Starting from Scratch • Where did we come from? – Option 1: Intellectual design. Genesis 1: 1, 27 – Option 2: We have no idea… maybe random chance.
Starting from Scratch • Does life have a meaning? – Option 1: Yes, the meaning is given by the same one who intelligently designed us. Isaiah 43: 7 – Option 2: We have no idea.
Starting from Scratch • Who or what decides what is meaningful, significant, moral? – Option 1: The one who created us and gave us meaning decides what is meaningful. Ecclesiastes 12: 13 – Option 2: We don’t know for sure, therefore, the importance of things is subjective.
Starting from Scratch • Is there even such thing as right and wrong? – Option 1: Yes, the Creator decides. Daniel 9: 14 – Option 2: Well, we think we know some things that are right and wrong (the obvious ones).
Starting from Scratch • Are you accountable for your actions? – Option 1: Yes, you are accountable to the Creator at any time he makes you accountable. Matthew 25: 46 – Option 2: We don’t know. (This is really a reason some like the idea of no God)
Closing • • • God is where we came from. God gives us meaning. God decides what is meaningful. God decides right and wrong. God makes us accountable in his time.