1 / 16

Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

10 questions Christians will hope no one will ask What makes you sure God exists at all? (Especially when you can ’ t see, hear or touch him) Psalm 8 – 4 th May 2014. Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost. The Universe – God ’ s hand?. Whitfield Parish

tobias-gregory
Download Presentation

Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. 10 questions Christians will hope no one will ask What makes you sure God exists at all? (Especially when you can’t see, hear or touch him) Psalm 8 – 4th May 2014 Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  2. The Universe – God’s hand? Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  3. Theism v Naturalism Purpose v Accident Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  4. ‘Nothing matters, we are essentially all highly evolved monkeys clinging to a rock that is falling through space, and the rock itself is dying’ Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  5. ‘Our science is God’s science. He holds the responsibility for the whole scientific story…The remarkable order, consistency, reliability and fascinating complexity found in the scientific description of the universe are reflections of the order, consistency, reliability and complexity of God’s activity’. Sir John Houghton - Honorary Scientist of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Meteorological Office Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  6. 1. We can understand the universe ‘The only incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible’ Albert Einstein Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  7. ‘The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause for that order’ Richard Swinbourne – Philosopher and Scientist 2. Order in the universe Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  8. 3. The fine tuning of the universe "The remarkable fact is that the constants of physics seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life“ Stephen Hawking – A brief History of Time Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  9. Man and woman – God’s hand? 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (!) Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  10. Human character Our search for meaning and purpose ‘Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless’ Bertrand Russell (Atheist) Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  11. Human character Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  12. Human character Desire and longing – the God shaped hole? Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  13. Human character Who do we thank? Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  14. Human character Our awareness and desire for justice - a case for a universal moral order? ‘If God does not exist then everything is permissible’ Dostoyevsky Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  15. Don’t underestimate the power of YOUR STORY with GOD! Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

  16. Tips for speaking and listening to others • How did you reach your point of unbelief? • LISTEN – quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to get angry – James 1:19 • Past hurt? • Be patient • Deeper issues? Lifestyle? Hurts? Prejudices? Misunderstanding? • Bible tells us people are in a spiritual battle. Pray! • Love draws, disagreement separates Whitfield Parish Love God – Love each other – Love the lost

More Related