1. Getting closer to God

2. PS 90
Lord, you have been our dwelling place     throughout all generations. 2 Before the mountains were born     or you brought forth the whole world,     from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3. Two Theories

4. Two Theories
Big Bang

5. Two Theories
Big Bang
Creator God

6. Big Bang
Our elements were created in the stars (supernovae)

7. Big Bang Our elements were created in the stars (supernovae)
Heaviest element essential for human life?

8. Big Bang Our elements were created in the stars (supernovae)
Heaviest element essential for human life: Iodine (53)

9. Big Bang
Sun – converts Hydrogen (1) to Helium (2) by Fusion

10. Big Bang Sun – converts Hydrogen (1) to Helium (2) by Fusion
Creating Iodine requires a much more powerful process

11. Big Bang
Age of universe 13.7 billion years (+/- 50 million years)

12. Big Bang - consequences
Life is an accident

13. Big Bang - consequences
Life is an accident
We are insignificant

14. Big Bang - consequences
Life is an accident
We are insignificant
There are no moral absolutes

15. Big Bang - consequences
Life is an accident
We are insignificant
There are no moral absolutes
There is no morality

16. Big Bang - consequences
Some things are predictable

17. Big Bang - consequences
Some things are predictable
Some Laws are ‘universal’

18. Big Bang - laws
F = d(mv)/dt

19. Big Bang - laws

20. Big Bang - laws
E = mc2

21. Big Bang - laws

22. The Missing Pieces

23. The Missing Pieces
l - Love

24. The Missing Pieces
l – Love
j - Justice

25. The Missing Pieces
l – Love
j – Justice
f - Faith

26. The Missing Pieces
l – Love
j – Justice
f – Faith
s - Suffering

27. The Missing Pieces l – Love j – Justice f – Faith s – Suffering
l - Life

28. The Missing Pieces l – Love j – Justice f – Faith s – Suffering
l – Life
d - Death

29. The Missing Pieces l – Love j – Justice f – Faith s – Suffering
l – Life
d – Death
r - Relationship

30. The Missing Pieces l – Love j – Justice f – Faith s – Suffering
l – Life
d – Death
r – Relationship
f - Forgiveness

31. The Missing Pieces l – Love j – Justice f – Faith s – Suffering
l – Life
d – Death
r – Relationship
f – Forgiveness
s - Sin

32. The Missing Pieces l – Love j – Justice f – Faith s – Suffering
l – Life
d – Death
r – Relationship
f – Forgiveness
s – Sin
w - Wisdom

33. The limit of Science
No matter how you combine scientific law you can never derive
l,j,f,s,l,d,r nor w

34. The limit of Science
Science is wonderful

35. The limit of Science
Science is wonderful
It has limitations

36. The limit of Science Science is wonderful If has limitations
Every one of those limitations is addressed by Biblical Christianity

37. The limit of Science Science is wonderful If has limitations
Every one of those limitations is addressed by Biblical Christianity
What the Bible has to say is often painful but is never simplistic

38. Biblical Christianity

39. Biblical Christianity
You can not separate God and the Bible

40. Biblical Christianity
You can not separate God and the Bible
It is about Relationship

41. Biblical Christianity
You can not separate God and the Bible
It is about Relationship
It is nothing to do with Religion

42. Biblical Christianity
You can not separate God and the Bible
It is about Relationship
It is nothing to do with Religion
God has done Everything necessary to bring you into relationship with Him

43. What does the Bible tell us?

44. Love
For God so loved the world …

45. Love For God so loved the world …
Love the Lord your God with all your heart …

46. Love For God so loved the world …
Love the Lord your God with all your heart …
Your loving-kindness is better than life

47. Justice
God is VERY concerned about Justice

48. Justice God is VERY concerned about Justice
Follow justice and justice alone that you may live and posess the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God

49. Faith
Without Faith it is impossible to please God

50. Faith
Without Faith it is impossible to please God

51. Faith Without Faith it is impossible to please God
The righteous live by faith

52. Suffering
Job

53. Suffering
Job – When He has refined me I will come forth as gold

54. Suffering
My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long “Where is your God?”

55. Life In the beginning God created …
The ransom for a life is costly no payment is ever enough
… that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him

56. Sin and Death
The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus

57. Relationship We have this message of reconciliation
In love He predestined us for adoption to sonship

58. Forgiveness
All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins ….

59. Wisdom The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom
  “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom,     and to shun evil is understanding.”

60. Summary

61. Summary
Conflict between Science and Biblical Christianity is greatly exaggerated

62. Summary
Conflict between Science and Biblical Christianity is greatly exaggerated
Both feed the mind

63. Summary
Conflict between Science and Biblical Christianity is greatly exaggerated
Both feed the mind
Both have a sense of time

64. Summary
Conflict between Science and Biblical Christianity is greatly exaggerated
Both feed the mind
Both have a sense of time
For a balanced view of life you need both

65. Summary
Conflict between Science and Biblical Christianity is greatly exaggerated
Both feed the mind
Both have a sense of time
For a balanced view of life you need both
Religion and science on their own are dark alleys

66. Summary
Conflict between Science and Biblical Christianity is greatly exaggerated
Both feed the mind
Both have a sense of time
For a balanced view of life you need both
Religion and science on their own are dark alleys
You can only understand the deep things of life through the lens of the Bible

67. Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations
Lord, you have been our dwelling place     throughout all generations. 2 Before the mountains were born     or you brought forth the whole world,     from everlasting to everlasting you are God.