Text: “In the beginning, God…” (Gen 1:1)
Intro: Worldviews
The 9/11 attackers
Theism & Atheism; religious or secular
I. The Teaching of Romans 1
What? Romans 1:20
How? Romans 1:19, 20
Source? Romans 1:20
Application 1: Why is this important?
Reason 1:
Reason 2:
Reason 3:
First Principle: Eternal
Second Principle: Meaning
“…no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined for extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.” --Russell
Third Principle: Responsible
Stop beating Basil’s car
Application 2: Descent into Darkness
Romans 1:21
A reckoning: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin