Last week at XZONE was “DUNK NIGHT.” – Congrats to Kevin T. who won the individual dunk championship. – There’s only 5 more XZONE jr.high youth group gatherings this school year. Check out the calendar HERE. – The talk on Tuesday was one of my favorites: the proof that God exists. Here’s the short version … (#1) proof is more than just seeing. lots of people are convicted of crimes that no one every witnessed because of DNA evidence, etc. (#2) one of the great proofs of God’s existence is called the “intelligent designer” argument. The universe is too complicated to have formed randomly or by luck. It took an intelligent designer to fashion together the complexities of DNA, solar systems & the big bang. 2/3′s of scientists have convinced themselves that a God must exist because of studying His creation. (#3) eye witnesses. I might not have ever seen God, but I can point you to someone who has. Similarly, I’ve never been to China, but I know it exists because other eye-witnesses have been there. The Bible tells of dozens of people that saw Jesus after His resurrection. (#4) the Bible is good evidence of God, and I can prove it’s validity. The Dead-Sea Scrolls, and the 21,000+ ancient copies of the Bible that we have in museums testify to it’s unchanging & accurate record keeping. (#5) But there’s other ancient records of Jesus, too … like the book of Josephus. (#6) Because Jesus was a historical man, living in a historical country … I can show you archeological evidence that Jesus lived, died & was buried in Jerusalem. You can still get on a plane and go visit the Temple remains. (#7) Common sense … it makes more sense that Jesus really existed & was God; than it makes sense that He didn’t/wasn’t. – - That’s the short version. But we believe in a rational & historical God that really exists. We don’t have to blindly believe simply because someone told us to. We believe because we’re convinced. – - > no XZONE next week during Spring Break. We’ll return in 2 weeks, and if the weather cooperates, we’ll have XZONE outside.
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