is there a god? can i know him? alpha course. 1.cause: why is there anything?
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Is there a God? Can I know Him?
Alpha Course
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1. Cause: Why is there anything?
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Nothing madeSomething out of Nothing
ORSomething made
Something out of Nothing
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2. Creation: Why is there life?
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3. Conscience: Why is there morality and meaning?
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“There is at bottom no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference. We are machines for propagating DNA.”
Richard Dawkins
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“I find in myself a desire which nothing in this world seems to satisfy. The most likely explanation is that I was made for something beyond this world.”
C.S. Lewis
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4. Christ: Who was Jesus?
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v.1 ‘You believe in God; believe also in me.’
v.7 ‘From now on, you do know him and have seen him.’
John 14 NIV
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“So what you are left with is either Christ was who he said he was – the Messiah – or a complete nutcase. The idea that the entire course of civilization has been turned upside down by a nutcase, now for me that’s too far fetched.”
Bono (U2)
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5. Christianity: Why does it exist?
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“As a historian, I cannot explain the rise of early Christianity unless Jesus rose again, leaving an empty tomb behind him!”
NT Wright
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“…it is 97% certain that Jesus Christ did rise from the dead!”
Richard Swinburne (Prof Emeritus in Philosophy at Oxford)
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“How often have I said to you, Watson, that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
Sherlock Holmes
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TABLE TIME:
What was the most interesting thing about this evening's talk?
Discuss this statement: Nothing made Something out of Nothing or Something made Something out of Nothing
What was your knowledge of Jesus before this evening?