Jesus = The Truth, The Way, and The Life

Why is the year 2026? What happened 2,206 years ago?

The estimated birth of Jesus Christ

BC/AD

BC = “Before Christ”

AD = “Anno Domini” (Latin for “The Year Of Our Lord”)

When was the Gregorian Calendar changed from BC/AD to BCE/CE?

Between the 1600s-1900s, specifically to remove the religious ties to the calendar. - “Encyclopedia Brittanica”

Who was the Gregorian Calendar named after?

Pope Gregory XIII in 1582

How many countries in the world use The Gregorian Calendar?

191/195 Countries. So 191 Countries acknowledge that Jesus Christ was a real person - “International Organization for Standardization (ISO)”

What percentage of Atheist Historians believe that Jesus was a real person?

Statistically, 99.5% of Atheist Historians believe Jesus was a real person. Virtually no Historian discredits his existence. - Bart D. Ehrman (leading Biblical Scholar at UNC Chapel Hill, studied at Princeton)

Is Murder Objectively wrong? According to who/what?

Yes, murder is objectively wrong. The only logical answer to why… is God. All other answers to this question fall flat on their face.

“If there is no God, everything around us just IS. There is no Good, there is no Evil. There is no right, there is no wrong. If there is no God, everything is completely Subjective.”

Who said this?

Richard Dawkins

Nihilism (Noun)

The Atheist worldview that believes life is without objective morality, purpose, or intrinsic value. - “Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy”

This is the only form of Atheism that is consistent

Does Order come from Chaos?

No, order comes from Intelligence and Intentionality.

Example: Your phone is made of complex code and materials, placed together in a very specific way by Intelligent people who know what they are doing.

The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)

Everything that begins to exist has a cause. Something doesn’t bring itself into existence out of nothing. Therefore, the Big Bang cannot cause itself. It must have something outside of itself that caused it. Therefore, God caused the Big Bang. This law is the foundation of all science. (A disease has a cause. An injury has a cause. Etc.)

First Law of Thermodynamics

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. Matter cannot make itself from nothing. Therefore, the energy present at the start of the universe couldn't have caused its own existence—the 'switch' had to be flipped from the outside

The Big Bang Theory

Fathered by Georges Lemáitre, a Catholic Priest. This theory used Mathematics to prove the universe had a beginning and that the universe is not eternal. He based this theory off of Genesis 1:1.

How do you get to go to Heaven?

There is nothing we can do to get to Heaven. We will never be good enough, for all have fallen short of the glory of God. But because of what Jesus alone did on the cross, we can be saved. Saved by grace through faith.