![]() ![]() Wrathful: God has righteous anger toward sin and evil (Psalm 2:12 Jer 4:4 Rom 12:17-21 Rev 16:1-7). Jealous: God guards, protects, and desires allegiance from his beloved (Ex 34:11-14 2 Cor 11:2-6 James 4:4-10). All that he says is accurate (1 Sam 15:29 John 14:6 Titus 1:2 Heb 6:18). Truthful: God cannot lie, and cannot be mistaken. Righteous: All God’s actions are morally right and virtuous (Ps 19:7-9 Jer 9:24). Holy: God is moral perfection and is free from all sin, evil, or impurity (Lev 19:2 1 Peter 1:16). Omnipotent: God is all-powerful (Job 42:2 Matt 19:26 Rev 19:6). Omnisapient: God is perfect in wisdom (Ps 104:24 147:5 cf. Immutable: God is unchanging in his being (Ps 102:25-27 Mal 3:6 James 1:17 Heb 13:8). Sovereign: God is in control over all aspects of his creation (Gen 50:15-21 Rom 8:28). ![]() Eternal/Transcendent: God created time and exists outside of time (Gen 21:33 Ps 90:2). Unity: God is one (Deut 6:4 James 2:19 1 Tim 2:5). Self-existent: God is not contingent on anything (Ex 3:13-14 John 8:56-59). Infinite: God has no limit (1 Kings 8:27 Ps. If, for some reason, torturing babies was helpful to the survival of a society and everyone ‘liked’ doing it, then under a materialistic evolutionary worldview, how can it be considered wrong or immoral? What is evil or wrong if there is no absolute law or Lawgiver? When we look at the world and have a sense that things are “not the way they are supposed to be,” that suggests a perfect God and a way that things “should be.”ĪTTRIBUTES OF GOD - A collection of qualities that help describe God’s nature. For instance, someone who argues for materialistic evolution or argues that morality is relative cannot say that torturing babies is wrong. They can only say that certain actions are helpful to survival, or that man has evolved to ‘like’ these actions or to ‘dislike’ other actions. (Although the opposite argument could be made, that sacrificial actions run against the selfishness of ‘survival of the fittest’ evolution.) The materialistic evolutionist cannot make the case, however, that certain actions are moral or that others like murder are immoral. An evolutionist could attempt to explain how these actions could arise by arguing that they aid in individual or group survival. The moral argument is not primarily about how moral actions arose like treating someone with kindness or not committing murder. ![]() The beauty and simplicity of natural laws and equations (e = mc2) suggests design. The fine-tuning of the universe, especially the fine-tuning of earth for life, suggests design. The complexity of body parts, like the eye, suggests design. The complexity and information in the building blocks of life like DNA suggests design. It is not just the plane but also the pilot that needed to come into existence. If you put me in the cockpit of a 747, I would not know how to fly it. It is also important to keep in mind that it is not only the physical anatomy of the bird that needed to come about, it is the instinct of the bird that knows how to use the body. We would never believe that a Boeing 747 happened by accident without an intelligent designer, nor should we believe that a bald eagle came about without an intelligent designer. Not only that, but all of its parts seem to be necessary for there to be any function, which would make piecemeal evolution virtually impossible. How much more should we recognize intelligence in incredibly more complex mechanisms that exist in nature? One example, the bacterium flagellum is an amazingly complex and efficient motorized ‘machine’ that resembles less efficient motors designed by humans (search flagellum on ). A cairn is simply three rocks: large, medium, and small stacked on each other, and yet hikers who see it immediately know that it is a signal from an intelligent being. A cairn is a signal that hikers leave for each other so that they know the right way to go. DESIGN ARGUMENT - The design in the universe calls for a Designer (Ps 94:9). ![]()
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