES UNKNOWN! Because there is nothing else to offer in its place, theonly candidate is an insectivore called Tupaiia (a tree shrew). Besides having major physical and anatomical differences from primates, the tree shrew appears in the wrong layer of the fossil record to be their ancestor. The hypothetical ancestor of primates should have evolved millions of years earlier than the primates themselves. However, tree shrews first appear in the same geologic layer as primates (the Eocene). According to evolution, this is millions of years too late.

  45. ANCESTOR OF PROSIMIANS UNKNOWN! Lemurs, Lorises, and Tarsiers all appear in the fossil record in Eocene rocks (the same layer as tree shrews), sud- denly and fully formed, with no known ancestry. None of them have evolved since then. Smilodectes, an Eocene lemur Artist’s conception of Smilodectes (Denver Museum of Natural History)

  46. WHAT ABOUT DARWINIUS MASILLAE (“Ida”)? One of the latest “missing links,” Darwinius masillae, was announced in 2009 with a great deal of hype as absolute proof of evolution. It is nothing more than the most complete lemur skeleton known so far. It’s not even the oldest! It was first discov-ered in 1983. Why did they wait so long? Wikimedia Commons image Since this now “proves” evolution, that means all the previous claims were lies! Of course this one is absolutely true, right? (Until the next one!)

  47. OUR EVOLUTIONARY “FAMILY TREE” Chimpanzee Gorilla Man Orangutan Gibbon ??? Common ancestor ??? Common ancestor of Asian apes of African apes ????? Common ancestor of African apes and man ??? Common ancestor of hominoids Old World Monkeys New World Monkeys ??? Common ancestor of higher primates Lemurs/Lorises Tarsiers ??? Common ancestor of all primates - UNKNOWN ??? Transition from insectivores - UNKNOWN ??? Insectivore ancestor - UNKNOWN Question marks represent unknown forms.

  48. The Geologic (Evolutionary) Time Scale ERA PERIOD EPOCH Approx. Beginning (Years Ago) Cenozoic Quaternary Holocene (Recent) 10,000 Pleistocene 1.8 million Tertiary Pliocene 5.3 million Miocene 23.8 million Oligocene 33.7 million Eocene 54.8 million Paleocene 65 million Mesozoic Cretaceous 144 million Jurassic 206 million Triassic 248 million Paleozoic Permian 290 million Pennsylvanian 323 million } CARBON- Mississippian 354 million } IFEROUS Devonian 417 million Silurian 443 million Ordovician 490 million Cambrian 543 million Archaeozoic Precambrian 4.5 billion (incl. Ediacaran or Vendian, 650 million) Source: Univ. of Calif. Museum of Paleontology

  49. ANCESTOR OF MONKEYS UNKNOWN! OLD WORLD MONKEYS include: Guenon monkeys, mangabeys, macaques, rhesus monkeys, drills, mandrills, baboons, langurs, proboscis monkeys, guereza monkeys, etc. NEW WORLD MONKEYS include: Capuchins, squirrel monkeys, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, marmosets, etc. The first monkeys appear suddenly and fully formed in the Oligocene layer. Even the “later” modern types appear in the fossil rec- ord suddenly with no known ancestors. Skull of Aegyptopithecus, believed to be an Oligocene monkey (Denver Museum)

  50. OUR EVOLUTIONARY “FAMILY TREE” Chimpanzee Gorilla Man Orangutan Gibbon ??? Common ancestor ??? Common ancestor of Asian apes of African apes ????? Common ancestor of African apes and man ??? Common ancestor of hominoids Old World Monkeys New World Monkeys ??? Common ancestor of higher primates - UNKNOWN Lemurs/Lorises Tarsiers ??? Common ancestor of all primates - UNKNOWN ??? Transition from insectivores - UNKNOWN ??? Insectivore ancestor - UNKNOWN Question marks represent unknown forms.

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