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Did the universe and all of creation materialize out of nothing on its own? Or is there an immaterial being who is all-powerful and who has always existed responsible for all of creation? Is Jesus God? This is ultimately the question we have to answer.
Follow your heart. It knows God is real. I spent most of my life not following my heart because my mind was lost in deception and it took me decades to unravel the truth.
Atheism has no credible evidence to support it.
Darwinian evolution is a theory not supported by fact. It cannot explain how the first cellular life started. Facts such as the lack of transitional fossils prove Darwin’s theory of evolution has no factual basis. It is bias masquerading as science.
The definition of science excludes nonmaterial items. So by definition it will never recognize God who is a spiritual being. Our Supreme Court has bought into this definition of science and we have lost our ability to provide a creationist view in our schools.
The Big Bang is evidence that the universe had a beginning. Everything we know of that has a beginning has a cause. That cause is God, the creator of the material universe.
The universe was designed. Astrophysicist Hugh Ross has calculated the chance that our solar system, planet and the universe’s initial conditions were not designed as 10138. For the universe to be designed there must be a Creator.
The universe was designed to be discovered by man.
Francis Crick codiscover of the structure of DNA proposed that the four chemicals along the DNA spine called bases, function just like alphabetic characters in a written language. The precise arrangement of the characters in the genetic code is critical and “…is not determined by physical forces.”
David Foster calculated “…the probability of the development of DNA for one of the most primitive single cells from random processes…” as 1078,000. “In a universe only 10 to the 18th power seconds old, it is obvious that life could not have evolved by random chance.” So life happening by chance is impossible.
Dr. Stephen Meyer is a leading proponent of intelligent design as the cause for DNA’s design. DNA contains digital information. Meyer used Darwin’s model and looked at the possibilities of chance, necessity, chance and necessity and intelligent design as the cause of this information. Meyer came to the conclusion that intelligent design is the correct conclusion because “the only cause now operating that is known to produce information is intelligence.” “And that wherever we find information and we trace it back to its source, and this is the key premise, we always come to intelligence, to a mind and not a material process.” An intelligent source implies a Creator/God.
Consciousness is not purely physical.
God is relevant. Whether we believe in God or not, will impact the way we live life. Our founders thought God was relevant. In The Declaration of Independence they acknowledged that our rights come from our Creator and not men or governments.
The only religion that has an objective way of assessing its validity is Christianity. The objective method is the detailed facts provided in the Bible and Bible prophecy, which lays out the future in advance. None of the other religions have the kind of evidence we can use to validate Christianity.
Modern archaeology as a science is less than a few hundred years old. We are left with a partial record of the ancient world that is being interpreted by fallible men. There is a wealth of data that supports the Bible but the record is incomplete. Liberal bias exists and they will attempt to discount the Bible as a source. Interpretation of the data drives how we understand it.
There is no other archaeological document from the ancient world that is as validated as the Bible.
There is solid evidence supporting the Biblical account of the Exodus, Mount Sinai and the destruction of Jericho.
Evidence is mounting that God provided the first alphabet to Moses at Mount Sinai.
The supernatural worldview of the Bible must be taken literally. Satan, Adam and Eve are real figures. If you deny what happened in the garden of Eden you destroy the basis for why Jesus died and thus undermine His credibility as God.
Bible prophecy is supernatural evidence that foretells the future and validates that God is the author. Even the structure of the Bible is supernatural and validates its supernatural authorship.
The Dead Sea Scrolls validate the accuracy of the Old Testament.
The original copies of the New Testament have not survived, but we have been able to reconstruct it from the copies we have. The number of New Testament manuscripts is a positive because it allows us to verify their accuracy. More copies mean more checks. The vast majority of differences are strictly related to spelling and punctuation.
Be aware of liberal bias in what you read about Jesus. We are in a culture war. Our secular media does not accept the supernatural Jesus and they are more receptive to his depiction as another person in history.
The Shroud of Turin is the burial shroud of Jesus. The carbon dating is now known to be inaccurate. The supernatural nature of its creation proves the resurrection of Jesus. The Sudarium is the cloth that was wrapped around the head of Jesus as mentioned in John 20:6-7. It exists and it has been proven to be worn by the same man that was wrapped in the Shroud. They are witnesses to each other. Science is validating them both. Evidence points to the Shroud as the basis for the image of Jesus that we all recognize.
The pattern of all the evidence proves that God and Jesus are real!
Footnotes for the above are fully noted in my book.