Lesson Loop 1.6.10

Third Place:
This past Tuesday we spent quite a while discussing the movie "Expelled" which we watched last week. Many of the students had obviously thought about the movie and had quite a few things to say about it. I believe the topics of Evolution and Atheism are ones which many of our students find themselves confronted with on a regular basis.
I highlighted 4 problems that we see when we examine the Atheist/Darwinian Worldview:
1. Logic - Granted, there is quite a bit of faith that goes into both Creationism and Evolution, but many of the arguments made by the atheist scientists in our movie don't even hold up logically
2. Pride & Anger - Many Atheists (like Richard Dawkins) are extremely angry and hateful towards the God of the Bible. We saw from Romans 1 it is because they rejected God and He has given them over to their own flesh.
3. Ignorance - Some of the comments that were made against Christianity (that it is nothing more than a weekend hobby for people like knitting) are made by people who are simply ignorant. They have obviously never experienced the life transforming power of the gospel - it makes everything new, and it consumes our life. It is not a mere hobby - at least not authentic faith.
4. Hopelessness - One of the saddest parts of the movie was hearing Dr. Provine talk about the natural process that one goes through when they begin to embrace Darwinian idealogy -
A. Reject the idea that there is a God
B. Reject the idea that there is an afterlife.
C. Reject the idea that there is morality.
D. Reject the idea that mankind has a free will.
E. Realize that there is absolutely no meaning to the human existence - we are born, we live, and we die. And that's it.

Yet after recognizing that this is the process he went through, Dr. Provine still remains content to live in that state of hopelessness. Really, really sad.
We however considered how we have infinite hope offered through Jesus Christ!


Lucid;
We started a new series on Salvation. We talked about how the entire Bible is one big story of salvation, from the 1st page to the last.
It begins with the beautiful story Of Creation, where God declares everything He has made good, and then enjoys relationship with Adam and Eve... Until the devastation of the fall. Then everything changed. Not only did Adam and Eve's lives change forever, their disobedience caused sin to spread to every human who would ever live - including us.
And so Adam's story is our story. From birth we go our own way, and our sin causes us to miss the mark - we are bent towards sin.
But there is hope, because Christ (the 2nd Adam) came and made things right. His sacrificial death on the cross made forgiveness available to all who receive Christ.
And so the devastation of sin can be undone. We can be healed. Praise God for His glorious salvation!!