This is the first in the series of topics on Christianity and the BIG questions. Its meant to help Christian teenagers come to grips with who God is and what is His plan for us.

1. Christianity and the BIG
Questions
Perspective is a powerful thing!

2. Christianity and the BIG
Questions
 What is Reality?
 What is Humanity?
 What is Right?
 What is Truth?
 Why does God allow Suffering?

3. What is Reality?

4. What is Humanity?

5. What is Right?

6. What is Truth?

7. Why does God allow
Suffering?

8. Christianity and the BIG
Questions
 What is Reality? (Is God real?)
 What is Humanity?
 What is Right?
 What is Truth?
 Why does God allow Suffering?

9. What Is Reality?
Heb 11:6

10. Memory Work and Drills!

11. Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not be dismayed, for I am your
God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous
right hand.

12. Psalms 20:7
Some trust in chariots and some in
horses,
But we trust in the name of the Lord
our God.

13. Psalms 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the
house, the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the
city, the guards stand watch in
vain.

14. Memory Work and Drills!
Isaiah 41:10
Psalms 20:7
Psalms 127:1

15. Focus
What’s the big idea?
 Reality must begin with faith in God
Why does it matter?
People around you deny God’s
existence everyday, what are you
going to do?
How do I live it?
Look at things through God’s eyes

16. Perspectives!

17. Perspectives!
• Married for 30 years
• Has an adult son called Phil
• Is a very famous singer
• In 2004 he confessed to his family
he was gay
• Moved out to live with his lover,
Mr. Franco Sperduti
I don’t believe God hates me
anymore …, I now know that
God accepts me for who I am. I
at peace.

18. Perspectives!
• God doesn’t hate me
• God accepts me
• God accepts me for
who I am … and my
lifestyle

19. Perspectives!
• God doesn’t hate me
• God hates sexually immoral
acts – 1 Cor 6:9
• Go and sin no more – John
8:10-11

20. Perspectives!
Your world view
is critical to
your life!
See things through God’s eyes!

21. Today’s Lesson
Who is God?
What is the universe?
What about History?

22. Who is God?
How would you answer
someone who asked
you to prove that God
exists?

23. Gen 1:1
In the beginning God
created the heavens
and the earth.

24. Heb 11:6
And without faith it is
impossible to please God,
because anyone who comes
to him must believe that he
exists and that he rewards
those who earnestly seek him.

25. God and Science
God
We need
science to
prove that
God exists

26. God and Science
God Science
reflects
God!

27. What is the Universe?
Big bang or God?

28. Science
Fact – an observation that can be
repeated and explained
Theory – a hypothesis that explains
observations

29. Neutrinos
• Cannot be observed
• Believed to be the fundamental
particle of the universe
• Its presence affects things around it
By faith scientists believe that it exists
and they are using the Large Hadron
Collider in CERN to prove it!

30. Faith is Required
• Scientists have faith in their theories
• Christians have faith in their God

32. What about History?
Many people say that
because of tragedies,
there is no God
Gal 4:4-6

33. The Major Events

34. God is real!
For since creation of the world, God’s invisible
qualities – His eternal power and divine nature –
have been clearly seen, being understood from
what has been made, so that people are
without excuse

35. If God is in Control,
how do you explain
_______________ ?
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