Truth and God

The Truth about Truth, God and the Resurrection

Introduction:

Reasons for Belief: The need to know why you believe what you believe is true.

Truth.

God.

Resurrection.

Arguments in general - this term causes a lot of issues.

Why Christians don’t want to “argue” or learn apologetics.

I. The truth about Truth

A. Post “truth” generation

What is truth?

Before you answer that

cultural perceptions/definitions

Devaluing truth

5. Aristotle and Aquinas

B. The Law of Non-Contradicion

1. self stultifying statements

2. Self refuting statements

B. How truth works

Absolute

Trans cultural

Trans language.

C. The Law of Non-Contradicion

1. self stultifying statements

2. Self refuting statements

3. A statement either corresponds to reality or it doesn’t

a. “truth about reality is knowable.

4. Immanuel Kant - a father of skepticism

a. you can’t know reality as it is

b. you can only know something as it appears to you

D. Implications of Kant’s Skepticism

That’s true for you but not for me

You can’t know the truth

There’s no such thing as truth

Truth is relative

II. Which God?

A. Choices about God

Theism

Deism

Pluralism

Atheism

B. Proofs for the Theistic God (God of the Bible - OT, NT)

God exists or doesnt’

if he doesn’t the talk is over

if he does then consider the following

Theistic Proofs

C. Fine Tuning

Anthropic Principle - Just Right - Goldilocks

Irreducible Complexity

Specified Complexity

Conclusion

Conclusion

1. Truth exists

2. Truth about reality is knowable

3. Theistic God exists

4. Theistic God is best represented by the God of the Bible