Intelligent Design (5 of 7)
Series: Contending For The Faith
Jeff Strite
Romans 1:16-23
OPEN: A young skeptic returned from his 1st semester at college and visited elderly Bible teacher who'd invited him over for a meal. He hadn't been at college long, but he'd been there long enough for the professors to destroy his faith. So as she fixed a meal, he felt he needed to inform her of that, and so he said ''I once believed in God, but since studying science, I'm convinced that God is but an empty word.''She paused a moment and then said, ''Well, I have not studied science, but since YOU have, maybe you can tell me from where this egg came from.'' She held up a raw egg she was about to use.
''Why from a hen, of course'' he replied.
''And where did the hen come from? she asked.
''Why, it hatched from an egg.''
''And perhaps,'' said the lady, ''you can tell me which existed first.''
''The hen, of course,'' he said.
''So, you mean that a hen existed without having come from an egg?''
''Oh, no,'' said the young man, ''I guess I should have said that the egg was first.''
''Then you mean that an egg existed without having come from a hen?''
The young man looked puzzled and then said ''You're getting me confused.''
She smiled and then replied: ''Young man, since you cannot explain the existence of even an egg without God, can you really expect me to believe that you can explain the existence of the whole world without Him.''
(Allen Webster, ''The Day The Atheist Sat Next To The Preacher'')
Paul wrote the Christians at Rome: ''(God's) invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So (unrighteous men) are without excuse.'' Romans 1:20
In other words: even unrighteous people should know there is a God because God is revealed in the things He has made. Psalm 19:1 says it this way ''The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky ab ...
Series: Contending For The Faith
Jeff Strite
Romans 1:16-23
OPEN: A young skeptic returned from his 1st semester at college and visited elderly Bible teacher who'd invited him over for a meal. He hadn't been at college long, but he'd been there long enough for the professors to destroy his faith. So as she fixed a meal, he felt he needed to inform her of that, and so he said ''I once believed in God, but since studying science, I'm convinced that God is but an empty word.''She paused a moment and then said, ''Well, I have not studied science, but since YOU have, maybe you can tell me from where this egg came from.'' She held up a raw egg she was about to use.
''Why from a hen, of course'' he replied.
''And where did the hen come from? she asked.
''Why, it hatched from an egg.''
''And perhaps,'' said the lady, ''you can tell me which existed first.''
''The hen, of course,'' he said.
''So, you mean that a hen existed without having come from an egg?''
''Oh, no,'' said the young man, ''I guess I should have said that the egg was first.''
''Then you mean that an egg existed without having come from a hen?''
The young man looked puzzled and then said ''You're getting me confused.''
She smiled and then replied: ''Young man, since you cannot explain the existence of even an egg without God, can you really expect me to believe that you can explain the existence of the whole world without Him.''
(Allen Webster, ''The Day The Atheist Sat Next To The Preacher'')
Paul wrote the Christians at Rome: ''(God's) invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So (unrighteous men) are without excuse.'' Romans 1:20
In other words: even unrighteous people should know there is a God because God is revealed in the things He has made. Psalm 19:1 says it this way ''The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky ab ...
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