aPologetics
Week 2- Chapter 2: Why should anyone believe anything at all? & Chapter 3: In the Beginning there was a Great S.U.R.G.E.
Welcome to Week 2 of VETI: Apologetics. This week we will be studying the following- Philosophy & Logic, Kant and Hume Philosophy, and the Battle for Truth. We will also be surveying the Cosmological Argument (S.U.R.G.E.).
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (video)
Reading Assignment:
Chapter 2: Why should anyone believe anything at all? and Chapter 3: In the Beginning there was a Great S.U.R.G.E.
pgs 51-94
Download this book for free. I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist- Norman Geisler and Frank Turek
1 Page Reflection Paper
Someone once said, "What does feeling wrong feel like? - It feels like being right, until you are proven wrong." People often get their beliefs from their parents, friends, childhood, religion, or culture. Sometimes they simply formulate their beliefs on the basis of feelings alone. Where, how, and from whom did you get your beliefs? How have your beliefs changed since you have been a follower of Christ and a student of his word?
Quiz #2:
The Law of Causality
Be prepared to explain the Law of Causality as explained in the text, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, by the next class session.
Stephen Hawking- BIG BANG
Stephen Hawking, a formost authority on cosmology, found that the universe began at a single point is space. It is important to understand that this "BIG BANG" includes the entire universe. Moreover, becuase the universe is finite and not infinite,, it includes all time, space and matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-yWMuBNr4
1 Page Reflection
How does this video account of the Big Bang relate to the account of creation in Genesis 1:1-6 and Psalm 102:25-27?
Genesis 1:-16
1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
Psalms 102:25-27
25In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26They will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
and they will be discarded.
27But you remain the same,
and your years will never end.