STUDY QUESTIONS FOR “the existence of god”

  1. What does 1 Peter 3:15 admonish Christians to do?

  2. What does 1 Thessalonians 5:21 admonish Christians to do?

  3. What, according to Psalm 14:1, is one thing that could make a person a fool?

  4. To what does the word “fool” refer in the English language?

  5. What do we learn from Psalm 19:1?

  6. What, according to this lesson, is the natural explanation of the origin of the week?

  7. What, according to Scripture (Ex. 20:11) is the real explanation of the origin of the week?

  8. What does Romans 1:20 have to say about the evidence of God in nature around us and our response to that evidence?

  9. What is the message of Isaiah 40:26 in relation to God’s existence?

10. What is the message of Hebrews 3:4 in relation to God’s existence?

11. What is the important message contained in the very first line of Paul’s speech to the people of Athens as recorded in Acts 17:24-31?

12.  What is the point of the following statements? “One does not get a poem without a poet. One does not get a law without a lawgiver. One cannot have a painting without a paint­er. One cannot have a musical score without a composer.”

13. When a person considers the incredible precision with which things in the solar system, galaxy, and Universe work, what would be the “normal” conclusion that could be drawn from such precision?

14. If a person had in his possession a precision watch, what conclusion could that person draw from the existence of the watch?

15. What does purposeful design indicate?

16. What prompted Charles Darwin to say, “That the eye, with all of its inimitable contrivances, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree”?

17. What conclusion can we draw today from such things as the eye, the skeletal system, the reproductive system, the nervous system, etc.?

18. What conclusion can be drawn from Paul’s statement in Acts 17:28 (“For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.”)?

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