Apologetics

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Purpose of apologetics #1

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Defend the faith against the attack of others

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Apologetics

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Offer a defense for the gospel, defending our worldview

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Purpose of apologetics #2

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Follow Gods command

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P. Of apologetics #3

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Deal with our own doubts and questions

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Firm foundation for our faith

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Understand God better

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Answer questions of believers and non believers

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Cosmological Argument

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Cause and effect

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Teleological

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Based on design

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Anthropic principle

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Observation has been clearly designed with humans in mind

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Aquinas

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Helped make argument famous

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Paley

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Watchmaker analogy

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Consciousness

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Self awareness

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Morality

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Right and wrong

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The five E’s

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Execution
Empty tomb
Eye witness
Early accounts
Events following

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Meaning of Life

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Humans understand that life has purpose, if God doesn’t exist, then their can be no higher meaning

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Lord

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Jesus is the son of God and Savior

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Lunatic

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Jesus believed he was son of God, but really he was out of his mind

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Liar

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Jesus knowingly deceived people to believe he was the son of God

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Legend

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Jesus never existed or made claims to divinity

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Execution

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Jesus was crucified by professional executioners with many witnesses

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Empty tomb

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Even enemies acknowledged empty tomb

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Eye witnesses

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Jesus appeared to over 500 witnesses before his ascension

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Early accounts

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Gospel records of resurrection were written too early to be legend

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Events following

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The resurrection of Jesus sparked the beginnings of the church and the transformation of the disciples

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Inspiration

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God breathed

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How many prophecies?

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1,817 prophecies in scripture, 191 that were filled by Jesus

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Coherency

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Many authors from many cultures the Bible is consistent in its message

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Timetable of Bible

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1400 BC-100AD

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Inerrancy

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God can't error The Bible is the word of God The Bible cant error

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Free will

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The ability to choose- given by God so as to create a genuine relationship

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Moral evil

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That which results from the actions of humans

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Natural evil

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That which results from natural process and can't be directed to human action

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Several reasons for suffering

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Maintain free will, we suffer to help us, steer us another way, make good from bad, get our attention, draw us closer to him, teaches us thankfulness, purifies us

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Miracle

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Intervention by God that cannot be fully accounted for by human reason/science.

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Micro evolution

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Gradual changes within a species

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Macro-evolution

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Changes from one species to another

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Intolerance

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Narrow minded, all religions make exclusive claims

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Hell

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Eternal separation from God

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Doubts

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Force us to ask questions, search for answers, and become better in the process

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Faith

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Doesn't equal good feelings, doesn't equal lack of doubt

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Trilemma

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Lord, lunatic, liar