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Week 2 – CRIMES
Week 2 - CRIMES
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Synopsis
Stealing from God, Lesson Two, opened with a review of the acrostic CRIMES, which Turek uses to highlight the intellectual CRIMES atheists are making when denying God.
Each letter in CRIMES is representative of “one or more aspects of reality that wouldn’t exist if atheism were true.”
Main Points Covered
“Those are aspects of reality that atheists often say disprove God, when, in fact, none of them would exist unless God did.
Who is God? Do atheists merely lack a belief in God?
- Causality: How could no one create something out of nothing?
- Reason: Why atheism makes reason impossible.
- Information: Why Darwinism is dead.
- Intentionality: Why God is necessary even if evolution is true.
- Morality: How atheists steal rights from God.
- Evil: Why evil disproves atheism.
- Science: Science doesn’t say anything, scientists do!
Frank Turek listed how Christians perceive the Attributes of God:
- Omnipresence
- Love
- Immutable
- Holiness
- Power
- Knowledge
- Justice
“The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think about God”
— A. W. Tozer, an American pastor in the Christian and Missionary Alliance and an author who emphasized the need for a deeper knowledge of God and development of the "inner life.
Homework
Here are some of the questions to think about this week:
- Reflect on what and how you think about God
- Can you succinctly share what you mean by “God”?
- What are His attributes and how do they influence you?
- Do you think atheists merely “lack a belief” in God?