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Connecting With God

Connecting With God. Through His Truth. Can We Handle the Truth?. Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no fault in Him at all. (John 18:38). Truth Is: That Which Corresponds To Its Object

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Connecting With God

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  1. Connecting With God Through His Truth

  2. Can We Handle the Truth?

  3. Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no fault in Him at all. (John 18:38) Truth Is: That Which Corresponds To Its Object That Which Describes the Actual State of Affairs Absolute, Not Relative What is Truth?

  4. Other Truths About Truth • Truth is Discovered Not Invented • Truth is Trans-Cultural • Truth is Unchangeable • A Sincere Belief Not Change The Facts • Truth Not Affected By The Attitude of the One Professing It All Truths Are Absolute!

  5. Self-Defeating Statements • “There is no Truth” • “All Truth is Relative” • “There Are No Absolutes” • “What Is True For You Is Not For Me” • “All Roads Lead To Heaven” False Ideas About Truth Lead To False Ideas About Life!

  6. Can All Religions Be True? • The atheist says “there is no god”.

  7. American Atheist There is no heavenly father. Man must protect the orphans and foundlings, or they will not be protected. There is no god to answer prayer. Man must hear and help man.

  8. Can All Religions Be True? • The Bible claims Jehovah God is our Creator.

  9. The Bible Says: Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

  10. Can All Religions Be True? • The atheist says there is no god. • Muslims do not believe Jesus was resurrected.

  11. The Quran That they said (in boast), “We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Apostle of God”; -But they killed him not, Nor crucified him, But so it was made to appear unto them…Nay, God raised him up unto Himself; and God is exalted in power.

  12. Can All Religions Be True? • The Bible claims Jehovah God is our Creator. • The Bible claims Jesus Christ was resurrected.

  13. The Bible Says: Acts 13:28-30 And though they found no cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He should be put to death. Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb. But God raised Him from the dead.

  14. Can All Religions Be True? • The atheist says there is no god. • Muslims do not believe Jesus was resurrected. • Atheists believe that man is only mortal and has no eternal destiny.

  15. American Atheist • "In view of the stench of death that pervades the concept of religion, it is disturbing to read words in the articles of authors writing for the 'American Atheist' magazine. • Death is the friend of madness; it is not the friend of the Atheists. Asking people to happily die is incompatible with telling them to happily live. • If life is good, death is bad. Every individual knows that instinctively. • No: death is not acceptable. We have no choice but to admit it."

  16. Can All Religions Be True? • The Bible claims Jehovah God is Our Creator. • The Bible Claims Jesus Christ Was Resurrected. • The Bible teaches that man has an eternal destiny.

  17. The Bible Says: II Timothy 4:6-8 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

  18. Can All Religions Be True? • The atheist says there is no god. • Muslims do not believe Jesus was resurrected. • Atheists believe that man is only mortal and has no eternal destiny. • Many protestant denominations teach that salvation is by “faith only”.

  19. The Methodist Discipline Wherefore, that we are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort.

  20. Can All Religions Be True? • The Bible claims Jehovah God is Our Creator. • The Bible Claims Jesus Christ Was Resurrected. • The Bible teaches that man has an eternal destiny • The Bible teaches that one is saved by grace through an obedient faith.

  21. The Bible Says: James 2:24 “Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”

  22. Can All Religions Be True? • The atheist says there is no god. • Muslims do not believe Jesus was resurrected. • Atheists believe that man is only mortal and has no eternal destiny. • Many protestant denominations teach that salvation is by “faith only”. • Many denominations teach baptism is not necessary for salvation.

  23. The Hiscox Baptist Manual Baptism is not essential to salvation…but it is essential to obedience.

  24. Can All Religions Be True? • The Bible claims Jehovah God is Our Creator. • The Bible Claims Jesus Christ Was Resurrected. • The Bible teaches that man has an eternal destiny • The Bible teaches that one is saved by grace through an obedient faith. • The Bible teaches that water baptism is necessary for salvation.

  25. The Bible Says: Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

  26. Can All Religions Be True? • The atheist says there is no god. • Muslims do not Believe Jesus resurrected. • Atheists believe that man is only mortal and has no eternal destiny. • Many protestant denominations teach that salvation is by “faith only”. • Many denominations teach baptism is not necessary for salvation. • Many denominations teach that a child of God cannot fall from God’s grace.

  27. The Confession of Faith Those whom God justified, he will also glorify; consequently, the truly regenerated soul will not totally fall away from a state of grace, but will be preserved to everlasting life.

  28. Can All Religions Be True? • The Bible claims Jehovah God is Our Creator. • The Bible Claims Jesus Christ Was Resurrected. • The Bible teaches that man has an eternal destiny • The Bible teaches that one is saved by grace through an obedient faith. • The Bible teaches that water baptism is necessary for salvation. • The Bible teaches the child of God can so sin as to fall from grace.

  29. The Bible Says: Galatians 5:4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

  30. Can All Religions Be True? • The atheist says there is no god. • Muslims do not believe Jesus resurrected. • Atheists believe that man is only mortal and has no eternal destiny. • Many protestant denominations teach that salvation is by “faith only”. • Many denominations teach baptism is not necessary for salvation. • Many denominations teach that a child of God cannot fall from God’s grace. • Many encourage us to choose the church of our choice.

  31. The Hiscox Baptist Manual It is most likely that in the Apostolic age when there was but “one Lord, one faith, and one baptism”, and no differing denominations existed…baptism was the door into the church, but now its different…

  32. Can All Religions Be True? • The Bible claims Jehovah God is Our Creator. • The Bible Claims Jesus Christ Was Resurrected. • The Bible teaches that man has an eternal destiny • The Bible teaches that one is saved by grace through an obedient faith. • The Bible teaches that water baptism is necessary for salvation. • The Bible teaches the child of God can so sin as to fall from grace. • The Bible teaches there is one faith and one body.

  33. The Bible Says: Ephesians 4:4-6 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

  34. Truth vs. Tolerance • 1st: You Should Not Question Religious Beliefs • 2nd: The Prohibition To Question Religious Beliefs Is An Absolute Moral Position.

  35. The Bible Says: Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.”

  36. Truth vs. Tolerance • 1st: You Should Not Question Religions • 2nd: The Prohibition To Question Religious Beliefs Is An Absolute Moral Position. • 3rd: The Bible Commands Us To Question Religious Beliefs

  37. The Bible Says: I John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

  38. The Bible Says: Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

  39. The Bible Says: John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

  40. The Bible Says: John 12:48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him--the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

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