by James Thomas Lee, Jr. 11/06/96 Copyrighted 1995 by James Thomas Lee, Jr. Copyright Number: TXu 704-227 INTRODUCTION {1,330 words}PART I - UNDERSTANDING THE PLOT AGAINST US CHAPTER 1. EXPLORING THE SYSTEM AROUND US {319 words} a. Getting Myself Turned Around {341 words} b. Trying To Understand What Had Happened {510 words} c. A Nation in Trouble {367 words} CHAPTER 2. SYMPTOMS OF A NATIONAL SPIRITUAL DECLINE {137 words} a. A Breakdown in the Churches {202 words} Table 1. Symptoms of a National Spiritual Decline b. A Breakdown in the Entertainment Industry {730 words} c. A Breakdown in the Public Schools {298 words} d. A Message Not Being Told {231 words} e. When Did It All Begin? {869 words} Table 2. When The Decline Began f. The Decline Completed {439 words} g. Not Much Has Changed {293 words} CHAPTER 3. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION WITHIN OUR SYSTEM {209 words} a. A Well-Established System {173 words} b. Scientists and Educators Make No Pretense {245 words} c. Widening the Gap {457 words}PART II - UNDERSTANDING THE BOGUS CLAIMS OF SCIENCE CHAPTER 4. THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION {148 words} a. Warm Sunlit, Shallow Water {299 words} b. Mutation Theory And The Development of Different Species {359 words} c. A Theory Whose Time Has "NOT" Come {306 words} d. We Need Not Be Ashamed {256 words} FIGURE 2. THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION CANNOT BE PROVED e. Other Problems With Evolution {310 words} f. A Very Big Number {130 words} g. A Lack of Fossil Evidence {348 words} h. This Theory Belongs on the Shelf {191 words} Table 3. Problems with the Theory of Evolution i. Scientists Will Not Let Go Of This One {202 words} j. Massive Brainwashing {392 words} CHAPTER 5. THE BIG BANG THEORY - MORE BOGUS INSTRUCTION {241 words} a. What Is The Big Bang Theory? {382 words} b. How Reasonable Is The Big Bang? {300 words} c. More Corroborating Data {469 words} d. The Right Ratios {425 words} e. A Theory Which Seems To Be True {257 words} f. An Unproved Theory {431 words} CHAPTER 6. PROBLEMS WITH THE BIG BANG {404 words} Table 4. Problems With the Big Bang theory a. Superclusters and An Age That Do Not Fit {424 words} b. The Age Estimate Is Too Low {179 words} c. The Age Cannot Be Known For Certain {164 words} d. The Homogeneity Problem {287 words} e. A Very Special Kind of Matter {246 words} f. This Special Matter Is Called Dark Matter {189 words} g. The Benefit of Extra Matter {258 words} h. A Solution of Convenience {366 words} CHAPTER 7. THE ABSOLUTE ABSURDITY OF THEIR POSITION {339 words} a. A Two-Step Inflationary Expansion {213 words} b. A Solution of Convenience {507 words} c. A Betrayal By Scientists {149 words} d. The Work of Plasma Physicists and Others {169 words} e. Who Can Really Know? {364 words} f. Why Even Consider This Theory? {573 words} CHAPTER 8. HOW THIS SYSTEM FAILS US {214 words} a. Trained To Ignore The Spiritual {395 words} b. Teaching Half-Truths and Lies {438 words} c. Difficult For Individuals To Believe In God {306 words} d. Difficult For A Nation To Believe In God {242 words} Table 5. Society's Costs For Its Anti-God Instruction e. We Are A Nation Without God {537 words} f. Declining Moral Standards of a Whole Nation {162 words} g. Trying To Guess About Christianity {463 words} h. Young People Grow Up With The Wrong Values {356 words} i. A Call For Openness In Education {161 words}PART III - EXAMINING THE BETTER EVIDENCE CHAPTER 9. THE HISTORICAL SEARCH FOR GOD {365 words} a. The Need For A Credible Authority {262 words} b. Creation Took Place In Our Absence {167 words} c. What We Think About Judgment Means Little {317 words} d. The Endless Search For Truth {137 words} e. A Slant Towards Pantheism {131 words} f. A Dualistic Perspective {229 words} g. Cosmology Versus A Divine Creator {133 words} h. A Supernatural Beginning {257 words} i. A Hard-To-Believe Story {325 words} j. An Uncooperative System {149 words} k. Not Believing In God Is Easy {472 words} CHAPTER 10. THE RESPONSE OF THEOLOGIANS {237 words} a. The Cosmological Proof From Causality {300 words} b. The Scientific-Teleological Argument {287 words} c. The Ontological Argument {300 words} d. The Moral Law Argument {199 words} e. Proofs Which Do Not Satisfy {537 words} f. Still Trying To Show The Wrong Thing {208 words} g. We Need To KNOW That God Is Real {242 words} CHAPTER 11. KNOWING THAT GOD IS REAL {173 words} a. The Unproved Inflationary Model {253 words} b. Similar Problems With Evolution Theory {189 words} c. Trying To Prove God as Creator Is Futile {359 words} d. Seek To Show God's Current Relevancy {236 words} e. The Ontological Argument Revisited {184 words} f. Trying To Show That God Is Not Current {356 words} g. An Abuse of the Cosmological Argument {215 words} h. The Rationale for a Lazy Creator {369 words} i. Countering the "LAZY" Creator {259 words} j. Establishing Meaningful Criteria {401 words} Table 6. Showing God In A Current Setting CHAPTER 12. CRITERION ONE - THE SURVIVAL OF GOD'S THINGS {367 words} a. Satisfying The First Criterion {243 words} b. The Bible Compared To Evolution {173 words} c. The Bible Compared To The Big Bang Theory {164 words} d. The Survival of Pain and Evil {162 words} e. A Corollary To The First Criterion {175 words} f. Trying To Break Up The Church {459 words} CHAPTER 13. CRITERION TWO - THE SPIRITUAL VOID {228 words} a. Looking At My Own Life {212 words} b. A Void That Led To Mischief {246 words} c. Being On Life's Wrong Highway {131 words} d. Looking For Ways To Fill That Void {174 words} e. Identifying the Source of the Void {278 words} f. Satisfying the Void {247 words} g. Recognizing the Origin of the Source {315 words} CHAPTER 14. CRITERION THREE - THE VOID SATISFIED {209 words} a. Looking at the Early Church {132 words} b. A Church Under Condemnation {159 words} c. A Waive of Persecution {413 words} d. The Reality of Their Ordeal {224 words} e. A Couple of Lingering Questions {224 words} CHAPTER 15. CRITERION FOUR - A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST {175 words} a. Some Remarks By Mr. Hume {223 words} b. Mr. Hume Was Wrong! {127 words} c. Ours Is A Personal Testimony {247 words} d. A New Direction {216 words} e. The Holy Spirit Is My Proof! {187 words} f. Can Others Make These Same Claims {145 words} g. Making Everything Better {192 words} CHAPTER 16. THE "BEFORE" AND "AFTER" PROOFS {198 words} a. Considering the "AFTER" Proof {373 words} Table 7. The Four Points of the "AFTER" Proof b. Further Demonstration of the AFTER Proof {268 words} c. Considering the BEFORE Proof {348 words} d. God's Witnessing Program - People Telling People {202 words} Table 8. The Three Points of the "BEFORE" Proof e. Willing To Believe A Lie {348 words} f. God Proves Himself {259 words} g. He Reveals Himself To One's Heart {426 words} h. The Conclusion About God's Existence {147 words} CHAPTER 17. KNOWING THAT JESUS IS LORD {157 words} a. Establishing Criteria For Christ's Lordship {402 words} b. Jesus Was Able To Defeat Death {270 words} c. The Hope of the Resurrection {148 words} d. Other Out-Of-Body Death Experiences {119 words} e. Christ's Experience Was Totally Unique {362 words} Table 9. Uniqueness of Christ's Resurrection f. Knowing the Truth About the Resurrection {316 words} CHAPTER 18. WITNESSES TO THE HISTORIC EVENT {312 words} a. Two Eye Witnesses {83 words} b. On The Road To Emmaus {387 words} c. Many Other Encounters {327 words} d. A Problem With These Eyewitnesses {232 words} e. Looking to the Secular Historians {303 words} f. More Secular Evidence {176 words} g. Inadvertent Assent by Secular Historians {213 words} h. Little Opposition to the Resurrection {239 words} i. Accepted Resurrection Facts {63 words} Table 10. The Ten Widely Accepted Resurrection Facts j. Thorough Research Supports The Resurrection {446 words} CHAPTER 19. OBJECTIONS TO THE RESURRECTION {154 words} a. Explanation of the Swoon Theory {170 words} b. Explanation of the Hallucination Theory {178 words} c. Explanation of the Legend Theory {210 words} d. Explanation of the Stolen Body Theory {206 words} CHAPTER 20. RESPONSES TO THE CRITICS {145 words} Table 11. Four Theories Against A Literal Resurrection a. A Response to the Swoon Theory {95 words} Table 12. The Cruel Elements of Jesus' Harsh Treatment b. Jesus Was Brutally Tortured {294 words} c. Jesus Had To Overcome The Agony {257 words} d. Jesus On The Cross {440 words} e. The Swoon Theory Considered {239 words} f. A Response to the Hallucination Theory {114 words} g. A Response to the Legend Theory {169 words} h. A Response to the Stolen Body Theory {188 words} i. The Language of the Chief Priests {192 words} j. The Condition of the Tomb {160 words} k. A New, Deeper Apostolic Commitment {312 words} l. A Much More Logical Scenario {135 words} m. A Message That Will Not Be Stopped {178 words} n. Why Jesus' Lordship Is So Important {348 words} o. A Risen Saviour {517 words} CHAPTER 21. KNOWING THE BIBLE IS CORRECT AND ACCURATE {404 words} Table 13. The Four Steps For Proving God's Word CHAPTER 22. WHY A CANON? {220 words} a. The Spreading of an Unauthorized Version {194 words} b. Use of the Wrong Text {175 words} c. Unwilling To Die For A Phony {260 words} CHAPTER 23. THE CANON PROCESS {179 words} a. Trusting the Disciples {196 words} b. Accrediting Each Book {1,028 words} c. Accrediting The Difficult Books {797 words} d. An Interesting Exception {223 words} e. The Uniqueness of Christianity {176 words} f. A Faith That Is Real {315 words} CHAPTER 24. CONFIRMATION THROUGH ARCHAEOLOGY {144 words} a. Uncovering The Ebla Kingdom {271 words} b. Uncovering the Lachish Letters {270 words} c. Uncovering The Dead Sea Scrolls {208 words} d. The Value of the Scrolls {227 words} e. The Value of the Bible to Archaeology {202 words} f. The Irony of Science {545 words} CHAPTER 25. ELABORATE COPYING PROCEDURES {136 words} a. Many New Testament Fragments {142 words} b. The Dead Sea Scrolls {233 words} c. The Accuracy of the Scribes {198 words} d. A Job Well Done {432 words} CHAPTER 26. CAN EVERYONE BE AT LEAST A LITTLE RIGHT? {678 words} a. Establishing the Truth {264 words}PART IV - RESOLVING THE CREATION CONFLICT CHAPTER 27. LIST OF FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS {590 words} a. Keeping It Simple {179 words} b. Focusing In On The Most Logical Solution {218 words} c. Reviewing The Facts {183 words} d. Facts and Observations - System Around Us {213 words} e. Facts and Observations - The Theory of Evolution {170 words} f. Facts and Observations - The Big Bang Theory {521 words} g. Facts and Observations - System Impact {477 words} h. Facts and Observations - God's Existence {495 words} i. Facts and Observations - Jesus as Lord {288 words} j. Facts and Observations - God's Word {309 words} CHAPTER 28. SOME NEW INFORMATION {142 words} a. Getting to Know the Devil {103 words} b. A Very Worthy Adversary {230 words} c. Questions About The Devil {161 words} d. The Devil's History {463 words} e. The Day of Battle {129 words} f. The devil and Eve {421 words} g. Just A Foolish Fairy Tale {632 words} CHAPTER 29. THE SEVEN HEAD-TO-HEAD CONFRONTATIONS {521 words} Table 14. The Seven Head-to-Head Confrontations a. Understanding The Devil {308 words} b. Confrontation Number Three - Noah and the Flood {540 words} c. The devil’s Not-So-Secret Agenda {152 words} d. A Very Successful Adversary {473 words} e. Confrontation Number Four - The Tower of Babel {262 words} f. Why Build A Tower {151 words} g. The Never-ending Challenges of Satan {284 words} h. The People Were Without Excuse {232 words} i. Confrontation Number Five - Jesus at Calvary {371 words} j. Confrontation Number Six - the Antichrist Is Revealed {169 words} k. Confrontation Number Seven {138 words} CHAPTER 30. THE PROBLEM OF PAIN AND EVIL {245 words} a. One Who Is Motivated By Love {213 words} b. One Who Must Keep The Devil At Bay {299 words} c. Three of the Causes of Pain and Evil {363 words} Table 15. Three Causes of Pain and Evil CHAPTER 31. IN THE MIDST OF A CONSPIRACY {243 words} a. A Comment About the Analytical Approach {234 words} b. Looking At All The Data {251 words} CHAPTER 32. A SECOND LOOK AT THE BIG BANG THEORY {672 words} a. Propaganda In The Classroom {173 words} b. A Theory That Is On Very Shaky Ground {246 words} c. The COBE Explorer {799 words} d. The Absurdity of the Inflationary Model - Illustrated {638 words} e. Looking at ALL the Facts {158 words} CHAPTER 33. TRYING TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH {283 words} a. The Key to Understanding the Truth {241 words} b. The Smart Ones ??? {403 words} c. What God Really Did At Creation {373 words} d. What About A Big Bang? {263 words} e. Arguments of the Opposition {304 words} f. The Opposition Does Not Really Have Much of a Case {118 words} g. What About the Recession of the Galaxies {194 words} h. Understanding Facts 5A-1 and 5A-2 {497 words} i. Watching the Movement of the Stars {439 words} j. A Possible Scenario {474 words} k. The Ploy of the Devil {342 words} l. The Costs Borne By Society {199 words} CHAPTER 34. A SECOND LOOK AT THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION {132 words} a. What The Bible Says About Evolution {404 words} b. An Amazing Discovery {428 words} c. Simple Enough For A Fifth Grader {183 words}PART V - GIVING YOUR ALL TO THE LORD CHAPTER 35. UNDERSTANDING GOD'S MESSAGE TO HUMANITY {359 words} a. Being Constantly Aware of Our Adversary {488 words} b. Drawing Closer and Closer to the Lord {287 words} c. Having Access to the Truth {192 words} d. Step One - Seeing Yourself As Sinful and Undone {386 words} Table 16. Three Steps for Closing the Sin Gap With the Lord e. Step Two - Understanding the Penalty for Our Sins {156 words} f. Step Three - Coming to Jesus {517 words} g. Many Refuse God's Provision {235 words} CHAPTER 36. IMPORTANT CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES TO LIVE BY {188 words} Table 17. Three Steps for Right Christian Living a. Having the Right Attitude Toward God {418 words} b. The Simplicity of Our Heavenly Father {324 words} c. How Can We Really Please God? {237 words} d. Having the Right Attitude Toward Important Matters {393 words} e. Believing the Lies of the Devil {265 words} f. Being Able To Trust The Lord In All Things {282 words} g. Putting The Two Principles Together {283 words} h. Having The Right Attitude Concerning Stewardship {825 words} i. The Essence of New Testament Stewardship {471 words} j. The Conclusion of the Whole Matter {320 words} COPYRIGHTS PAGE {25 words} BIBLIOGRAPHY {747 words} APPENDIX A. SUMMARY OF THE FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS {254 words} a. Facts and Observations - The Theory of Evolution {170 words} b. Facts and Observations - The Big Bang Theory {521 words} c. Facts and Observations - System Impact {477 words} d. Facts and Observations - God's Existence {495 words} e. Facts and Observations - Jesus as Lord {288 words} f. Facts and Observations - God's Word {183 words} g. Facts and Observations - Some New Information {299 words}
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