Today’s Message –> “The Case For A Creator”
Sunday, November 10, 2019
This series of talks are a journey through Christian Apologetics. Each message is designed to help you better understand your faith and provide you with some tools to defend it.
Psalm 139:14 NIV
“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
ORIGIN –> The point at which something comes into existence.
How BIG is this world we live in?
THEISM’S ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION –> GOD.
ATHEISM’S ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION –> The Universe has ALWAYS EXISTED, and because there was no beginning…there is no beginner –> therefore there is no God.
5 PIECES OF EVIDENCE THAT PROVE THE UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING:
THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS.
Thermodynamics (thermo- heat/dynamics – energy) is the study of matter and energy. AND THE SECOND LAW STATES THAT THE UNIVERSE IS RUNNING OUT OF USABLE ENERGY—> things like our OXYGEN AND our HEAT SOURCES in the universe IS GROWING SMALLER AND SMALLER. PROOF POINT —> IF THE UNIVERSE WERE ETERNAL, THERE WOULD BE AN ETERNAL SUPPLY OF HEAT AND ENERGY!
OUR UNIVERSE IS EXPANDING.
In 1927, Edwin Hubble discovered through his 100” lens at his Mount Wilson observatory that the entire universe is moving and expanding away from one single, central point. This is where the term Big Bang was coined and originated —> which states in the beginning there was nothing (no time, space or matter) and then all of sudden —> BANG! There was something! This moment of discovery is what converted the likes of Albert Einstein from an atheist to an agnostic because he knew if there was a beginning, there has to be a beginner! After he looked through Hubbles lens, he was quoted as saying…
“I now want to know how God created this world.” —Albert Einstein
RADIATION AFTERGLOW
Discovered by Penzias & Wilson in 1965 at their Lab in Home Dell, New Jersey. A strange radiation coming from all directions was found on their lab antenna. This earned both of them NOBEL PRIZES as they discovered the radiation afterglow from the BIG BANG EXPLOSION. This is the light/heat from the initial explosion, POINTING TO A BEGINNING!
GREAT GALAXY SEEDS
Discovered by the KOBE SPACE SATELLITE, 1992 —> Stephen Hawking called this discovery the MOST important discovery perhaps of all time. These seeds (seen only through intense magnification) are basically ripples (a trail of small seeds left behind from the BIG BANG) that show the speed and temperature of how the universe is expanding. Astrophysicists like Michael Turner (University of Chicago) and KOBE SPACE Project Leader George Smoot said, ‘If you’re religious, it’s like looking at the fingerprints of God, Himself.”
EINSTEIN’S GENERAL RELATIVITY
This law proves a beginning to all time and that LIGHT was integral to the creation of time, space and matter. —> GENESIS 1:3 NIV “And God said, “Let there be light…”
These 5 points of scientific proof and evidence have science literally quoting the first 3 words of your bible!
Genesis 1:1 NIV
‘In the beginning…’
WE KNOW THERE IS A CREATOR –> BECAUSE THERE IS A CREATION!!!
SIMPLE FACTS OF CONSTANT FORCES AT WORK IN OUR WORLD:
OXYGEN makes up 21% of the earth’s atmosphere…and that precise number IS WHAT MAKES LIFE POSSIBLE for us…for example if it were 25%, fires would erupt spontaneously everywhere…if it were 15%, we would suffocate.
The GRAVITY we experience is actually at a PERFECT amount for life to be sustainable on earth). If the gravitational force were altered by 0.0000000000000000000000000000001 percent…our SUN wouldn’t exist.
If LIGHT was expanding at ANY rate FASTER that 186,000 miles per second, scientists say life would NOT be possible on earth.
IF JUPITER were not in it’s current orbit…the earth would be BOMBARDED with space material. BC Jupiter acts a GRAVITATIONAL VACUUM CLEANER…attracting asteroids and comets that would otherwise strike EARTH.
IF THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH took longer than 24 hours…temperature differences would be too great between night and day…making life impossible on earth.
THE 23 degree TILT the earth’s axis…IS ACTUALLY JUST RIGHT…if it were altered AT ANY POINT…surface temperatures would be too extreme for any life to exist on earth.
In fact, there are 122 constants (like what is mentioned above) that make it possible for life to exist as we know it.
THIS IS ALL HERE –> YOU ARE HERE BY DESIGN!!!
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