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Why Any Serious Religious Quest Should Begin with Christianity

Why Any Serious Religious Quest Should Begin with Christianity. www.SeanMcDowell.org. Antony Flew. “…I think that the Christian religion is the one religion that most clearly deserves to be honored and respected…. Antony Flew.

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Why Any Serious Religious Quest Should Begin with Christianity

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  1. Why Any Serious Religious Quest Should Begin with Christianity www.SeanMcDowell.org

  2. Antony Flew “…I think that the Christian religion is the one religion that most clearly deserves to be honored and respected…

  3. Antony Flew …There is nothing like the combination of a charismatic figure like Jesus and a first-class intellectual like St. Paul…

  4. Antony Flew …If you’re wanting Omnipotence to set up a religion, this is the one to beat.”

  5. 1. Christianity is Testable

  6. 1 Cor. 15:14 “If Jesus is not risen, then our faith is worthless…”

  7. Jesus gave historical evidence that he was the Son of God, and these claims are testable.

  8. John 20:30-31 “Therefore, many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book…

  9. John 20:30-31 …but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.”

  10. 2. Salvation is Free

  11. Eph. 2:8-9 “For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves…

  12. Eph. 2:8-9 …but from God, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”

  13. Salvation is a free giftand is available to anyone

  14. Galatians 3:28 • “Neither Greek nor Jew, slave nor free, male nor female, we are all one in Christ Jesus.”

  15. “For we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.” James Faust The Atonement: Our Greatest Hope

  16. Religion is about man trying to get to God; Christianity is about God coming to us

  17. 3. You get an amazing worldview fit

  18. Worldview: A mental map of reality

  19. Can we live like our worldview is true?

  20. A human is a “no-soul” (anatta) Buddhism

  21. Darwinism is a “universal acid” Daniel Dennett

  22. “…If, as the evolutionary scientists say, what our brains tell us about morality, love, and beauty is not real… Timothy Keller The Reason for God

  23. …If it is merely a set of chemical reactions designed to pass on our genetic code… Timothy Keller The Reason for God

  24. …then so is what their brains tell them about the world. Then why should we trust them?” Timothy Keller The Reason for God

  25. “The horrid doubt always arises whether the conviction of man’s mind, which has developed from the mind of the lower animals… Charles Darwin Autobiography of Charles Darwin

  26. …are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would anyone trust the conviction of a monkey’s mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?” Charles Darwin Autobiography of Charles Darwin

  27. C.S. Lewis Author “If the value of reasoning is in doubt, you cannot try to establish it by reasoning.”

  28. Christians don’t have to compartmentalize their worldview

  29. Isaiah 1:14 “Come, let us reason together

  30. John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word [logos]”

  31. 4. Christianity has Jesus at the center

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