I. Evil Men Have Always Spoken Against The Lord

Infamous blasphemers

Is.37:23-24, Assyria Ps.2:2-3, break…bonds Rv.16:9-11 . . . 21

I. Evil Men Have Always Spoken Against The Lord

II. Some Still Speak Against The Lord

1. Some speak against His existence

Ps.19:1, declare Ro.1:19, manifest

“You can’t miss it!” V. 20, not just existence, but power

and majesty

Epicurus (d. 270 B.C.)

If God wishes to prevent evil and cannot, He isn’t all powerful; if He can but won’t, He isn’t all good

Cancer? Wreck? Baby?

Questions appeal to universal system of justice; evil violates it

God is love, 1 Jn.4:8 He created us w. free will (Gn.2:16-17;

Josh.24:15) If all actions produce same effect, we

cannot learn to choose good from bad

We suffer because of . . .

Personal wrong choices

Jg.6:11 Pt.4:15

Wrong choicesof others

Drunk driverZimbabwe

Naturallaws

Lk.13:4Gravity is good

2. Some speak against His creative power

Hb.3:4“No contractor in sight; did it create itself?”

“No Creator in sight; did it create itself?”

Issue: which has better evidence? No scientist saw creation or general

evolution; it is not science, but faith Jn.1:1-3; Mk.10:6

At the beginning…

Jesuswas

there

Adam was

there

Eve was

there

Best scientific evidence requires a young earth

Sun shrinks 5 feet an hour If rate has remained constant…

100,000 yrs. ago it would be twice its present size (no life possible)

20 million BC, earth would touch sun! 500-2000 million yrs. ago, earth would

be inside the sun

Science Is A Sacred Cow– Anthony Standen

Of the “missing link”: “It is a most mis-leading phrase, because it suggests that only one link is missing. It would be more accurate to say that the greater part of the entire chain is missing, so much that it is not entirely certain whether there is a chain at all” (p. 106)

3. Some speak against God’s Son

“He was a good man, but no more” Mk.15:29 Ac.26:11; 1 T.1:13

Jn.5:17-23

He claimedto be the

Son of God

If He lied,then He isnot good

4. Some speak against God’s sincerity

They make Him the author of every religious doctrine and body

Godcallson

One manto affirm

Another manto deny

God is not responsible for division in religion

Mt.16:18, how many churches? Ep.4:4-6 (1:22-23)

Jn.17:20-21

0 . . . 1 . . . 2

5. Some speak against God’s Word

Jer.36 1 Tim.1:20 Tit.2:5

“God is a figment of man’s imagination” (Ludwig Feuerbach)

“An honest God is the noblest work of man” (Robert Ingersoll)

“God is dead” (Thomas Altizer)

“God is in everything” (Hare Krishna)

Religion is an “opium of the people” (Karl Marx)

Worst of all: Ro.2:24