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EVIDENCES. The Theory of Evolution is widely believed and defended A few billion years ago - back when Earth was new - rivers rolled down from barren mountains into great dead seas. Rain-storms squalled and lightning flashed. Lava hissed and spewed from giant volcanoes.
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The Theory of Evolution is widely believed and defended A few billion years ago - back when Earth was new - rivers rolled down from barren mountains into great dead seas. Rain-storms squalled and lightning flashed. Lava hissed and spewed from giant volcanoes. Nothing lived on that long-ago Earth. But the oceans were astir with promise - they swirled and simmered a primordial (all the elements) soup that held the raw materials of life.
Somehow, probably in the first billion years of our world's existence, that promise was fulfilled. A nondescript glob of chemicals crossed some vague and wondrous boundary to become the first living thing. From such unfeeling chemicals, Earth eventually filled with a teeming diversity of life, from microbes to Men. – "In the beginning," Robert Locke (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel, 1/26/80)
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Neh.9:6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Psm.33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. 8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
EX.20:9-11 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
EX.31:17 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. MK.10:6 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
THE ACCURACY OF ACTS Luke, the physician/historian mentions Thirty-two countries Fifty-four cities Nine Mediterranean islands He alludes to ninety-five different people, sixty-two of which are not mentioned by any other New Testament writer Twenty-seven of these are unbelievers, chiefly civil or military officials The book of Acts will definitely stand the test of historical examination.
THE ACCURACY OF THE BIBLE It doesn’t begin with: “In a land far, far away…”It doesn’t use mythical characters It doesn’t talk about “Never, Never Land” It gives names, places, dates
EXTERNAL EVIDENCES • Psm.19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun “Seeing is believing”
OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY WITH 400 BILLION STARS 100,000 Light Years across
HOW BIG IS GOD’S CREATION? Our Galaxy- 588,000,000,000,000 miles • 186,000 per second for 100,000 years
How Big Is Our Galaxy? 186,000 mps X 60 = Miles per Minute 11,160,000 Multiply that X 60 = Miles an Hour 669,600,000 Multiply that X 24 = Miles in a day 160,070,000,000 Multiply that X 365 = Miles in a year Multiply that X 100,000 = Miles in 100,000 Lt Yrs- 588 Septillion Miles
How Big Is Our Galaxy? Psm.19:1…the firmament sheweth his handywork. Firmament = Endless expanse
The Milky Way: Home of our Solar System ~ Sun to Pluto More recent estimates have given numbers around 400 billion stars • Our solar system is in the exact place it has to be in our galaxy or it would be pulled apart by gravity • Our sun is just the right size and distance from earth • Earth’s Ozone protects from harmful rays • All by chance? No design or Designer?
Andromeda galaxy, and its companions Nearest galaxy to earth, about 2 million light years away -186,000 mps. It has hundreds of billions stars
MILKY WAY - SMALL IN COMPARISON CONSTELLATION “HERCULES” • We see 100’s of blotches • Each is a galaxy with 100’s of billions stars • 2,500,000 known galaxies • Astronomers estimate over a trillion galaxies – each with billions of stars • Psm.147:4He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
OUR SUN Earth and moon (247,000 miles) could fit inside it even if the Sun had a wall of 500,000 miles thick Sun’s diameter – 870,000 It is 1,300,000 times larger than earth Sun’s light reaches us in 8 min. 19 sec. One star in the constellation “Orion” called Betelgeuse is 248 times larger than the Sun Antares in the constellation Scorpio is 400,000,000 miles in diameter
THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER 1. NEBULAR – A huge spinning blob began spinning faster and faster and chunks began breaking off until we have what we have today What question doesn’t this answer? Where did “The Blob” originate?
THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER 2. PLANETESIMAL - An intruder star from somewhere else in our galaxy came near the Sun, and as it did, the gravita-tional forces that were generated produced tidal forces that tore material out of the Sun which became the solar system What question doesn’t this answer? Where did the “Intruder Star & Sun” originate? Afterthought: Where’d water come from?
THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER 3.BIG BANG – 2 GIANT planets collided in space Question: Would the 100’s of billions of pieces all be round? All the same shape? What question doesn’t this answer? Where did the“ 2 GIANT planets” originate?
THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER 4. ANCIENT ASTRONAUT – All we see and are is the result of astronauts from other galaxies or other parts of our galaxy whose creative activity is revealed in us What question doesn’t this answer? Where did the“ Other Galaxies & Astronauts” originate?
THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MATTER 5.CONTINUOUS GENERATION – Matter is constantly being generated in the cosmos. The process by which this creation from nothing is taking place is not identified. They don’t know! They realize it has to have an origin But like the “Missing Link” you’d think they would have solved the problem by now. But anything is better than believing in God We know where we originated – “IN THE BEGINNING GOD…”
INTERNAL EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE THE SUSPENSION OF THE EARTH Men have had many different ideas • Hindu – Earth on the backs of 4 giant elephants, standing on the back of a giant turtle who was swimming in a sea of milk • Japanese – Earth on the back of a giant catfish • Greeks – Atlas had it on his back
INTERNAL EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE THE SUSPENSION OF THE EARTH • God says: Job26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. WRITTEN 4,000 YRS AGO WHICH IS CORRECT? Creation? Evolution?
BIBLE MEDICINE Moses was educated in Egypt, but didn’t follow their medical practices. They practiced blood-letting. Why? They thought disease originated in the blood U.S. practiced it G.Washington was “bled” Barbers practiced it - red/white symbol HOW DID MOSES KNOW? Lev.17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood 17:14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof
BIBLE MEDICINE Recently discovered that leprosy was spread through the breathe LEV.13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. How did Moses know this?
BIBLE PROPHECY DEUT.18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
JER.28:9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him. PROPHECY: BIRTH PLACE OF JESUS Micah 5:2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
FULFILLED: BIRTH PLACE OF JESUS Mt. 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. 5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the
prophet, 6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. They trusted the prophet
PROPHECY: BIRTH OF JESUS Isa.7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Mt.1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. 22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
PROPHESY OF KINGDOM: ISA.2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days,that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
LAST DAYS = ACTS 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: • ALL NATIONS = MK.16:15 Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature
FROM JERUSALEM = LK.24:46 Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. • Cf. Acts 2:38
EXTERNAL EVIDENCES • Rm.1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unright-eousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 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:
I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist To believe that it was dead, lifeless matter over mind that created heaven and earth To believe the human body is a matter of evolution Psm.139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.