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If God is the creator, designer, and lawgiver, He speaks to us in three forms. Identify these and share how you have observed this to be true.
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God is the ultimate artist who is the orchestrator of all that is created in life. He designed the world perfectly with all that is included in it. His law is unchanging at right in all it declare from what is written in scriptures.
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As creator, God speaks to us in nature. I remember walking along the beach at night as a teenager and I knew that the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. The whole is God. As designer, God speaks to us in the incredible intricacy of his creation. I was dumbfounded by the complexity of DNA. Had I ever had doubts about the existence of God, that observation alone would have made me a Christian. As a lawgiver, God speaks to us through the Bible. I still have difficulty with the writing style of the Bible and I have an academic doctor’s degree. So I have too often read about a book in the Bible rather than read the book itself. I realize that I have missed the beauty of the different kinds of literature and the differing styles of writing. Reading the primary source, not the secondary source, is now a goal. I have much to look forward to.
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As he connects in the lecture, God is demonstrated through nature. He speaks to us through his creation. He speaks to us through the human condition. His design is perfect to support life. And he speaks to us through the Bible. The lecturer makes the point that we shouldn’t limit our knowledge of God to only nature and the human condition, but to rather take advantage of His Word that he has authored and given us in the form of the Bible.
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The cosmological argument tells us that God is the first cause, i.e. He is the creator. The design argument tells us that God is the designer. The moral argument tells us that God is the lawgiver. It says that, if there is no God, then there is no objective moral standard or duty. But since we do find that there are objective moral values and duties in life, then there must be a God. Mathematically, the argument starts from: “If not Q, then not P”. Logically, this is the same as “If P, then Q”. As long as we can show P to be true, then we have proven Q to be true.
#apologetics
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His word, the Holy Spirit as we pray and seek Him, others.
