All right, we're here in Psalm chapter 19, and the name of the sermon is a biblical review
of the God Delusion, a biblical review of the God Delusion.
Now, the God Delusion is a book by Richard Dawkins, and it's considered the biggest and
best book to prove that there is no God.
It's very promoted worldwide, even in countries like Saudi Arabia, there were millions of
illegal downloads of the book, which shows a lot of these Muslims don't even believe
in God.
They just kind of are forced to pretend they do because of whatever is going to happen
to them.
And Richard Dawkins, if you're not sure who this is, he's a very wicked person.
He's blasphemed God for decades.
He's an old man now at this point.
He absolutely hates God, and he mocks the idea of God, mocks the Bible and all these
things.
And so I read this book because I wanted to preach a sermon against it, and this is supposed
to be the biggest book to prove that there is no God.
I legitimately thought that they would have some arguments or like, okay, well, how do
we answer this or whatever?
And really, there's not much of that at all, so I'm just going to kind of give you a quick
review of this.
But before I get into that, of course, I want to start with the Bible, and let me just show
you some very clear arguments to prove that there is a God.
And yes, we can prove that there is a God.
And no, it's not like a math problem, but one argument we can have is just the beauty
of God's creation.
We can look at the creation and see that there is a God, obviously.
Psalm 19 verse 1, notice what the Bible says, the heavens declare the glory of God, and
the firmament showeth his handiwork.
And the person that is not denying reality, you can just look up at the sky, look at the
stars, look at the sun, look at the moon, look at the mountains, look at the oceans,
and you can see, you know what, obviously this was not randomly created.
Obviously this was created, shows the glory of God.
Day in the day, utter the speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.
Now in the Bible saying day in the day, utter the speech, it's referring to basically the
sun, and then night unto night showeth knowledge, it's basically referring to the moon.
And we can look up at the sun, and then we can, the sun and the clouds, and then you
can look at the moon and the stars, and they're actually teaching you something.
Verse 3, there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
Meaning there's not a place on earth where there is no sun.
I mean everybody has the sun, everybody can see the sun, nobody can say, well I don't
have access to this, I didn't know about this, I mean they do have the sun.
Verse 4, their lion is gone out through all the earth, and they're worse to the end of
the world, and them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
So basically the sun is literally going out throughout the entire earth, as in s-u-n-a-rau,
not anak.
And it's saying that it's worse, because it's actually teaching you something.
And what the sun shows you is the power of God, the glory of God, the eternal nature
of God, all these things are evident via just the simple creation that he made, the sun
and the moon, and of course everything else he's made is also teaching us things as well.
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoiceth as a strongman to run
a race, his going forth is from the end of heaven, of the heaven, and his circuit, meaning
it travels on a path, onto the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
There's not a single place in this world where the sun is not, it's heat is not being distributed.
Go to Romans chapter one, Romans one, Romans chapter one, and look obviously I'm not trying
to prove you God is real here today, you already know that God is real, and honestly the thing
is everybody's born with a belief in God, so it's really about someone who just decides
they don't want to believe in God, or someone who's rejected God, but to the average person,
you know you believe in God you say why, because right from birth you believe in God, right
from birth there's no doubt, I mean you don't have to convince your kids that God is real,
I mean it just makes perfect sense to them like yeah you know, I was talking to God about,
I was talking to Ezra last night about God, and talking about how God created him, and
asking if he loved God, explaining how God loved him, and he understood what I was saying,
I mean he's pretty young but he's smart enough to understand that from obviously we talk
about God regularly, but he understands what I'm saying, that yes there is someone or something
that created me, right, even at the age of less than three years old they can understand this.
So another here, Romans chapter one also talks about the creation of God, and notice what the
Bible says, verse 18, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness, because that which may be
known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it on to them. God has showed inside of
us, he's manifested to us, his existence. For the invisible things of him, the invisible things of
God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even his eternal power God had so that they are without excuse. See the Bible says that the
creation of the world has actually shown us that God is real, so when people say I want evidence
of God, well according to the Bible the creation is evidence of God, and according to the Bible
you can look outside and see that there's a God. It's like, I mean, even just looking at the
creation itself, even without the word of God, they clearly knew that they clearly, everyone
clearly knows that God is real. I mean, it's evident in his creation, meaning that before we
had a finished Bible, it's not like Adam and Eve are there and they're just like, you know, like
how are we here? You know, what created us? I mean, they knew that God was real from the very
beginning because the creation itself bears record that there is a God. Go to Romans chapter
8, Romans 8. So one thing is the beauty of God, the creation of God shows that there is a God.
Now we can talk about the conscience, and I've talked about that before, but we're going to look
at that passage later on in Scripture and put that under the category of morality. We can talk about
that. You know, another thing that I have not mentioned before, at least when I preached with
the Science Series, is personal experience actually shows us there is a God as well. And
this is very subjective, but according to Romans 8, not only do we know that there is a God, we also
know that we're saved. Okay, here's what it says in Romans 8, verse 14. For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again
to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit
itself beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. Now, this is very
subjective, and if you were to tell this to someone who's unsaved or doesn't believe in God,
they would mock at this. And what they would say is, well, Muslims feel the same way about their
religion, and Hindus feel the same way about their religion, and Catholics feel the same way. And
yeah, you know what? This is subjective, but you know what? The Spirit shows us that, yeah, you
know, we are the children of God. I mean, sometimes in your life, I'm sure you've experienced things
where you feel the touch of God upon your life, and you know the fact. Now, I mean, we know the
fact that we're saved. I don't have any doubts about my, you know, eternal destiny. And if I
don't have any doubts about my eternal destiny, that means there must be a God, because there
would be no eternal destiny if there is no God. And the Holy Spirit actually shows us this as
saved people, where you know you're a child of God. And of course, if you know you're a child of
God, that means there must be God, right? And it says, actually, go to, well, actually, verse 18.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us, for the earnest expectation of the creature waited for the
manifestation of the sons of God. And so we are waiting for the manifestation, but we know for
sure that we're children of God. And if somebody says, well, prove it. How do you know what you
believe is real? How do you know that you're saved? How do you know you're on your way to
heaven? Because isn't it true we go soul winning, and one thing people often tell us at the
beginning, well, nobody knows if they're on their way to heaven. Nobody can know that for sure.
Who's heard that many times out of soul winning? How do you know that you're saved? How do you
know you're not? Nobody knows because we're all sinners, right? That's what they say. But the
Bible says that you can know that you're a child of God. Go to second Peter chapter one, second
Peter chapter one. So outside of the beauty of God, God's creation, outside of personal experience
and the conscience and these things, also the scripture itself bears record that not only is
there a God, but that you know that the one who wrote this book is the true God. There is no
doubt when you read this book, it is a completely different book than anything you've ever read
before. And look, I've read parts of the Book of Mormon, I've read the entire Bhagavad Gita,
some of these other so-called holy scriptures, and it's laughable. You know, quite honestly,
I felt like reading before some of these other books just to know what they teach. You know,
I can maybe preach sermons against them. You know what makes it very hard? It's so boring. I mean,
I tried to read a few different books and then I get through a couple pages and I'm just like,
this is just boring. I've tried to read the Hadith before, which is all these miracles
and these sayings of Muhammad. And you get through a couple of pages and it's like,
it's clear science fiction and it's bad science fiction. It's boring. Can't even finish it. When
you read the Bible, you can tell, you know what? This was actually written by God. Second Peter
one verse 16, for we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the
power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he
received from God the father honor and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent
glory. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven,
we heard we were with him in the Holy mouth. Now a lot of people are saying they want to see a sign
and this is what they want. They want God to come down from heaven and speak and then just see
heaven opened up or whatever. And Peter basically experiences this, but notice what he says here in
verse number 19. We have also a more sure word of prophecy. Where to you do well that you take heed
is unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star rise in your
hearts. Knowing this verse that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation,
but the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they
are moved by the Holy Ghost. See the Bible says we have a more sure word of prophecy.
Yeah, there's books written by some people where they'll say, you know what? I went to hell for,
you know, like 23 minutes in hell or something like that. And then they left out. So you had
to watch in hell or something. I didn't read the book, but it's just like, well, how do you know
that's false? Because the Bible says that's not possible because in Luke 16, the Bible says it
is impossible when you go to hell to actually escape hell. That's how you know it's not possible.
And then of course people write books, you know, that they went to heaven. So how do you know that
that's not true? Because Paul said that I heard things or I saw things that I could not utter
when he actually, I believe it was Paul's. He was stoned to death that it got to experience
heaven for a short time. He said, I could not have these things, but it's amazing how everybody
else who goes to heaven can utter everything that they see in here, right? People will give
you personal experiences. Well, they'll say that they, I mean, I've had a lot of people said they
got to a car crash and they saw a bright light and that's how they know they're that, you know,
that that God's with them and they're saved and you try to show, but that's not what the Bible
says, but they have a personal experience. But here's the thing, the Word of God trumps
any personal experience that you have in your life. Turn your Bible to Titus 3. Titus 3. I mean,
I'm amazed the more I read the Bible, it's like you could just tell it's written by God. You know,
over the last several weeks I've been memorizing the book of Ecclesiastes and you know, I'm in
chapter five right now and I wanted to memorize it because it was a book that, you know, I feel
like I understand it decently, but there's also, you know, I just felt like it was a puzzle where
not everything's fully fitting together. Sometimes you're reading and you're trying to figure things
out and it's like, you know, now that I'm in chapter five, memorize the first four chapters,
I'm just like, man, this book makes perfect sense. It's like it just flows together. I understand it
and you can tell this was not written by man. This wisdom, because you know, I've read the
wisdom of Confucius and the guy that wrote Lao Tzu for Taoism and all these books and you read
their wisdom or Aristotle and Socrates and it's retarded. It's stupid. As a saved person, you can
see that it's foolishness. It doesn't make any sense, but then you read the book of Ecclesiastes
and you're like, wow, this is powerful. So those are basic arguments for God according to the word
of God. We've got the scripture, we've got the Holy Spirit of self-bearing witness, we've got
the conscience and then the creation. All these things prove that there is a God. Let me show you
the arguments against God according to Richard Dawkins, because this is the book that supposedly
proves that there is no God. And you know, when you read this book, you know, he, you know,
people will give comments on Amazon, like, you know what? There's no doubt if you read this book
and you're going to reject the idea of God. So let's see what their arguments are. And I'm going
to show you the biggest arguments. I'm not going to avoid the arguments they show. I'm going to show
you the biggest arguments they make in the book. Okay. One of the big things is logical arguments
they make to prove that there is no God. And one of the so-called logical fallacies, according to
Richard Dawkins, is that the omnipotence of God and the omniscience of God are self-contradictory,
that it is impossible to be all powerful and all knowing. And because it's impossible to be
all powerful and all knowing, therefore there is no God. That's one of the big arguments he uses.
Here's what he says. Incidentally, it has not escaped the notice of logicians that omniscience
and omnipotence are mutually incompatible. If God is omniscient, he must already know how he's going
to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can't
change his mind about his intervention, which means he's not omnipotent. Karen Owens has captured
this witty little paradox in equally engaging verse. Can omniscient God who knows the future
find the omnipotence to change his future mind? Sounds like the same argument, can God make a rock
that is too big for him to pick up? Right? It's just these stupid logical arguments they try to
make where it's just like, who in their right mind would think that someone being all knowing
could not be all powerful? And yeah, you know, God is all powerful, but if he's already made
the decision of what he's going to do in the future, then he's not going to change his mind.
It's not a matter of he doesn't have the power to do something. It's like, if he's already decided,
this is what I want to do. This is what I'm going to do. Then of course, he's not going to change
that because he's already decided what he wants to do. If he did change it, then obviously that
isn't what he wanted to do. I mean, that's, that's ridiculous. And of course we do see times in the
Bible where God has a plan of action, but he is willing to change if people do certain things and
then he does change. But if God's already made a decision, this is going to take place. The whale
is going to eat Jonah. It's going to happen no matter what. It's like, wow, could he change his
mind? And if he can't change his mind, he's already made his decision what he's going to do.
I mean, that's foolish. And logical arguments, I don't like wasting much time with them because
of the fact logical arguments break down. And I listen to debates between atheists and Christians
where they argue about whether God is real. And you're like, they'll both make logical arguments
that seem cool and everything like that, but honestly it's just a waste of time. Here's what
the Bible says in Titus chapter three. By the way, if somebody tries to use this argument with me at
the door, you know what I'm going to do? Have a nice day. I'm not going to waste 30 minutes or
an hour trying to prove to them that God is real. It's like, I can show you what the Bible says and
you can decide if you believe it, but I'm not going to waste my time with someone that just wants to
mock the existence of God and of course is not going to believe no matter what you say. Titus
three verse nine, but avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and striving about
the law for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that is inherited after the first and second
admonition rejects, knowing that he that is such is subverted and sin is being condemned of himself.
The Bible says to avoid foolish questions. If I was up on stage in a debate with Richard Dawkins,
and he does usually in a debate, what happens is one side gets to give their introductory 15
minute speech or whatever. After that speech, I would walk out and say, I'm avoiding this foolishness.
It's like, whatever, I lost the debate. This is ridiculous. I'm walking out because this is just
stupidity. That's what I would do. I wouldn't be in the debate to begin with, but I'm just saying,
it's like, I'm just going to avoid those full of questions. And it's like, well, can you answer
these 10 questions I had? Well, I mean, there's a foolish question. There's a foolish question.
There's a foolish question. There's a foolish question. There's a foolish question. It's like,
no, I'm not going to waste my time. Go to Proverbs 26. Proverbs 26. On the logical arguments,
on all of them, I think they're just foolish, but obviously there's people that believe these
things. So to them, I mean, there's a way that seems right unto a man, but the end there are
for the ways of death. I'll tell you what, before I was saved, you know what logically made sense
to me that good works gets you to heaven. It made no sense to me before that, you know,
believing on Christ alone is your salvation. I thought you had to live a good life to go to
heaven. That's what I believed. And then of course, when I heard the gospel and now looking back,
it's like, well, how foolish was I to think that my good works would impress God and get to heaven
that way. But just to show you that, you know what, what seems right to us is not necessarily
correct. We're here in Proverbs chapter 26, and here's what the Bible says in verse four,
answer not a fool according to his folly, lest they'll also be like unto him. Answer a fool
according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. And I remember like the first or
second time I went door to door soul wedding, I went in a group of three with two of my friends
and this person at the door said, well, you know, can you answer what this says? He said,
this is a contradiction in Proverbs 26 verses four and five. Should you answer a fool or should
you not answer a fool? Well, the way I interpret this is there's a time to answer a fool and
there's a time not to answer a fool. Well basically, you know what, you answer a fool every
once in a while because he's going to be wise in his own conceit. You know, many times it's like
answer not a fool. And honestly, if I was in a debate with an atheist giving these stupid
arguments to try to say there is no God, I would say answer not a fool according to his folly.
It's like, here's your 15 minute rebuttal, Matthew Stuckey. How are you going to respond
to his arguments? Answer not a fool according to his folly. That's it. I don't need 15 minutes.
That's all I got because there's no need to waste time with these things. Go in your Bible
to Romans one, Romans chapter one, Romans one. Another logical argument that Richard
Dawkins gives to try to say there is no God. The first argument, which I think is pretty
stupid, is what's impossible for God to be all powerful and all knowing. And he just gives a
dumb vein logical argument that he thinks makes sense. The other argument Richard Dawkins makes
is the Boeing 747 argument. Now, this is an argument that people make to prove that there
is God. And essentially what the Boeing 747 argument is, it would be like, if you were to
look at this pulpit right here and I asked you, do you believe that this pulpit made itself,
that there was a random explosion and this came together? Well, of course the answer would be,
well, no, that's impossible. So of course, if the world is infinitely more complex than a pulpit,
the world didn't just create itself. That's just common sense. That should be good enough.
But Richard Dawkins uses that argument to say that proves there is no God. You're like,
what? Here's what Richard Dawkins says in his book. And this is a book that sold tens of
millions of copies. The God Delusion is the biggest book out there to try to say there is
no God. Here's what it says in the book. The ultimate Boeing 747, the argument from
improbability is the big one. In the traditional guise of the argument from design, it is easily
today's most popular argument offered in favor of the existence of God. And it is seen by an
amazingly large number of theists as completely and utterly convincing. Now, the Boeing 747 is
basically saying, well, a plane is very complex. And so if a plane is so complex that it could not
create itself, the world could not create itself. Now this past year, Boeing has not been that
successful. So I don't know if this argument would be used anymore because it'd be like,
well, Boeing breaks apart and has crashes all the time. So let's go with a different plane.
Right. But it says here, it is indeed a very strong and I suspect unanswerable argument,
but in precisely the opposite direction from the theist intention. The argument from
improbability properly deployed comes close to proving that God does not exist. My name
for the statistical demonstration that God almost certainly does not exist is the ultimate Boeing
747 gambit. He's got an entire chapter on this in his book. I mean, just complete foolishness.
And what he basically says is this. Wait a minute. If something had to create this world
and the world could not create itself, that means what created the world has to be more complex. And
therefore, it couldn't have come in existence on its own. That's what his argument is. Saying
basically, well, the world, if it couldn't create itself, will have to God create himself. And of
course, the stupidity of this is the fact that God is obviously much smarter than us. God created us
in a system of time. We don't have all knowledge. We don't have all understanding. And I don't like
to get into these logical arguments, but this is what I've heard explained before that makes a lot
of sense if you try to think of this logically. Imagine that you created a two dimensional world
with, you know, a man and a woman. You created like two dimensional Mario. Okay, let's say go
way back in the Nintendo days before N64. And let's say, for example, you were to put your finger
inside of this two dimensional world. Are they going to see a three dimensional object inside
that two dimensional world? No, they're not because they can't comprehend a third dimension
because three dimensions is outside the realm of two dimensions that they're in. They're not
going to see a spherical object or a cylinder. They're going to see some sort of, I guess,
like circle, just that alone. All they understand are two dimensions. Well, here's the thing about
this. God is not a three dimensional object. God created us in a three dimensional world. I mean,
the idea of God being outside of time doesn't make logical sense to us. You say why? Because
we're in a system of time. We're not that smart to understand that. So God created us inside this
world and God is much smarter. Just like, for example, if you were to create a robot,
a robot's only going to understand what you program it to understand, right? If you create
a two dimensional world, it's not going to understand three dimensions. So he used this
logical argument to say there is no God. It's a pretty foolish argument in my opinion. One of
the big arguments he uses, which I'm not going to show you, talk too much about this, is why
does evil exist? That's actually his biggest argument on every page. If God's real, then why
do murders take place? If God's real, why does death take place? If God's real, because we have
free will, you idiots. Man has free will. And we sin. I mean, God gave us free will. Guess what? In
our free will, we do wrong. And look, all of us do wrong. I mean, most of us are never going to
commit murder. Most of us, hopefully, are never going to steal, at least on a big level. But you
know what? All of us have sinned before. And in our free will, we do wrong. And guess what? We
live in a world of chaos because of our own choices. That's reality. Another argument he
uses is that all scientists and educated people believe in evolution. So basically, we've all
heard this before. If you don't believe the earth is billions of years old, it's because you're
stupid, right? Every smart person believes this. So if you don't believe this, therefore, you're
idiots, right? And so basically, what they'll say is there's two possibilities. You're either
not intelligent or you're just uneducated on the topic because nobody is going to believe in God
unless you've been brainwashed or unless you're a fool, basically. Well, what's funny about this
is the person that we would consider the smartest man in the last thousand years wrote commentary
in the Bible by the name of Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton, in many quotes, mocks atheism. He thinks
it's foolish. He thinks it's dumb. And by the way, Johann Kappel also, which are probably the two
biggest mathematical and scientific minds of the last thousand years, mock the idea that there is
no God. It says here in this article, and this is what Richard Dawkins says about Isaac Newton,
because these atheists never like to talk about Isaac Newton because he was such a strong believer
in the Bible. But here's what it says. Newton did indeed claim to be religious. So did almost
everybody until significantly, I think, the 19th century when there was less social and judicial
pressure than in earlier centuries to profess religion and more scientific support for abandoning
it. The 19th century is the last time when it was possible for an educated person to admit to
believing in miracles like the virgin birth without embarrassment. So according to Richard
Dawkins, well, the only reason why Isaac Newton believed in God is because he existed before the
19th century because everybody after the 19th century, that's smart as an atheist, according
to his argument. The thing is Isaac Newton didn't just believe in God. He wrote commentary on the
Bible. He wasn't just a passive believer. I mean, Isaac Newton calculated the age of the earth and
he said it's less than 7,000 years old, right? But what's also ridiculous is I know a lot of
very intelligent people that believe in God and believe in the Bible. I mean, my sister is
possibly the most intelligent person I've ever met. She skipped second grade, seventh grade,
eighth grade. She's supposed to go to college when she was 13 and my parents held her back a couple
of years because they thought she was too young. And guess what? My sister believes the earth is
less than 7,000 years old. Well, I guess she's stupid even though she would pass any test that
would say that she's a genius, but she's stupid because she believes the earth is young and she
believes the Bible. Actually, a lot of very intelligent people. What's interesting about
this is the ones that reject the idea of God actually do not produce anything real in this
world. The scientific community that rejects God are the theoretical scientists, meaning they're
not producing anything, meaning they're not making the world a better place, meaning they're trying
to sell you on a theory, not an actual product where they've done anything.
Whereas people like Isaac Newton, they actually created real things. People like Johann Kepler
created real things. And you know what? The scientists today, they're actually successful.
They're actually producing something real rather than just this thought that they have.
So there's the arguments for God. The Bible teaches the creation of God proves that God is
real. If you look outside and you don't know God is real, you just don't want to believe in God.
The conscience proves that there's a God. Inside of us, we feel guilty when we do wrong.
That's not random. That's not an accident. That was given by God. The Bible says the
Holy Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. As a saved person,
you know the Holy Spirit shows you and you know you're a child of God. These things prove that
there is God. And of course, the scripture itself proves that this was written by God.
You know God is real. The arguments against God, according to Richard Dawkins,
well, he says, I mean, God cannot be all powerful and omniscient. Those contradict.
Therefore, there is no God. He says, well, you know what? Because God, if the universe can't
create itself, then obviously God can't create himself. OK, let's talk about morality and sin,
though, because it's obvious God is real. So why is it people want to reject the idea of God?
Here's what it says in Romans one, verse twenty one, because that when they knew God,
remember, this is right after verse twenty, that shows the creation proves God is real,
because that when they knew God, they glorified him, not as God, neither are thankful,
but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened.
Did you know that every single person that's an atheist used to believe in God?
They were born with that belief in God. They understood God was real. You say,
what took place? They were not thankful. They didn't appreciate what God had given them.
I mean, I regularly will talk like kids and I'll ask them, you know, what are you thankful for?
You know, what has God done for you in your life? As I said, you know, you'd be surprised how much
your kids know my two and a half year old son, Ezra, just having a conversation yesterday.
And he's explaining, you know, he's like happy for his brother and his sister.
It's like he understands that he was created by God. He understands God is real. It just is built
in to everybody, even at a young age. I've never had a doubt about the existence of God in my life.
You know what takes place, though? Some people have really messed up childhoods. And instead
of just being thankful for the things they do have from God, they grow bitter and rebellious toward
God. And they don't want to believe in God because they're mad at God. But the Bible says they knew
God. The Bible says these atheists, they did know and understand God was real one time. And here's
what it says in verse twenty two, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And
look, when you listen to these famous scientists, the Stephen Hawkins and the Richard Dawkins
talk on and on about how there is no God, it's like you're just a bunch of fools. The Bible says
the fool has said in his heart there is no God. I mean, one of the one of the most famous scientists
in the world today is a guy by the name of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Neil deGrasse Tyson said this
world does not exist. We live inside of a computer. We are a computer simulation from
some kid who lives in his parents' basement. And it's like, and this is one of the smartest
people in the world. By the way, this is also what Elon Musk believes as well. For those that
don't know Neil deGrasse Tyson, we live. I mean, you might be a lot richer than me, Mr. Elon Musk,
but you're a fool. You got to be kidding me. But this is what they teach. I mean, because I had
heard this argument a long time ago. I don't think anyone really believed this, though.
We're not really here. You just think you're here. But no, a lot of the top scientists,
they believe that. Right? That guy, the Japanese guy, Michio Kaku,
you know, who said that, you know, we can basically recreate the Big Bang if we take
basically the density and size of Jupiter and condense it into a dot. And if we can do that
in a laboratory, then the world's going to explode and the Big Bang is going to happen again.
You're going to take the size of Jupiter and condense it into a small little dot. And this
is supposed to be one of the smartest people in the world. That's not giving me a lot of faith
that, you know, no offense, because I think, you know, Japanese people are generally pretty
educated. But that guy's a Japanese American. That doesn't give me a lot of faith in,
you know, Japanese people or Americans, if that's the sort of logic that you're coming up with,
that we're going to condense the matter of Jupiter under the size of a dot. This is foolishness.
And it's like they think that what we believe is foolish to say that God is real.
The Bible says they profess themselves through lies, they became fools and changed the glory
of the uncorruptible God into an image made like the corruptible man and the birds and four foot
of bees and creeping things. Wherefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lust of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth
of God into a lie and worship and serve the creature more than the creator who is blessed
forever. Amen. Basically, they don't want to believe that God is real. They hold the truth
in unrighteousness. They consider God's rules to be unfair and unjust and unrighteous. Go to your
Bible, Romans chapter two, Romans two. In the book, the God Delusion in chapter six is called
the Roots of Morality. And Richard Dawkins mocks the idea that you need to believe in God to be a
good and moral person. He says, you know, atheists are good and moral people. You don't need the
Bible. You don't need God to be a good person. Now, I completely disagree with that because
people that reject God and don't want to believe in God live pretty filthy and sinful lives.
But this is what he says in the book, Roots of Morality, tries to argue, you know, we don't need
God. We don't need an absolute morality to be a good person. OK, well, notice what the Bible says
in Romans two, verse 11. For there is no respect. And by the way, let me just explain this, that if
there is no God and we are a random explosion that has evolved over billions of years,
you know what it also means? There are no absolute standards of right and wrong.
See, the absolute standard of right and wrong comes because God told us what's right and what's
wrong. It is wrong to lie. You say, why? Because thus saith the Lord, thou shalt not bear false
witness. That's why. It's wrong to murder. Why? The Bible says thou shalt not kill.
We can go to the Bible and the Bible tells us what's right and what's wrong.
And there's certain things that are not directly mentioned in the Bible. Like, for example,
the Bible does not directly talk about, you know, doing heroin. But we can take the principles
and the fact that drinking is wrong, according to the Bible and our bodies of the temple,
the Holy Ghost, meaning that if we essentially harm our bodies for some lustful pleasure,
then it's wrong. OK, so there's things that are directly mentioned by the Bible,
and then there's just principles we can get to answer various questions in life.
OK, but if there is no God, that means this is not the word of God.
And if there is no God, there is no absolute right and no absolute wrong.
And one of the big things that atheists have trouble explaining is where did the conscience
come from? Because all of us, whether saved or unsaved, if you do something wrong, you feel bad
about it. At a young age, I remember, you know, doing things that were wrong and you're really
afraid to get caught. You tell a lie and you know it's wrong and you feel guilty. And trust me,
I know from raising kids that, you know what, you ask your kids to look at your eyes. You sit them
down. It's like, look at me. And it's just like, it's like, look at me. They do not want to look
in your eyes. You say, why? They feel guilty. They know what they did was wrong. You say,
why is it? Well, because the fact is the Bible teaches that God gave us a conscience.
But the thing is, if there is no God, there is no right and wrong. There's no standard.
I can't stand up here and say that murder is wrong if there is no God.
There's no absolute standard. I can't say stealing is wrong. I can't say lying is wrong.
But since the Bible says it, I can't say it. And here's what the Bible says about the conscience
in verse 11, Romans 2 verse 11. There is no respect of persons with God. For as many have
sinned without law shall also perish without law. And as many have sinned in the law shall be judged
by the law. For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall
be justified. For in the Gentiles which have not the law, this is referring to people that do not
grow up with the word of God, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not
the law are law unto themselves. The Bible says that by nature naturally people do certain things
and don't do certain things because they know it's wrong. Every child knows it's wrong to hurt
another child. They know that. You don't have to teach them that. They already know it. Which show
the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their
thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. Everybody knows this from a young age
because you have a conscience and it teaches you right, it teaches you wrong. And what's amazing is
you know if you see the pdfs of all these books from atheists you'll never hear them mention the
word conscience one time. You say why is that? Because they cannot explain it. Why is it that
humans are different than animals? Well I would say because man is made in the image of God. We have an
eternal soul that determines whether we go to heaven or hell. We're very different than animals.
But the thing is if there is no God we're just an evolved animal. So why is it humans think and
act so much differently than animals? They can't explain that because what they believe makes no
sense. Go to Genesis chapter 6. Genesis 6. And here's what Richard Dawkins says in his book.
A religious thinker could offer a more genuinely moral interpretation along the lines of the
following statement from an imaginary apologist. If you don't believe in God you don't believe
there are any absolute standards of morality. With the best will in the world you may intend
to be a good person but how do you decide what is good and what is bad? Only religion can ultimately
provide your standards of good and evil. And yeah you know I would use that exact argument.
That yeah you know if you don't have a belief in God and the Bible is not the word of God you do
not have a standard of right and wrong. And you know why atheists don't want to have a standard
of right and wrong? Because they do a lot of wrong. They do a lot of sin. I mean if you live
a really sinful life you're not going to want to have laws and rules that tell you what to do.
Look if the government makes a law that you know about doing drugs and makes a real strict law of
going to prison for 20 years you know what it doesn't bother me because I don't do drugs.
So why would I be offended by the law? If you're not guilty of something you're not going to be
afraid. It's like let's say for example the government said because you know the Philippines
has gone back and forth on the death penalty for murder and various things. Imagine if tomorrow
they bring back the death penalty for murder. Look if your reaction was this is horrible this
is awful. I'd be like whoa what kind of dark skeletons do you have in your closet? I mean
have you killed someone before? Because it wouldn't bother me because guess what I'm not a murderer.
See the Bible said the law was not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedience.
I mean the Bible put like a really strict law about if you steal from 7-11 you're going to go
to jail for 20 years. I think that would be too harsh but it really wouldn't bother me. You know
why? I don't steal from 7-11 so why would it bother me? And when people have a problem with
the rules and the laws of God it makes me think you know what you have something that you're
hiding. Here's what Richard Dawkins says because Richard Dawkins mocks the 10 commandments. One of
his other big arguments there is no God and said the 10 commandments is a good proof there is no
God. That they make no sense whatsoever. Here's what he says about the 10 commandments. In my own
amended 10 commandments I would choose some of the above but I would also try to find room from
among others. Here's the 10 commandments of Richard Dawkins. Enjoy your own sex life so long
as it damages nobody else and leave others to enjoy theirs in private whatever their inclinations
which are none of your business. So basically don't say anything bad about the LGBT is what
he's basically saying. He says do not discriminate or oppress on the basis of sex race or as far as
possible species. Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves
how to evaluate evidence and how to disagree with you. So basically don't tell your kids that God is
real. Don't tell your kids the Bible is the word of God. Value the future on a time scale longer
than your own. These are his 10 commandments. I gotta be honest I like the 10 commandments that
God made. I think they're pretty good. One of his 10 commandments is essentially without saying it
don't say anything bad about the LGBT. That's what he's saying. But don't say anything bad
about vice pongies. Don't say anything bad about pedophilia and all these things because
he said because in this he said enjoy your own sex life so long as it damages nobody else. You
know what Richard Dawkins has also said pedophilia does not cause any harm or damage to anybody.
And you know what he's saying then pedophilia is fine. I mean he said before I was molested
didn't do anything to me. Well it could have fooled me in the fact that you hate God so
much that maybe there's a reason Richard Dawkins. When you are the number one person in the world
that people would think of as someone who hates God. Look if you were to take a poll throughout
the entire world name one person that mocks and hates God the most common answer would be Richard
Dawkins. Over a billion people would say Richard Dawkins. Everybody in America would say Richard
Dawkins. I mean he's from the UK. Everybody in the UK and Europe would say Richard Dawkins.
He's the most famous atheist in the entire world.
And he often will criticize the Bible. He talks about how unfair it is that everybody died in the
flood. Now look I believe everything the Bible says. And when you read the Bible one thing you
do find God is very holy and God is righteous. Yeah you know what God destroyed the entire world
with a worldwide flood. You know what God is right and we're wrong. It doesn't matter how you
feel. Here's what the Bible says in Genesis 6 verse 13. And God said unto Noah the end of all
flesh has come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold I will
destroy them with the earth. Go to Genesis 19. Genesis 19.
By the way Richard Dawkins tries to talk about the Bible a lot. He shows he doesn't understand
the Bible very well because he references Genesis 19 and he'll talk about how Lot was chosen because
Lot was so righteous compared to everybody else. It's like no if you read this in Genesis 19 verse
29 here's what it says. And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God
remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities and
wished Lot dwell. Why did God spare Lot? It was not because of Lot. It was because of Abraham.
If you remember the previous chapter Abraham is trying to bargain with God and then Abraham is
praying for God and thinking and praying for Lot and thinking about Lot and the sole reason God
spared Lot in Genesis 19 was not because of Lot. It's actually because of Abraham. Because yeah it
was a lot of saved person. Yes he was but you know what there's also a lot of saved people that died
in the flood and guess what a lot of saved people go down with the wicked when they side on the
wrong side. Go in your Bible to Romans 1 and we'll quickly finish up here. Romans 1.
Romans chapter 1 and as you return to Romans 1 let me just read you what he talks about here
in this book because throughout the book Richard Dawkins he mocks the idea of God. He mocks every
religion but he also justifies sin because this is what he says in his book and this is this
actually shocked me. He says nevertheless it is clearly unjust to visit upon all pedophiles
a vengeance appropriate to the tiny minority who are also murderers. So basically pedophile is not
that bad unless you're also a murderer. What? Because if you're to ask me I cannot think of a
worse sin than pedophilia. That's the worst thing I could come up with. He says all three of the
boarding schools I attended employed teachers whose affection for small boys overstepped the
bounds of propriety. That was indeed reprehensible. Nevertheless if 50 years on they had been hounded
by vigilance or lawyers as no better than child murderers I should have felt obliged to come to
their defense even as the victim of one of them. You're going to defend pedophiles? That's what he
says and he also says this the Roman Catholic Church has borne a heavy share of such retrospective
appropriate for all sorts of reasons I dislike the Roman Catholic Church but I dislike unfairness
even more and I can't help wondering whether this one institution has been unfairly demonized over
the issue especially in Ireland in America. What Richard Dawkins says is you know what I hate
everything about religion but you know what I didn't step in and defend the Catholic Church
because everyone talks about how much pedophilia is taking place. This is a little bit overboard. I
mean shouldn't we be more forgiving for pedophilia? It's like he's literally said teaching your kids
creation is child abuse but pedophilia is not. You know what that just shows? People like this are
just evil people. They just hate God. They hate the existence of God. They hate what the Bible says.
You don't have to turn. You're in Romans one. Let me just quickly summarize these last couple
things. We see the arguments for God. The arguments against God. We see morality and sin. Then we see
the foolishness. You know C.S. Lewis is the one that made this famous and other people have said
as well. I've said this actually I've told you before that when it comes to Jesus, Jesus said
he was God. He accepted worship. Said he was the savior, the Messiah, the Christ and so there's
basically three possibilities. Jesus was telling the truth. He was lying because he's a bad person
or he's insane. Right? Those are the three possibilities. Either he's telling the truth,
he's crazy or he's an evil person that's deceiving the entire world. Right? According to Richard
Dawkins well actually there's a fourth possibility. Maybe he thought he was God but he was mistaken.
Wouldn't that make you crazy? But he doesn't want to admit well you know what this is true because
you know that argument is used to prove that Christianity is different than other religions
and of course I think it's a good solid argument. Right? But it just shows that he's being foolish.
He doesn't want to you know talk for listing about anything. He also says on page 97 of his book
that there's a good argument that Jesus never lived at all. He says this, it is even possible
to mount a serious though not widely supported historical case that Jesus never lived at all.
As has been done by among professors, Professor G.A. Wells of the University of London in a number
of books including Did Jesus Exist? Our entire system of time is based on the birth of Jesus
Christ and you can change BC to BCE if you want. It doesn't change the fact that's based on the
birth of Jesus Christ but we don't even know if Jesus ever existed. It's funny because
Julius Caesar who came before Jesus he would never dispute whether Julius Caesar was real.
He would never dispute if Alexander the Great is real but you're going to dispute whether Jesus
is real even though there's far more information written about Jesus than either one of those
people. But when people make statements like this you know what it's showing you that they are not
trying to base this in reality or facts at all. They don't care. They just want you not to believe
in God because they're a wicked and evil person and they want you to believe the same thing as
them. Here's what the Bible says in Romans 1 verse 26. For this cause God gave them up
unto vile affections for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against
nature. Likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burn in their lust one toward
another men with men working out which is unseemly and receiving themselves that recompense of their
error which was me. Now verse 26 is we're saying saying women with women in verse 27 men with men
and this is the world we live in today where the LGBT is just all over the place.
I mean what for many of you that grew up here in the Philippines when you were a child you
would have never seen men cross-dressing. You see it all the time now. I mean like I was saying
when we were preaching in the schools you know just over a week ago it's like I'm preaching
this classroom and then it's like during the middle of my presentation I realized that some
girl in the front row was actually a guy wearing a dress. It's like what kind of world do we live
in? Look it doesn't matter how often you see it. It's not normal for men to dress like women.
It's not normal for men to put on high heels and lipstick and want to act like a woman.
God made men a certain way and he made women a certain way. We're different.
And we have to keep the distinctions there. This doesn't make men better than women or
women better than men but we're different. We don't want to be that different.
And yet in the world we live in today it's like the lines are being blurred. And you know this
is the world we live in where people what the Bible is saying here is people reject God. They
get mad at God and they get filled full of just these lustful and sinful desires. Verse 28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge. Meaning they didn't want to
think about God. They didn't want to know God. They didn't want to remember God. They don't like God.
God gave them over to reprobate minds to do those things which are not convenient.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiters,
haters of God. They hate God. Despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God that they wish to commit such things are
worthy of death. Not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them.
One thing I want to key in on all these attributes is the fact the Bible says they hate God.
See Richard Dawkins used to believe in God even out of his own mouth he believed in God until he
was like 13 or something like that. And then all of a sudden he decided he didn't believe in God
anymore. What the Bible says here is they hate God. Richard Dawkins hates God. He said in his
book and he said this a million times before that here's the thing he said you know what if
the Bible is true if God is real and he's the God of the Bible then he is an evil and wicked
being. He said I cannot think of anything more evil than the God of the Bible. You know what
you're doing? You're actually proving the Bible by showing that you don't like to retain God
in your knowledge. You're holding the truth in unrighteousness. You don't worry about even God.
That's not evidence there is no God. You know what it's saying? I don't like the God of the Bible.
It doesn't change anything. Look you could hate our president all you want. It doesn't change
the fact our president is still our president. It doesn't change anything no matter how you feel
about it. I think he's the most wicked person. It doesn't change the fact he's still the president
regardless of how you feel. And I don't think he's the most wicked person but if that's how you feel
it doesn't change anything. He's still the president for another what three and a half years or
whatever right? Nothing changes. You can think whatever you want. It's not going to change
anything. And look you can try to wish God out of existence like a little kid. Just close your eyes.
Just dream and like the Wizard of Oz just tap those shoes together Mr. Richard Dawkins.
And she's like I don't want to believe in God. I want to be in Kansas again or whatever it says.
I want to be in Kansas again. It doesn't change reality. It's like God is real and you know what
Richard Dawkins when he dies is going to split hell wide open. Let's close the word of prayer.
Heavenly Father thank you for allowing us to be here today and I ask you to help us just to
know our Bibles and to love our Bibles and be able to answer people that are skeptics. God help us in
this world we live in where people are rejecting God and wanting to live sinful lives. Help us to
reach people at a young age before they go down that path. God we pray these things in Jesus name.