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20 Compelling Evidence that God Exists by Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman pp1-34 website Can you prove that God Exist? by Peter Kreeft Argument of Design by Peter Kreeft ( Found in the raoulroncaltheology121/documents) The First Cause Argument by Peter Kreeft ( Found in the raoulroncaltheology121/documents) Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Test Slide 5 Slide 6 Understanding our Faith: Theology What is doing Catholic Theology all about? Faith in Human Relations and Faith in God What is Faith? Challenges to our Faith: Facing Our Context Paradoxes of Faith ( An Introduction): Faith is a response to a God who reveals himself in Love Slide 7 Understanding our Faith: Theology What is doing Catholic Theology all about? Faith in Human Relations and Faith in God What is Faith? Challenges to our Faith: Facing Our Context Paradoxes of Faith ( An Introduction): Faith is a response to a God who reveals himself in Love Slide 8 Understanding our Faith: Theology What is doing Catholic Theology all about? Faith in Human Relations and Faith in God What is Faith? Challenges to our Faith: Facing Our Context Paradoxes of Faith ( An Introduction): Faith is a response to a God who reveals himself in Love Slide 9 Slide 10 What is Faith? Faith refers to the object of our faith and the act of believing (i.e. as objective and subjective). Faith is about what is beyond the horizon (McCabe) Class Dialogue: Faith and Reason Faith and Reason: Reasons to believe Personal choice Objective Truth Scientific Method and Understanding Love Slide 11 What is Faith? Faith refers to the object of our faith and the act of believing (i.e. as objective and subjective). Faith is about what is beyond the horizon (McCabe) Class Dialogue: Faith and Reason Faith and Reason: Reasons to believe Personal choice Objective Truth Scientific Method and Understanding Love Slide 12 What is Faith? Faith and Reason: Reasons to believe Personal choice Objective Truth Scientific Method and Understanding Love Slide 13 Reasons to believe: Christianity is True Truth? Some can be proven (note: not in the strict sense): The existence of God. Some can not be proven;reasons can be given based on authority: The Trinity Slide 14 Reasons to believe: Christianity is True Authority Why? Trust Expertise Experience Evidence they have seen Slide 15 Reasons to believe: Christianity is True Authority Why? Trust Expertise Experience Evidence they have seen Slide 16 Chris: I did. But it claims to tell something thats true for everybody. What is personal is your response to it. Sal: What do you mean, true for everybody? What religious things are true for everybody? Chris: Things like God and Heaven whether theyre true or not doesnt depend on you, or on your personal choice, any more that the existence of the sun does. Sal: But if I believe its true, then its true for me, and if I dont then it isnt true for me. Slide 17 Definition: It claims to be true for everybody and whether it is true or not doesnt not depend on our personal choice. Slide 18 Slide 19 Scientific Method and Understanding Love Slide 20 Is the experience of love an objective truth? Why? (Definition: It claims to be true for everybody and whether it is true or not doesnt not depend on our personal choice.) Slide 21 Slide 22 What do we meet out there (belief system)? A Summary of Our Context (Discussion) Possible Response Ostrich Approach Faith Seeking Understanding Mark 1:39-45 The Throne Diagram Slide 23 Slide 24 Challenges to Our Faith: Facing Our Context Challenges to Our Faith: Facing Our Context Slide 25 Bucket List Nip/Tuck Glee What do we meet out there (belief system)? Videos (Discussion Slide 26 Bucket List Slide 27 Slide 28 Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman): It is indescribably beautiful. Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson): We are flying over the polar capabove the desolation Carter Chambers: The stars it is really one of Gods good ones Edward Cole: So you think a being of some sort did all these Carter Chambers: You dont? Edward Cole: You mean if I look up in the sky and promise this or that the Biggy will make all these go awayNo! Carter Chambers: Then 95% of the people on earth are wrong? Edward Cole: One thing life has taught me is that 95% of the people on earth are always wrong Carter Chambers: It is called faith Edward Cole: I honestly envy people who have faith I just can not get my head around it Carter Chambers: Maybe your head is in the way Slide 29 Nip/Tuck Slide 30 Slide 31 Do you want to know the difference between what you can and cannot change Everything disappears love, trees, rocks, steel, plastic, human beings, none of us get out alive. You can huddle in a group and face it one day at a time or you can be grateful that when your body rubs against another that it explodes with enough pleasure that even for a minute you forget that you are a walking pile of ashes. Now that is the truthif you are strong it make you free..if you are weak it will make you..you.. Slide 32 VideoGlee: KurtBelieving in God? Slide 33 Slide 34 Mercedes: After all my strength is gone. In you I can be strong. I look to You. And when melodies are gone. In you I hear a song. I look to you. ( Song) Kurt: Thank you Mercedes, your voice is stunning. But I do not believe in God. You have all stated your beliefs I am just stating mine. I think God is like Santa Claus for adults. Otherwise God is kinda jerk, isnt He. He makes me gay and he has his followers telling me this is something I chose as if someone will choose to be mocked every single day of their life and right now I do not want a heavenly father. I want my real one back.. Slide 35 Describe the belief system of each characters based on what was said in the excerpts? Does their belief affect the way they live? How does their belief affect the way they live? Discussion Slide 36 A Summary of Our Context Slide 37 Split Level Christianity Materialist Society Pluralistic Society Slide 38 The postmodern ethos is centerlessness. No clear, shared focus unites the diverse and divergent elements of postmodern society into a single whole. There are no longer any common standards to which people can appeal in their effort to measure, judge or value ideas, opinions, lifestyle choices. Stanley Grenz A Summary of Our Context Slide 39 Ostrich Approach Faith Seeking Understanding Possible Responses Slide 40 Ostrich Response Ostrich Response Slide 41 Faith Seeking Understanding Slide 42 Those who have sought God and found Him Those who have sought Him and not yet found Him Those who neither seek Him nor find Him Pascal Faith Seeking Understanding Slide 43 Mar 1:39-45 And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. (40) And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean." (41) Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, "I will; be clean." (42) And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. ( Faith Seeking Understanding Slide 44 43) And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, (44) and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them." (45) But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter. Slide 45 Modern Day Leper Story Slide 46 Checking our Hearts Slide 47 Slide 48 Slide 49 Slide 50 The end