1. The Creative Power : JESUS Colossians 1:15-17

2. WORLDVIEW THOUGHTS:  Kalam Argument: What ever begins to exist has a cause.  Worldview – is simply the way we think the world works and how we fit into it. (Biblical worldview = Bible)  Postmodernism – a belief system that rejects the notion of absolute truth. (relativism, subjectivism, and humanism)

4. Ah, SOVEREIGN Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. -Jeremiah 32:17

5. 1.Creation UNDER Jesus. He is the image of the invisible God, the FIRSTBORN OVER all creation. - Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the FIRSTBORN OVER all creation. - Colossians 1:15

6. All things were created BY him… -Colossians 1:16a All things were created BY him… -Colossians 1:16a 2.Creation BY Jesus.

7. a)The MATHEMATICAL improbability of LIFE spontaneously forming;

8. 10 TO THE 40,000 th POWER A TRILLION, TRILLION, TRILLION, TRILLION YEARS 10 TO THE 40,000 th POWER A TRILLION, TRILLION, TRILLION, TRILLION YEARS

9. b)The improbability of organisms with IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY forming from random mutations.

10. If it could be demonstrated that any COMPLEX ORGAN existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous,

11. Successive, slight modifications, my theory would ABSOLUTELY BREAK DOWN. But I can find out no such case. - Charles Darwin

16. Our study still leaves us baffled about one question that motivated him [Darwin] – how did this mechanism EVOLVE?

17. c)The improbability of the Evolutionary TIMELINE. (Genesis 1:24-28; 6:19-20; 8:15-19; Job 40:15-19).

18. If a million MONKEYS banged away on typewriters for a million years, eventually they would generate the entire works of SHAKESPEARE.

19. SLOWNESS has really nothing to do with the question. An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves.

20. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a SLOW miracle would be just as incredible as a SWIFT one.

23. Too many people have a microscopic idea of the Creator. If they would study his wonderful works as shown in nature herself and the natural

24. laws of the universe, they would have a much broader idea of the great Engineer. Indeed, I can almost prove [God’s] existence by chemistry.

25. One thing is certain, the universe is permeated by Intelligence. I tell you, no person can be brought into close contact with the

26. mysteries of nature, or make a study of chemistry, without being convinced that, behind all, there is a SUPREME INTELLIGENCE.

27. All things were created by him and FOR him. -Colossians 1:16b All things were created by him and FOR him. -Colossians 1:16b 3.Creation FOR Jesus.

28. Now if we are children, then we are HEIRS – heirs of God and COHEIRS with Christ… we may also share in his glory. -Romans 8:17 3.Creation FOR Jesus.

29. Blessed are the meek, for they will INHERIT the earth. - Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will INHERIT the earth. - Matthew 5:5

30. 4.Cohering IN Jesus. He is before all things, and IN him all things HOLD together. - Colossians 1:17 He is before all things, and IN him all things HOLD together. - Colossians 1:17

31. 4.Cohering IN Jesus. He is the principle of cohesion in the universe… which makes it a COSMOS instead of a CHAOS. - J.B. Lightfoot He is the principle of cohesion in the universe… which makes it a COSMOS instead of a CHAOS. - J.B. Lightfoot

33. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a ROAR; the ELEMENTS destroyed by fire… EVERYTHING will be destroyed in this way… -2 Peter 3:10-11 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a ROAR; the ELEMENTS destroyed by fire… EVERYTHING will be destroyed in this way… -2 Peter 3:10-11

34. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. -2 Peter 3:11-12 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. -2 Peter 3:11-12

35. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth,

36. the home of righteousness. So then… make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. - 2 Peter 3:12-14 the home of righteousness. So then… make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. - 2 Peter 3:12-14