Edited Defending Your Faith Powerpoint
Edited Defending Your Faith Powerpoint
Edited Defending Your Faith Powerpoint
Apologetics?
• Apologetics is the defense of the
faith.
• Christian Apologetics is
presenting evidence for the
validity of Christianity.
Religion requires careful thought, not reflexive
acceptance. Fix reason firmly in her seat and
call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion.
Question with boldness even the existence of a
God because if there be one he must more
approve the homage of reason than that of
blindfolded fear.
YES!
• The historical evidence for
Christianity is not absolute,
but it is sufficient.
• There is a difference between
PROVING something
absolutely and KNOWING
something absolutely.
Optical Illusion
Misconception 3
“Truth is relative. If you believe
something, that is truth for you.”
TRUTH IS NOT
DEPENDENT ON BELIEF
Beaker of Water
• Believing something does not
make it true.
– Laws of Thermodynamics
• Why couldn’t the universe come
from impersonal matter/energy?
Figure 3-2
“Beginning with the impersonal, everything,
including man, must be explained in terms
of the impersonal plus time plus chance. Do
not let anyone divert your mind at this point.
There are no other factors in the formula,
because there are no other factors that
exist... . No one has ever demonstrated how
time plus chance, beginning with the
impersonal, can produce the needed
complexity of the universe, let alone the
personality of man.” – Francis Schaeffer
A. The Cosmological Argument
Therefore, the universe must have
been created by a personal, eternal
Being.
B. The Teleological Argument
Teleology- A reason or explanation
for something.
All the intricate DESIGN in the
universe argues for a purposeful
first cause.
A. The Cosmological Argument
Argument from CAUSE
outcomes.
This computes to one
success in 8.3 hundred
quadrillion quadrillion
attempts (8.3x10 )!
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If, as evolutionists would have us
believe, the earth has been in
existence for approximately 5 billion
years, then “chance” could take five
times this time to spell out “the
theory of evolution,” even at one
billion attempts per microsecond, a
phenomenal rate of experimentation.
According to Dembski, if
anything has had less than 1
in 10 chance of happening,
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Resurrection
Prophecy
Resurrection
Prophecy
Jesus is God
Resurrection
Prophecy
Jesus is God
Resurrection
Prophecy
Jesus is Infallible
He says the Bible He says He
is from God Is the only way
Jesus is God
Resurrection
Prophecy
House of David
Jeremiah 23:5 Luke 3:23, 31
Enter Jerusalem on a
donkey
Zechariah 9:9 Matthew 21:1–8
Prophecy Fulfillment
Born at Bethlehem
Micah 5:2 Matthew 2:1
Introduced by a messenger
Isaiah 40:3 Matthew 3:1–3
Jesus is a Legend
Jesus is a Guru.
The claim of deity was false. The claim of deity was true.
Jesus is LORD.