Truths

3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy 4:3-4

9 I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. 10 For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. Philippians 1:9-10 (NLT)

 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Deuteronomy 6:4

Atheism- There is no God

Atheism- There is no God Why it’s untrue: Scripture assumes God’s existence

Agnosticism- We can’t know if God exists

Agnosticism- We can’t know if God exists Why it’s untrue: God has revealed himself to us

God has revealed himself through:

God has revealed himself through: 1. His Word

20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21

God has revealed himself through: His Word His creation

1The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. 3 They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. 4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. Psalm 19:1-4a

God has revealed himself through: His Word His creation Our hearts

They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them. Romans 2:15

Polytheism- There are many gods

Polytheism- There are many gods Why it’s untrue: Jesus is the only way to heaven

 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12

Deism- God exists but we can’t know him

Deism- God exists but we can’t know him Why it’s untrue: God created us for relationship

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3

Pantheism- Everything is God

Pantheism- Everything is God Why it’s untrue: God is not an impersonal being

22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Romans 1:22-23

Humanism- Man is God

Humanism- Man is God Why it’s untrue: Man is inherently evil

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? Jeremiah 17:9 (NLT)

God said to Moses, I am who I am God said to Moses, I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I am has sent me to you. Exodus 3:14

God is One Being

 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Deuteronomy 6:4

God is Three Persons

“Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God” (John Wesley)

 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Deuteronomy 6:4

God is Creator

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

God is Redeemer

They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer. Psalm 78:35

”It was the duty of a man’s redeemer, usually his next of kin, to buy back the freedom that he had lost (e.g., through debt)” (Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary)

God is Omnipotent

God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. Hebrews 6:18

God is Omniscient

Great is our Lord and mighty in power his understanding has no limit Great is our Lord and mighty in power his understanding has no limit. Psalm 147:5

You have searched me, Lord, and you know me You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. Psalms 139:1-4

God is omni- present

God is omni- virtuous

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