8 Ways God Reveals Himself to Atheists
(AND Non-Atheists)
The Creation of the Universe• “!e heavens declare the glory of God” – Psalm 19:1and• “Complexity, order, design, beauty”• “THE HUMAN CELL IS DIGITAL COMPUTER” – DAWKINS
• “so men are without excuse” – Romans 1:21b
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Life on Planet Earth 2Evolution does not attempt to explain how life got on earth. It just theorizes how it evolved since it got here.
“In the beginning God created . . . living creatures” – Genesis 1:1, 20, 24
Human Uniqueness• Spirituality• Morality• Creativity
3“So God created man in His image... likeness... male and female.” – Genesis 1:27
Universal acknowledgement of spirituality• Faith and science are “irreconcilable”
– Hitchens• “everything is reducible to matter” – Stenger• “religions are the cause of many of the
world’s major problems” – New Atheists
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Scripture’s prophecies ful!lled
• Being struck by lightning in a year = 1 in 700,000• Becoming a U.S. President = 1 in 10,000,000• A meteorite landing on your house =
1 in 180,000,000,000,000• Jesus ful"lling 8 prophecies =
1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
5Jesus – birthplace, betrayal, trial, death, resurrection (60 major Old Testament prophecies)
Jesus’ life, death and resurrection
• Authority to forgive sins• To have always existed• Intention to return to judge
at the end of time• To be God
6His Claims:
Awareness of life after death
7“He set eternity in the hearts of men” – Ecclesiastes 3:11“WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN IMMORTALITY
BECAUSE WE PROVED IT, BUT WE FOREVER
TRY TO PROVE IT BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IT.”
– JAMES MARTINEAU
Reasons for becoming an atheist
1. You can live for self without accountability to God
“THE REAL OBJECTION OF ATHEISTS IS NOT
INTELLECTUAL, BUT MO!L.”
– DR. DINESH D’SOUZA
Reasons for becoming an atheist
2. You can delude yourself“THE GOD YOU CREATE IN YOUR BOOK IS A
DELUSION. CHRISTIANS DON’T BELIEVE IN
THE GOD YOU CREATE EITHER.”
– JOHN LENNOX
Reasons for becoming an atheist
3. It is a way to process hurt and injustice in life that
you feel God let happen
You and other Christ transformed human beings
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“One thing I do know, once I was blind but now I see.” – John 9:25
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