Church of Virgin Mary & St. Athanasius
Prepare to Serve Program
Theistic and Atheistic View of the Universe
Oct 26, 2025
Apologetics Vs. Evangelism
Apologetics
Evangelism
What is it
To defend false teaching
To bring Christ to those who don’t know Him yet
Biblical Reference
“Go t
herefore and
make disciples
of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching
them to observe all things that I have
commanded you; and I am with you always,
even to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:19-
20
Books to use
and always be ready to give a
defense
to
everyone who asks you a reason for the
hope that is in you, with meekness and
fear.”
1 Peter 3:15
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts,
It’s a commandment;
The world needs it
Why do it?
Any book but the Bible*
* but, you must know the Bible
Mainly just the Bible
Common definitions
God (Theos)?
Interested
God exists
Strong belief
Gnostic Theist
Weak belief
Agnostic
Theist
God doesn’t
exist
Strong belief
Gnostic
Atheist
Weak belief
Agnostic
Atheist
Not interested
at all
Apatheism
Common definitions, alternate view
“I don’t think God exists”, or “God doesn’t exist, but I could be wrong”
Gnostic Atheist
Gnostic Theist
Agnostic Atheist
Agnostic Theist
Agnosticism
A person who does not believe in the existence of a God or any Gods
“I think God exists”, or “God exist, but I could be wrong”
A person who strongly believes in the existence of a God or any Gods.
Theos = God
γνώση (gnósis) == knowledge
The Journey from Atheism to Theism
A creator
How we best describe the universe? Atheist or Theist point of view?
Authenticity of the Bible�
How do we know what we know about Him is true
One Truth
Logic and Logical Fallacies Does A truth exist vs Pluralism?
God
Which God best fit the creator of the universe?
Minor the minors
One off topics: Violence of the OT, Miracles, Noah’s Ark, Homosexuality, Christian dominations
How do we know resurrection is true?
He truly resurrected from the dead
Effects pointing to a creator
Atheist vs. Theist to explain the universe
Does GOD Exist?
Breakdown of the word GOD
Goodness
Origin
Design
Breakdown of the word GOD
Goodness
Origin
Design
We need a God to exist- Goodness Effect
How did we get our Objective Morality from?
How could the whole world (Except criminals and psychopath) agree on things as Honor, Love, Care…etc?
Atheist view: We get morality from the societies we live in.
But which society, how about historical changes. This is merely subjective morality
Morality Measurements- objective morality
How do we know right from wrong
… so the question still stands, How did we get our Objective Morality from?
Theist view: There must be a creator/Moral Law Giver, or something outside of us as humans that gave us the objective morality.
Christian view: “So God created man in His own image;” Genesis 1:27
Knowing Evil requires knowing a GOOD God… let me explain!
Evil
Morality
Moral Law
Moral Law Giver
I can have sun without shadow,
but I can’t have shadow without Sun
Breakdown of the word GOD
Goodness
Origin
Design
We need a God to exist- Origin Effect
Atheist view: Time/Space/Matter always existed. We always had a universe, ours just happen to have a planet that could sustain life.
SPACE, TIME, MATTER
SPACE, TIME, MATTER
SPACE, TIME, MATTER
So, where did SPACE, TIME, MATTER come from?
“Almost everyone now believes that the universe, and time itself, had �a beginning at the Big Bang” – Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Theist view: Everything that had a beginning, had a cause. �The universe had a beginning, therefore, the universe had a cause.
Whoever/whatever created the universe could never be made out space, time or matter
For Anything to exist, we need 3 things: �
SPACE,
TIME,
MATTER
Breakdown of the word GOD
Goodness
Origin
Design
We need a God to exist- Design Effect
Atheist view: Time, Chance, and natural laws of physics caused all things to be design the way we observe them in the universe
We need a God to exist- Design Effect
If the Gravitational Force were altered more than 1 part in 1040, the sun would not exist and the moon would crash into the earth or sheer off into space
Theist view: A very intelligent cause/designer designed this.
Information in our cells: How could our DNA be made this way?
We have ~30,000,000,000,000 cells, each of which has
3,000,000,000 DNA base pairs
It’s one thing to CREATE at the Big Bang moment, it’s another to keep nature going the way it is.
Humans, animals, and plants continue to grow in the exact same direction? WHO designed that?
A Good God needs to exist for the universe to exist
Goodness
Origin
Design
Evil
Morality
Moral Law
Moral Law Giver
Q: either
Or
Which one makes more sense!?
References: Why a creator needed to exist?
Chapter 13