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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - How Can I Know There Is A God? (Part 1) | February 6, 2025
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- Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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- Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with dr.
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- Robert jeffress.
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- Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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- Again to "pathway to victory."
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- In the opening verses of the bible, we read, "in the
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- Beginning god created the heavens and the earth."
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- But outside of the bible, is there any tangible evidence to
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- Prove that god exists?
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- It's an honest question that many people may not vocalize but
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- They harbor in their own hearts.
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- So today i'm going to address several of the greatest doubts
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- People wrestle with regarding the existence of god.
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- We're answering the question, "how can i know there is a god?"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ there is a day coming ♪
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- ♪ when the old will pass away ♪
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- ♪ and every wrong will be made right, ♪
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- ♪ no darkness, no night. ♪
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- ♪ the sun will light the way. ♪
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- ♪ there is a king coming, ♪
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- ♪ the one who conquered death and grave, ♪
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- ♪ no more pain and no more sorrow. ♪
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- ♪ this hope for tomorrow is our hope for today. ♪
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- ♪ he who was, he who is, he who was, ♪
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- ♪ he who is, he who is to ♪
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- ♪ come is christ the son of man. ♪
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- ♪ he's riding on the clouds ♪
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- ♪ with a crown upon his head. ♪
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- ♪ every eye will see him ♪
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- ♪ with the nail scars in his hands. ♪
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- ♪ sing hallelujah. ♪
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- ♪ he who is to come ♪
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- ♪ is christ the son of man. ♪
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- ♪ he's riding on the clouds ♪
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- ♪ with a crown upon his head. ♪
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- ♪ every eye will see him ♪
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- ♪ with the nail scars in his hands. ♪
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- ♪ sing hallelujah. ♪
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- ♪ yes hallelujah. ♪
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- ♪ he's coming back again. ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah. ♪
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- ♪ yeah hallelujah. ♪
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- Announcer: it's okay to have questions about your faith, but
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- You need answers you can trust.
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- In his book, "how can i know," dr. robert jeffress addresses
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- Seven of life's most important questions.
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- If you've ever wondered how you can know the bible is true or
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- How you can know if you're going to heaven, this book makes a
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- Compelling case for answers you can embrace with confidence.
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- Request your copy of "how can i know?"
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- To victory."
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- Jeffress: i was saved by god when i was five years old.
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- I was called to the ministry by god when i was 15.
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- I serve god by pastoring a church.
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- I write books and preach sermons to teach other people about god.
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- I can't go through a few hours a day without talking to god.
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- But occasionally, i have doubts that god exists, and i imagine
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- If you were truthful, most of you would say the same thing
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- As well.
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- You know, polls show that an overwhelming number of americans
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- Believe in god.
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- George gallup claims nine out of ten americans believe that god
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- Exists, but i'm not sure people are really as confident in their
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- Belief about god as they claim to be.
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- Daniel dennett is one of the so-called new atheists, and he's
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- Written a book called "darwin's dangerous idea."
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- I disagree with everything in that book.
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- It's an attack against theism, about belief in god.
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- But i do agree with one thing dennett says: "there's a
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- Difference between belief in god and belief in your beliefs.
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- A lot of people confuse their beliefs in their beliefs with
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- The belief in god," they believe in a god that they've created in
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- Their own mind.
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- Dennett says something very profound.
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- He said, "if as many people really believed in god as they
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- Say they do, then certainly they would conduct
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- Their lives differently."
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- Whether we're willing to admit it or not, most
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- Of us have doubts about god.
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- In fact, i've become convinced that the only people who never
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- Doubt are those who never think.
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- Today we're beginning with that most basic question: how do i
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- Know there is a god?
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- I want to speak for a moment about five reasons people doubt
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- The existence of god.
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- There are five major sources of doubt about god.
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- First of all, there's natural doubts.
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- By that i mean it's very natural to doubt what you can't see.
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- Every parent knows that.
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- It's hard not to doubt what you can't see.
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- You know, we spend, as parents, a lot of time teaching our
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- Children about the tooth fairy.
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- And we can teach them about the tooth fairy.
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- We can describe the kindness, the beauty, the generosity of
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- The tooth fairy.
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- We can even leave evidences of a tooth fairy's existence under
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- Our child's pillow when they lose a tooth.
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- But sooner or later, our child comes to understand there's no
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- Such thing as the tooth fairy, and it's only a short journey
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- From there to doubts about the big man up there.
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- I'm talking about santa claus.
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- Secondly, there are philosophical doubts that lead
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- Some people to question the existence of god, and the most
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- Cited philosophical argument against god is the reality of
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- Suffering and evil in the world.
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- The 18th century philosopher david hume, attempted to
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- Discredit christianity by his famous trilemma about suffering
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- And evil.
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- Hume said, "is god willing to prevent evil but not able?
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- Then god is impotent.
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- Is god able but not willing?
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- Then he's malevolent," evil.
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- "is god both willing and able to prevent evil?
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- Then where's evil?"
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- In other words, what hume was saying was,
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- When you look at evil in the world, is god willing to stop
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- It, but he just can't pull it off, he's not able?
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- Then he's an impotent god.
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- On the other hand, if god is able to stop suffering, if he
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- Could have stopped the holocaust, if he could have
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- Stopped the disaster you're facing in your life, but chose
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- Not to do so, then he must be evil.
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- If he's both willing and able to stop suffering, then where
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- Is evil?
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- In other words, there must not be a god.
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- Actually, there is a 4th explanation that hume
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- Doesn't offer.
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- It's one that we're going to explore in the message, how can
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- I know god is good with all of the suffering in the world?
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- But many times, it's a philosophical argument that
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- Keeps people from god.
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- Thirdly, there are experiential doubts.
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- You know, we're all prisoners of our experience?
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- If you grew up in a home that didn't believe in god, you're
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- Inclined, perhaps, not to believe in god.
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- Sometimes god intervenes miraculously in that situation.
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- I remember in the first church i pastored, i invited william
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- Murray to come share his testimony.
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- William murray was the son of famed atheist, madalyn
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- Murray o'hair.
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- And he talked about in his testimony how he observed the
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- Misery, the unhappiness, the discontent of his mother
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- About life.
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- She was so unhappy that he decided to reject her belief
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- System, which was an unbelief system in god, and that's how he
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- Became a christian.
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- But the one thing that causes most people to deny the
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- Existence of god is being disappointed by god.
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- That's the experience that causes people to question god.
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- The loss of a child, the betrayal of a mate, the abuse of
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- A parent, unanswered prayer all cause people to be profoundly
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- Disappointed in god and come to the conclusion there must not be
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- A god.
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- You know, evolution is man's attempt to create an alternate
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- Explanation for the origin of life, the origin of
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- The universe.
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- And by the way, it is a faith-based explanation for
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- The world.
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- You never thought that evolution was faith-based.
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- It is.
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- Both evolution and creationism have something to say about god.
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- The evolutionist comes through to question, to answer the
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- Question, where did everything come from, with an assumption
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- That there is no god, that there is no god, at least, who
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- Exercises any control over the origin of life.
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- By definition, evolution says, "life came into existence by
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- Chance, not by design."
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- It is by chance that the right molecules got together and
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- Formed the first cell after billions of years, and that
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- First cell became a multi-cell creature and on and on.
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- But it has something to say about god: god is not involved
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- In creation.
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- The creationist comes to the table with an idea that in the
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- Beginning god created the heavens and the earth, but both
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- Are faith-based.
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- The atheist either rejects god or at least attempts to
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- Refashion god.
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- Many so-called people of faith do that.
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- I think about harold kushner, who, years ago, the rabbi wrote
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- The book, "when bad things happen to good people."
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- He wrote the book after experiencing the death of his
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- Young son to a terrible disease.
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- Rabbi kushner claimed that, quote, "even god has a hard time
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- Keeping chaos in check."
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- And then he came to the conclusion
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- That, quote, "god is a god of justice, but not of power."
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- Another rabbi who read that said, "if that's who god is, he
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- Needs to resign today and let somebody more confident
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- Take over."
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- But that's what an unbeliever does.
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- They try to refashion god.
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- One wag said it this way: "in the beginning, god created man
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- In his own image, and ever since that time, man has tried to
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- Return the favor."
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- This idea that you can't reconcile a
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- Belief in god with a belief in science is based on
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- Circular reasoning.
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- Let me explain what i mean by that.
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- Everybody who's been to a basic science class in school knows
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- About the scientific method.
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- We're taught that the only way you can have a reasonable
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- Explanation for a hypothesis, the only way you can prove a
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- Hypothesis, a statement of why something happened, it has to be
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- Based in observation of that which is visible over a long
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- Period of time.
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- If you're gonna be scientific, you have to be rooted
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- In naturalism.
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- What is naturalism?
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- Naturalism says nature is all that there is.
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- Alvin plantinga is a philosopher, and he nails it
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- Perfectly when he talks about the absurdity of such a
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- Circular argument.
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- He said, "it's like the drunk who insisted on looking for his
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- Lost car keys only under the streetlight on the grounds that
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- The light was better there.
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- In fact, it goes to the drunk one better.
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- It would insist that because the keys would be hard to find in
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- The dark, they must be under the light."
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- To limit our search for
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- The origin of the universe by only that which is under the
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- Light, that which can be seen, is to limit an honest
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- Exploration for the truth.
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- Now, that leads us to a question: can we prove the
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- Existence of god?
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- And the answer is no.
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- You can't prove the existence of a supernatural, invisible being.
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- But there's a difference between proof and evidence.
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- We're going to look at four powerful arguments for the
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- Existence of god.
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- Today, we're gonna look at just the first one, and it's the
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- Cosmological evidence.
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- I could summarize this argument this way: why is there something
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- Instead of nothing?
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- Why is there something instead of nothing?
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- Look around you right now.
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- Look up from your notes.
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- Look around.
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- Why is there a pulpit?
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- Why is there a pastor?
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- Why is there somebody sitting next to me?
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- If we could look above, why is there a sun, and moon,
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- And stars?
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- Why is there something rather than nothing at all?
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- Second question you ought to ask yourself is why do i see
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- Anything at all?
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- Why is there something rather than nothing?
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- Why do i see anything at all?
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- And if you really want to blow your mind, ask yourself the
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- Question, why am i asking this question?
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- How do you explain everything that we see or feel?
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- Now, here's the atheist explanation for why we see
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- Something instead of nothing.
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- The atheist says the answer is no one times nothing
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- Equals everything.
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- No one times nothing equals everything.
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- Out of nothing because of no one comes everything we have.
- 00:15:17.339 --> 00:15:21.710
- Now think of what a silly argument that is.
- 00:15:21.710 --> 00:15:25.014
- Look at the cosmos, the cosmos, the universe.
- 00:15:25.014 --> 00:15:29.385
- Think for just a moment about the immensity of the cosmos.
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- This is gonna blow your mind.
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- We live in the milky way galaxy.
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- Everybody knows that.
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- We're in the milky way galaxy.
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- There are over 100 billion stars in the milky way galaxy.
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- The average distance, and i looked this up last night to be
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- Sure, the average distance from one star to the next star in our
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- Galaxy is 30 trillion miles.
- 00:15:55.310 --> 00:16:00.215
- Now to give you an idea how far 30 trillion miles is, just
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- Imagine getting one of the decommissioned space shuttles.
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- They're gonna loan it to you for a little while to take a journey
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- By space.
- 00:16:12.728 --> 00:16:14.329
- The space shuttle travels at 17,000 miles an hour, 5 miles
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- A second.
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- If you were to get in that space shuttle, and take off, and go to
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- The next star 30 trillion miles away, it would take you 201,000
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- Years to get there, traveling at 17,000 miles an hour.
- 00:16:32.181 --> 00:16:37.486
- To put it another way, let's say that you were to take off in the
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- Space shuttle on the day christ was born in bethlehem.
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- From then until now, you've been traveling at 17,000 miles
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- An hour.
- 00:16:51.166 --> 00:16:52.568
- You would have only completed 1% of your trip toward that star
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- By today.
- 00:16:57.439 --> 00:16:58.807
- You would still have 99% more of the trip to go.
- 00:16:58.807 --> 00:17:02.244
- That would be to get you to the next star.
- 00:17:02.244 --> 00:17:05.481
- How do you explain that?
- 00:17:05.481 --> 00:17:08.717
- Well, you know what the atheist says?
- 00:17:07.382 --> 00:17:10.152
- The atheist says, "there is no explanation.
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- There doesn't need to be an explanation, because the
- 00:17:13.255 --> 00:17:15.958
- Universe is eternal, and whatever is eternal doesn't need
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- A beginning."
- 00:17:21.430 --> 00:17:22.798
- And that's true.
- 00:17:22.798 --> 00:17:24.133
- If it's eternal, it doesn't need a beginning.
- 00:17:24.133 --> 00:17:26.602
- But guess what scientists have discovered?
- 00:17:26.602 --> 00:17:29.371
- We have a beginning to our universe.
- 00:17:29.371 --> 00:17:33.075
- The second law of thermodynamics says that the universe is
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- Running out of energy.
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- It's winding down.
- 00:17:40.015 --> 00:17:41.683
- Now think about this.
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- If the universe is eternal, it has an eternal past.
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- And if it has an eternal past, then it would have already run
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- Out of energy by now, and more and more scientists are coming
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- To see that.
- 00:17:53.695 --> 00:17:55.030
- In the 1930s, there was a belgian priest who became an
- 00:17:55.030 --> 00:17:58.567
- Astronomer named georges lemaitre, and he theorized that
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- The entire universe had been packed in a dense collection of
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- Matter that existed at temperatures of trillion of
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- Degrees, and then about 13.7 billion years ago, there was
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- An explosion.
- 00:18:16.151 --> 00:18:17.653
- He called it the cosmic egg that exploded the moment of creation.
- 00:18:17.653 --> 00:18:23.158
- Sir frederick coyle later changed that to the big bang.
- 00:18:23.158 --> 00:18:27.262
- It was the same theory, that there was a massive matter that
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- Suddenly exploded and became the universe.
- 00:18:30.666 --> 00:18:34.570
- Respected astronomers, like edwin hubble, for whom the
- 00:18:34.570 --> 00:18:37.873
- Hubble telescope was named, confirmed that there had been a
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- Myriad of galaxies beyond our galaxy, the universe is
- 00:18:42.110 --> 00:18:46.081
- Expanding, therefore, it had a beginning as well.
- 00:18:46.081 --> 00:18:50.085
- Interestingly, on april the 23rd of 1992, a team of scientists
- 00:18:50.085 --> 00:18:55.424
- Released the findings from the cosmic background explorer
- 00:18:55.424 --> 00:18:59.394
- Satellite, cobe, that confirmed what hubble and lemaitre said,
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- That there had to be a beginning of the universe.
- 00:19:03.665 --> 00:19:07.769
- Can i add something here?
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- Science is not the enemy of christianity as long as it's
- 00:19:10.505 --> 00:19:14.710
- True science.
- 00:19:14.710 --> 00:19:16.411
- True science will always lead you to the truth.
- 00:19:16.411 --> 00:19:19.982
- Scientists have discovered there had to be a beginning of
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- Our universe.
- 00:19:23.986 --> 00:19:25.887
- Interestingly, even atheists are willing to concede that.
- 00:19:25.887 --> 00:19:30.959
- David hume, the scottish philosopher that i told you
- 00:19:30.959 --> 00:19:34.162
- About, an atheist, said, quote, "but allow me to tell you that i
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- Never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything
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- Might arise without a cause."
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- Ladies and gentlemen, it is a
- 00:19:48.110 --> 00:19:49.878
- Simple but profound truth, out of nothing comes nothing.
- 00:19:49.878 --> 00:19:56.618
- Richard dawkins, who wrote "the god delusion," concedes very
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- Much there could be a first cause.
- 00:20:00.656 --> 00:20:03.825
- In an interview with "time magazine," dawkins said, quote,
- 00:20:03.825 --> 00:20:07.729
- "there could be something incredibly grand and
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- Incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding."
- 00:20:11.300 --> 00:20:15.871
- When the reporter asked him if that something could be
- 00:20:15.871 --> 00:20:20.842
- God, dawkins replied, "yes.
- 00:20:20.842 --> 00:20:25.047
- But it also could be any of a billion gods.
- 00:20:25.047 --> 00:20:29.084
- It could be the god of the martians, or the inhabitants of
- 00:20:29.084 --> 00:20:32.621
- Alpha centauri.
- 00:20:32.621 --> 00:20:34.456
- The chance of it being a particular god, yahweh, the god
- 00:20:34.456 --> 00:20:38.694
- Of jesus, is banishingly small."
- 00:20:38.694 --> 00:20:43.231
- I love author mark mittelberg's rejoinder
- 00:20:43.231 --> 00:20:46.735
- To dawkins's statement.
- 00:20:46.735 --> 00:20:48.070
- He said, "you can call him what you want.
- 00:20:48.070 --> 00:20:50.972
- But the evidence from the origin of the universe tells us a lot
- 00:20:50.972 --> 00:20:54.409
- About what he is like; and the description sounds amazingly
- 00:20:54.409 --> 00:20:59.147
- Similar to what the bible tells us about one particular god who
- 00:20:59.147 --> 00:21:03.885
- Actually is called yahweh, the god of jesus, the
- 00:21:03.885 --> 00:21:07.456
- Creator of the world."
- 00:21:07.456 --> 00:21:10.292
- The often asked question, "and if there's a god,
- 00:21:10.292 --> 00:21:12.260
- Why hasn't he revealed himself?" fails to take into account all
- 00:21:12.260 --> 00:21:16.665
- The ways he has revealed himself, starting with the
- 00:21:16.665 --> 00:21:19.701
- Cosmos with nature.
- 00:21:19.701 --> 00:21:21.703
- The psalmist declared in psalm 19:1, "the heavens declare the
- 00:21:21.703 --> 00:21:26.074
- Glory of god; and the skies proclaimed the work
- 00:21:26.074 --> 00:21:29.678
- Of his hand."
- 00:21:29.678 --> 00:21:31.546
- When famed astronaut, john glenn, was given permission
- 00:21:31.546 --> 00:21:35.484
- At age 77 to fly on the space shuttle, on that flight, he
- 00:21:35.484 --> 00:21:41.623
- Looked out the window and remarked, "to look out at this
- 00:21:41.623 --> 00:21:45.560
- Kind of creation and not believe in god is, to me, impossible."
- 00:21:45.560 --> 00:21:53.702
- Now, let's concede one thing atheist richard dawkins said.
- 00:21:53.702 --> 00:21:58.206
- It's a giant leap from a first cause of creation to the god of
- 00:21:58.206 --> 00:22:04.446
- Abraham, isaac, and jacob.
- 00:22:04.446 --> 00:22:06.815
- It's hard to get that out of the cosmological argument.
- 00:22:06.815 --> 00:22:10.986
- But fortunately, that's not the only evidence god has left.
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- There are three other sets of god's fingerprints we're going
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- To look at next time that help us answer the question,
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- "how can i know there is a god?"
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- Jeffress: the psalmist said, "the heavens declare the
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- The skies proclaim the work of his hands."
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- Question: "how can i know there is a god?"
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