What happens when we die all depends on whether there really is a God, right? If there is not, your body dies, and it's done. Your heart stops beating, your lungs stop breathing, your brain stops processing, and it's over...if you are no more than any of the other animals populating this earth. BUT, what if you're different because you are human, created in the image of God. What if you're actually a kind of hybrid - there is a physical part of you and a spiritual part of you. When your heart stops, your lungs stop, and your brain stops, the physical part of you is finished, but what about the spiritual part? If there really is a God, that part of you isn't finished yet.

Why are we moved by beauty? Why are we obsessed with it? We search it out, let it captivate us, drive us to try to create it, and want to share it. Why is that? Did you know...that that is part of what it means to have been created in the image of God? We are not like the other animals. God made us in His image. And that makes us different. Our obsession with beauty, we think, can only be explained by that. It's a "fingerprint of God."

If you are an atheist and you believe that love is anything more than some chemical reaction in the machine that is your body, you are living a massive contradiction. If you actually think that you are free to love, or not, well, logically, that flows right out of the truth that God is real, and you were created different from the rest of the animals - because YOU were created in the IMAGE OF GOD, which means that you can choose a God-kind of love. We'll show you...

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"What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?" Listen as Jordan answers these questions and others as he continues our God: Cancelled series.

We believe that compassion is powerful evidence for the existence of God. That it is powerful evidence for the existence of the eternal, transcendent, omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly Holy, perfectly just, yet stunningly loving God we serve - the God revealed to us through Jesus. We'll show you...

Bottom line, without God, how can we justify calling things "evil," "wrong," or "immoral" if there is no God? In truth, these things are simple preferences or opinions without God. Tim Keller put it like this, " The existence of evil is not evidence of God's absence in our universe. No, it's evidence of God's absence in our lives."

Resources:

"Reflections on the Existence of God" by Richard Simmons

https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Existence-God-Richard-Simmons/dp/1939358221/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2FHGISNKNAD8G&keywords=existance+of+god&qid=1643638982&sprefix=existance+of+%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-3

Craig, W.L., "The Moral Argument," drcraigvideos, June 8, 2016,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxiAikEk2vU

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Continuing in our God: Cancelled series Doc answers the question, "Why does God allow evil?"

We're not trying to get "sciency" this morning, But, we are going to try to challenge you to use common sense. Some things just require a designer, a craftsman, an architect, or a cook. They just can't make themselves. Well, for anything as intricate and complex as you - as our universe, as our planet - there had to be a designer, a craftsman, an architect, a cook. The idea that all this happened, without the tinkering of God, just doesn't make sense. We'll show you...

Scientists have stepped out in faith since science was created. Hypotheses lead to theories which lead to laws. The scientific method often leads to a point where the educated "guess" how the gaps are filled in. Atheists and theists alike have to adjust based on evidence. Most scholars today have come to the conclusion that the universe had a beginning. The argument made today focuses on that evidence. Cosmologically, anything that begins to exist had a beginning. This universe began to exist at some point. Therefore, the universe had a cause. We believe that God is the cause.

Imagine there is an actual, real God who is engaging with his creation. It's easy to dismiss him, because when you do you have the freedom to just live any way that pleases you. But IF there is a God, we would be foolish to ignore him. IF there were no God, it would be foolish to pretend like he does exist. So if we are fools one way or the other, why doesn't God PROVE himself to us. The point is, he has! He sent Jesus to us. He sent his only son to interact with us, so that we could see what God is supposed to look, sound and act like. Now, what do we do with that? Do we submit to him? Or do we keep foolishly acting as if he never existed?