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- Defend the faith
- “but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make
a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that
is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence” 1 Peter 3:15
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- Defend the faith
- Test the faith
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- Defend the faith
- Test the faith
- “Test everything. Hold on to the
good.” 1 Peter 3:15
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- Defend the faith
- Test the faith
- Know the faith
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- Defend the faith
- Test the faith
- Know the faith
- “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does
not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.” 2 Tim. 2:15
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- God has truthfully revealed Himself in many ways
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- God has truthfully revealed Himself in many ways
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- The Biblical Doctrine of Creation:.
- “In the beginning, God created
- the heavens and the earth”
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- 2. The Creator is Transcendent.
- “In the beginning, God created...”
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- 2. The Creator is Transcendent.
- “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
- Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
- “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
- So are My ways higher than your ways
- And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
- Isaiah 55:8,9
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- 3. The Creator is Sovereign.
- “...the heavens and the earth.”
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- “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood
through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”
- Romans 1:20
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- 4. The Creator is Purposeful.
- “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and
power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they
existed, and were created.”
- Revelation 4:11
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- 4. The Creator is Purposeful.
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- Young Earth Creationists assert that the Bible clearly teaches the
following:
- The earth was created in six
24-hour days less than 10,000 years ago
- The curse and the global flood
of Noah completely altered the physical world so that the current rules
do not apply
- The only trustworthy source of
information about the creation is found in the Bible.
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- Out of harmony with general revelation
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- Routinely reads between the lines, inserting miracle where the text indicates normal providence
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- An Ancient Creation Date Implies...
- A meaning of “day” other than 24
hours
- Hunger, suffering, and death of
animals before sin
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- “What conceivable purpose could God have had in interposing a billion
years of suffering and death in the animal kingdom ...? He is neither
cruel nor capricious, and would never be guilty of such pointless
sadism.” (Henry Morris)
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- “One of the hardest things to understand is how anyone who claims to
believe in a God of love can also believe in the geological ages, with
their supposed record of billions of years of suffering and death before
sin came into the world. This seems clearly to make God a God of waste
and cruelty rather than a God of wisdom and power and love.”
- “Surely He could devise a better plan than this...” (Henry Morris)
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- “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for thou
has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created”
- Rev. 4:11
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- “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the
first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, then
comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father,
when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all
His enemies under His feet….When all things are subjected to Him, then
the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all
things to Him, so that God may be all in all. (1 Corinthians 15:22 – 28)
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- Death and evil will be conquered
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- God will reign for all eternity
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- His glory will be demonstrated to the heavenly rulers
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- We will dwell with Him forever....
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- With all its suffering, this world is the best way to the best of all
worlds
- God loves us and desires our fellowship and well-being
- Yet more so, God’s eternal plan is conquer evil and demonstrate His
glory
- Never forget that God always planned to enter the creation and suffer
all things like us.
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Notes