Scott Palmer - WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF GOD EXISTS?

August 11, 2019

 WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF GOD EXISTS?

BIG QUESTIONS

 Part 2

August 11, 2019

 Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

 

'"Absolute futility,' says the Teacher.'Everything is futile.'"

Ecclesiastes 12:8 (CSB)

 

Without God There is No

 

  1. 1.     TRANSCENDENT MEANING.

“Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.” James 4:14 (CSB)

 

“There is no remembrance of those who came before; and of those who will come after

there will also be no remembrance by those who follow them.” Ecclesiastes 1:11 (CSB)

 

  1. 2.    OBJECTIVE MORALITY.

“So God created man in His own image; He created Him in the image of God;

He created them male and female.” Genesis 1:27 (CSB)

 

The Moral Argument

 

  • Every moral law has a moral lawgiver.
  • There is a universal moral law.
  • There is a universal moral lawgiver.

 

“When outsiders who have never heard of God’s law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God’s law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God’s yes and no, right and wrong.” Romans 2:14-15 (Mess)

 

“The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (ESV)