Seeking Answers…Finding More Questions Part 5: Will I Choose Life Under the Sun or Life Under the Son? Seeking Answers A Study in Ecclesiastes Lesson 5, December 18, 2011
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Seeking AnswersFinding More Questions Part 5: Will I Choose
Life Under the Sun or Life Under the Son? Seeking Answers A Study
in Ecclesiastes Lesson 5, December 18, 2011
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Todays Scripture But without faith it is impossible to please
him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he
is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. -- Hebrews
11:6
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Thought for Today Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes
age comes alone. -- Unknown
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God has given man a desire for eternity and perpetuity;
therefore man cannot be satisfied with what is merely temporal.
Mans quest for the eternal, however, is frustrated by his finite
limits. -- The King James Study Bible, footnote to Ecclesiastes
3:11 -- ??????
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Morality Social Political Commercial Family Sexual What Will
Govern Igors Interactions with Others? Ethics
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Igors World: The World of the Naturalist Nature: The Whole of
Everything There is Nothing More There is nothing out here!!!
Problem: If anything exists that is not explained by Cause and
Effect, there must be something beyond Nature -- the Supernature A
vacuum, void, nothingness
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Facts Hypothesis Action Seeking Answers Under the Sun Truth
Believe a Lie Resources Himself Sensory Observations Personal
Experiences Recall/Journals Experiment Intellect/Reason
Pre-conceived Notions Others Family/Friends Teachers/Authority
Books/Magazines Media Internet Gods Word
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The Process Has Become Fraught with Peril for Igor!! His
pursuit of answers to his questions coupled with the growing
disparity between his answers and his continued observations and
experiences has put him in danger of:
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Igors Dilemma: The World of the Naturalist Doesnt Have the
Answers Nature: The Whole of Everything There is Nothing More There
is nothing out here!!! Problem: If anything exists that is not
explained by Cause and Effect, there must be something beyond
Nature -- the Supernature A vacuum, void, nothingness
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The World of the Dualist Would Spell Doom to Igors Search for
Answers Both are independent and self-existent. After Creation,
there is no interaction of the Super-natural with the Natural
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Facts Hypothesis Action Seeking Answers Above the Sun Truth
Believe a Lie Resources Gods Word Any Other Source The Truth Action
Salvation/Immortality Put these in proper perspective
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Igors Search Takes Him Outside His Former World Nature: The
Whole of Everything There is Nothing More
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The Supernatural is: self-existent, infinite, omniscient,
omnipotent. Does God Interact with Me? The Supernatural Can, Has,
Will, or Does Interact With the Natural: Creation (Gen 1:1-2)
Propagation (Gen 1:3) Sustenance (Matt 5:45) Judgment (Gen 1:4; Heb
9:27) Providence (Job 10:12 NIV, Gen 50:20) Termination (2 Peter
2:10) Intervention With Cause (Ex 14:21) Without Cause: Natural Law
Suspended or Superseded by the Supernatural (John 11:43) Natural
Revelation (Ps 19:1; Rom 1:20-25) Special Devine Revelation
Incarnation (Luke 1:29-33) The Resurrection (Luke 24:1-7)
Inspiration (2 Tim 3:16-17)
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The Supernatural is: self-existent, infinite, omniscient,
omnipotent. God Does Interact with Me!! We Are Not Alone!! The
Supernatural Can, Has, Will, or Does Interact With the Natural:
Creation (Gen 1:1-2) Propagation (Gen 1:3) Sustenance (Matt 5:45)
Judgment (Gen 1:4; Heb 9:27) Providence (Job 10:12 NIV, Gen 50:20)
Termination (2 Peter 3:10) Intervention With Cause (Ex 14:21)
Without Cause: Natural Law Suspended or Superseded by the
Supernatural (John 11:43) Natural Revelation (Ps 19:1; Rom 1:20-25)
Special Devine Revelation Incarnation (Luke 1:29-33) The
Resurrection (Luke 24:1-7) Inspiration (2 Tim 3:16-17) "When humans
should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the
inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put
on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only
the first sketch." -- C. S. Lewis
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