Defending The Good Ruler of the World
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Introduction
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Defending A Loving Ruler
Defending A Loving Ruler
Having established this point....
How does one go about defending the reality of a creator?
Romans 1 has always held a major key for me.
Romans 1:18-20.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Verse 20 is the key. His invisible attributes....have been clearly perceived…in the things that have been made.
Order/Design/Beauty/Purpose Argument
Order/Design/Beauty/Purpose Argument
What do you see in creation?
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Design
Beauty
Purpose
Like it to art....or to an invention.
In any of them....there is order, design, beauty, purpose.
None of them happened by accident or spontaneously.
When you see a painting, an invention, you SEE THE ONE WHO DESIGNED, ordered, created it.
It shows signs of intelligence.
Complexity Argument
Complexity Argument
Creation is too intricate, too complex, too interdependent to have come to be by accident or a series of highly improbable and unlikely coincidences.
The complexity of just 1 human cell is such that if even 1 process is out of wack, it does not work at is ought. And we have literally billions of them.
Cosmological Argument
Cosmological Argument
Everything must have an adequate explanation.
This argument demands an adequate explanation for the creation of the world. It argues...
The universe could not have come from nothing
The universe could not have always existed as it is
The universe could not have come from impersonal matter or energy.
This is where many are coming to recognize the idea of an intelligent designer (Even if they will not admit it is God.)
The universe could not have come from nothing.
How could nothing
Conclusion
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