1st 2nd Article Flashcards
Using an illustration we talked about in class, tell me two very different views offered from the scientific community and the Christian community.
A believer and nonbeliever walk into the garden of Eve on day 8. They see Adam and Eve, cut a tree in half and a mountains layers. They interpret their finding according to very different ideas. The Christian says everything was created supernaturally within a week. The nonbeliever denies the supernatural possibilities in genesis and strives to explains what he sees naturally. He therefore assumes everything we see came about over a lot of time and seeks to explain everything without God
Your Father in heaven.
Evolution
Bible
Evolution- there is none
Bible- God is Father
Your identity
Evolution- result of natural process
Bible- God’s child
Your hope
Evolution- no hope
Bible- eternal hope
Your life
Evolution- accident and temporary
Bible- planned and eternal
Your pain and suffering
Evolution- natural and unstoppable
Bible- unnatural but God will end it one day in Christ
Your happiness
Evolution- temporary
Bible- eternal
Your sin
Evolution- Corruption is natural
Bible- corruption needs a cure which God provides
Your savior
Evolution- there is none
Bible- Jesus Christ
Our death
Evolution- the end of your existence
Bible- the beginning in Christ
The Bible
Evolution- Lies
Bible- God’s truth
If God knew that the devil would bring sin death and all evil into the work by tempting Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree why did he create it?
God created the tree for us to not eat from as a way for us to freely show him love. If he had not given us such a command we could not have shown him love freely.
Still isn’t God ultimately responsible for evil since he could stop it?
No. By definition evil is the absence of God. When we sinned we drove God out and now suffer evil as a result. Besides God did put an end to all evil when he sent Jesus to die in the cross. It’s only a matter of time before Jesus ends evil forever
What is the real threat to humanity who brought it into the world and how?
Death Satan Sin
In order for someone to save us from death what must they provide?
A perfect life in our place and payment for all our sin which is the penalty of temporal and eternal death.
Why did Jesus have to be born of a Virgin?
To be a man without sin
To be born obligated to keep the law for us to die and pay for our sins
Give me a few proofs that Jesus did in fact, exist and is the greatest human being to ever walk the earth?
My birthday year is based on his life
His tomb is empty
His teachings have changed billions of lives throughout history. All his disciples gave their lives for what they saw in Him
Why did Jesus have to be God/God’s Son
He needed to be perfect and his death needed to be with more than all humanity
The Bible has over 300 prophecies about the Messiah who was to come one of which included rising form the dead. Share an illustration that explains the odds of Jesus fulfilling just eight of those prophecies which he did plus all 300
The odds of just eight of these prophecies being fulfilled in any one person is mathematically impossible. It would be the equivalent of taking an area the size of Texas filling it with mint cookies two feet high licking the chocolate off of just one and tossing it back stirring up all the cookies and blindfolding someone to walk all of Texas having just one chance to find that cookie.
What four options does one have in understanding Jesus?
1) Liar
2) lunatic
3) legend
4) Lord
Pinky- Ring finger Big finger Pointer finger Thumb Fist Thumbs up Scarred hand
Pinky- Prophecies fulfilled
Ring- unity of message
Big finger- big question answered
Pointer finger- points out history accurately
Thumb- texted passed down miraculously
Fist- impact like any other book
Thumbs up-bible gives itself a thumbs up
Scarred hand Jesus gives bible thumbs up too
