1. God’s Not Dead: There Was A Beginning Genesis 1:1, 20 – 23 1 Peter 3:15

2. Charles Darwin, On The Origin Of Species (1859) “All Of Life Arose Spontaneously Through Natural Cause…There Is No Need To Look Beyond Nature Itself Or Natural Selection Or Survival Of The Fittest For The Answer To How Everything Began…”

3. Astronomer Fred Hoyle (1929) “He Saw That The Light Measured From Distant Stars Appeared To Be Redder As The Distance Of The Stars From The Earth Increased. Light Appears Redder When A Star Is Moving Away From The Earth. This is Called The Red-Shift Effect, And It Demonstrated That All Distant Galaxies Are Moving Away From Earth At Velocities Proportional To The Distance From Earth.

4. Hoyle (1929) Cont. “This Discovery Led To The Big Bang Theory, The Idea That If You Put The Observed Expanding Universe In Reverse, Everything Would Come Back To A Single Starting Point (Single Infinitesimally Small Volume).”

5. Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design (2010) Hawking Emphatically States That The Universe Could Literally Pop Into Existence Without God. “Because There Is A Law Like Gravity; The Universe Can And Will Create Itself From Nothing…Spontaneous Creation Is The Reason There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.”

6. The Law Of Cause And Effect “For Every Action, There Is An Equal And Opposite Reaction.” Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727).

7. 1. God Reveals Himself Through Creation Genesis 1:1, 20 – 23 One Form Of The Cosmological Argument Is Stated This Way: 1.Whatever Begins To Exist Has A Cause. 2.The Universe Began To Exist. 3.Therefore, The Universe Has A Cause. Job 38:1 – 7, 31 – 32; 40:1 – 5

8. 2. God Reveals Himself Through Revelation 1 Corinthians 2:9 – 11 John 6:68 – 69 2 Peter 1:3

9. 3. God Reveals Himself Through Incarnation John 1:1 – 3, 14 John 1:12 – 13 John 14:1 – 3

10. There Is A Beginning To Become A New Testament Christian Hear Him (Romans 10:17) Believe Him (Mark 16:16) Repent Of Sins Against Him (Acts 2:38) Confess Him (Acts 8:37) Be Baptized Into Him (Acts 22:16) Live For Him (Galatians 2:20) To Be Restored To The New Testament Church Come Back To Him (Matthew 11:28-30) Repent (Acts 8:22) Pray (James 5:16)