Apologetics Defending your faith - PowerPoint Presentation

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Apologetics

Defending your faithSlide2

4 Misconceptions

“Christianity must be proven scientifically”Slide3

Scientific Method:

- Controlled Environment

- Experiment

-

Repeateable Slide4

Legal/Historical Method:

- Written

- Oral

- PhysicalSlide5

Misconception #2

“There is not enough evidence for me to be 100% sure”Slide6

“ There is enough evidence to convince anyone who is not set against it, but not enough to bring anyone into the kingdom who will not come”

Blaise

PacallSlide7

Misconception #3

“Truth is relative. If you believe something than that is truth to you”Slide8

Misconception #4

“It does not matter what you believe as long as you are sincere”Slide9

Is there a God? –

Chp

. 3

ApologeticsSlide10

Can anyone know there is NOT a God?Slide11

Pascal’s Wager:

Either God exists or He doesn’t. What would be wiser – to believe He does exist or to believe He doesn’t? Slide12

The Cosmological Argument:

Everything must have an explanation

Universe could not have come from nothing

Universe could not have always existed as it is

Universe could not have come from impersonal energySlide13

The Teleological Argument:

All of the intricate design in the universe argues for a purposeful first cause.Slide14

The Human EyeSlide15

The Anthropic Principle:

The earth has exactly the right conditions for human life. Slide16

The Moral Argument:

We all have a sense of right and wrong – must be from a supreme law giver.Slide17

The Great Objection:

If there is a good and omnipotent God, then why is there evil and suffering in the world?Slide18

Answer to the Objection:

The problem of Evil shows that there is a God.

There is Evil because humans abused their freedom.

God made humans because He wanted them to love Him.

The amount of suffering shows how serious sin is. Slide19

#4 – Creation Apologetics

August 6, 2017Slide20

Creation Apologetics

Both the claim for evolution and the claim for creation are propositions that have to be

taken by faith

.Slide21

Creation Apologetics

Does what we see around us best fit the expectations of

evolution or creation?Slide22

Creation Apologetics

Which approach is most consistent with the

evidence?Slide23

The Law of Biogenesis

Life

only comes from

LifeSlide24

Law of Biogenesis

A few evolutionists propose that life was transported from another

planet

to the earth.Slide25

Law of Biogenesis

Evolution is not

scientific

when it comes to the Law of Biogenesis vs. Spontaneous Generation. Slide26

The Law of Probability

Is there enough time in the universe for

Chance

to produce the intricate

Design

we see around us?Slide27

The Law of Probability

What is the ‘chance’ of getting a

‘Head’

and throwing a six at the same time?Slide28

The Law of Probability

Half of the time the die lands showing a six, the coin will show a tail, the other half of the time we throw a six, the coin would show a

head

. So the probability of throwing the head and the six together, must be one half of the sixes, or put mathematically, ½ x 1/6. This, of course, is

1/12

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The Law of Probability

Statisticians have made this into a rule called the

MULTIPLICATION

rule of probability. Slide30

The Law of Probability

Chance requires

10 Billion

attempts, on average, to count from 1 to 10. Slide31

The Law of Probability

‘Chance’ will, on average, spell ‘the theory of evolution’ correctly only 1 in

27

23

outcomes. Slide32

The Law of Probability

The computes to one success in 8.3 hundred quadrillion

quadrillion

attempts. Slide33

The Law of Probability

If, as evolutionists would have us believe, the earth has been in existence for approximately

5 billion

years, then ‘chance’ could take

5

times this to spell out “the theory of evolution”, even at one billion attempts per microsecond, a phenomenal rate of experimentation. Slide34

The Law of Probability

According to

Dembski

, if anything has had less than 1 in

10

150

chance of happening, it just could not have happened by chance. Slide35

The Law of Probability

Evolutionist Julian Huxley said that the odds that the horse evolved was 1 chance in

10

3,000,000

, but that it still happened thanks to natural selection. Slide36

5 – More Creation Slide37

Laws of Thermodynamics

If the universe has always existed with a

fixed

amount of energy, and more and more energy has become

unusable

, then by now the universe would be

completely

“run down” and we wouldn’t be here. Slide38

The Fossil Record

If evolution were true, then you would expect to see thousands of transitional forms in the fossil record. But after more than 150 years of digging, there are

fewer

examples of so-called transitional forms than in Darwin’s day. Slide39

The Fossil Record

Creationists predict there would be

distinct

kinds of organism, based on what God made on Day 3, Day 5, and Day 6 of Creation Week.

Distinct

kinds of plants and animals are what we see in the fossil record. Slide40

The Fossil Record

The fossil record suggests that the biblical creation is a much more

reasonable

proposition than evolution. Slide41

The Law of Genetics

Evolutionists argue that the variations among the kinds of animals, such as all the different kinds of dogs, are

proof

of the evolution that occurred through

mutations

and natural selection. Slide42

The Law of Genetics

But most of the changes we see within different kinds of animals are not due to mutations, but to different combinations of genetic information that has

always

been in their DNA. Slide43

The Law of Genetics

The various breeds of dogs that we see today actually have

less

genetic information than the original dog kind, not

more

information. Slide44

The Law of Genetics

A mutation can change existing genes, and thereby change (corrupt) the information of the DNA, but a mutation cannot add

new

information to DNA. Slide45

The Law of Genetics

Creationists would expect there to be

limits

to change within the various kinds of organisms. The observations of life around us indicate that there

are

limits to change. Slide46

The Law of Genetics

Evolutionists would expect to see evidence of change from one major kind of organism to another. The evidence the evolutionist want is

not

there. Slide47

The Young Earth

90%

of the dating methods used to determine the age of the earth argue for a young earth. Slide48

The Young Earth

The Young Faint Sun Paradox: Life could not have evolved on earth billions of years ago since the sun would have been fainter in the past and thus the earth would have been too

cold

for life. Slide49

The Young Earth

Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some

dinosaur

bones. Slide50

The Young Earth

The moon is slowly receding from earth at about

1 ½”

per year. Slide51

The Young Earth

Salt is pouring into the sea much faster than it is escaping. The sea is not nearly salty enough for this to have been happening for

billions

of years. Slide52

6 – Argument for ChristianitySlide53

Arguments for Christianity

Premise A:

The New Testament is historically accurate; it is a

reliable

and trustworthy document. Slide54

Arguments for Christianity

Premise B:

On the basis of this reliable document, we have sufficient evidence to believe that Jesus

rose

from the dead as He predicted He would, and that He fulfilled dozens of other Messianic prophecies. Slide55

Arguments for Christianity

Premise C:

Jesus’ Resurrection and fulfillment of prophecy show that He was who He said He was: the

Messiah

, the Son of God –

God

in the flesh. Slide56

Arguments for Christianity

Premise D:

Because Jesus is God, He is

infallible

– What He says is absolutely trustworthy. Slide57

Arguments for Christianity

Premise E:

Jesus Christ taught that the Bible was the

Word of God

.Slide58

Arguments for Christianity

Conclusion:

If Christ said it, we must believe it – The Bible is the Word of

God

, and Jesus is the only way to God. Therefore Christianity is true.