February 2010

Apologetics Study
Salem First Friends Church

Questions about God...and Creation

Law of Causality Summed Up

(pg 16)
Creation
2 Arguments
1. The universe has a beginning.
1) Creation Argument: The Law of Causality
Since there is a ___________________________, then it must have been caused by something else.
2. Anything that has a begin-
ning must have been caused
Example: First Picture...please. by something else.

—Where did that come from?

3. Therefore, the universe was
This argument is based that every ______________________thing is caused by something else.
caused by something else, and
—-Think of yourself… but not too much this cause was

You are a limited thing…..so, you were _________________ by something else. ______________________

Genesis 1:1
Objection: The universe is eternal, known as the __________________________________ which
pretty much says that the universe creates hydrogen from_____________________________.

Scientific consensus says that the universe happened in a _____________________________ way. The universe needs a cause for its
continuing existences.
“ A sound explanation may exist for the explosive birth of the universe: but if it does, cannot find
out what the explanation is. The scientist’s pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation.” (pg 18-19)

Robert Jastrow founder-director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

1) Finite, changing things exist

2) Every finite thing changing

thing must be
2) Creation Argument: Cause for Current Existence _______________ by some-
thing else.
Since we exist, then there must be something keeping us from ______________________________________.
3) There cannot be an infinite
regress of these
Example: Second Picture Please causes.(Meaning you can’t
keep explaining this
So, anything ever _______________________...how in tar nation does that thing stay ____________________? ____________ thing caused
this other finite things and so
This argument says that something has not only caused the world to come into being but, but it on.
is also ____________________ renewing, conserving, and growing what has been created since 4) Therefore, there must be a
the beginning. (pg18) first,
_______________________
cause of every finite thing,
Objection: Finite things created _____________________ things. changing thing that
_______________________.
You could line up finite things _______________________________ but you would eventually need
to have something that _________________________ the first finite thing.
Colossians 1: 16-17
(back to the painting)
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Geisler, Norman, and Ron Brooks. When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidencse Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2001