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Our R elationship with God in 2018: E str anged or Intimate?

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God’s Omniscience Revealed

“Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him . . . said of him ‘Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!’ [says what is on his mind!] Nathaniel said to Him, ‘How do you know me?’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Before Phillip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.’ ” (John 1:47–48) “You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thoughts. . . . You formed my inward

• parts. . . . When I was made in secret . . . your eyes saw

my substance being yet unformed. And in Your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them.” (Ps 139:2, 13–16)

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God Knows All That is & All the “What Ifs”

“Present your case, says the LORD . . . Show the former things, what they were . . . and know the latter end of

• them. . . . show the things that are to come that we may

know you are gods. . . .” (Isa 41:21–23) “Woe to you, Chorazin! . . . Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes . . . it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than you.” (Matt 11:21–22)

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Limits of Empirical Knowledge

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BU T the sc ie ntific me tho d re quire s spe c ial additio ns (wo rldvie w de pe nde nt c o njec tures) in o rder to pe ne trate uno bse rvable past & future do mains Man c re ate d to have do minio n

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The Only Source of a Justifiable Plan

• f Historical Progression: The Bible!

CREATOR & REDEEMER

Contract #1

“Only the Hebrews, so far as we know, made covenants with their gods or God.”

~W.F. Albright, Yahweh and the

Gods of Canaan.

Consistent contract stipulations throughout time

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“Nevertheless My lovingkindnesses I will not utterly take from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail. My contract I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of my

• lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness, I will not lie to

David.” (Ps 89:33–35)

God’s Immutability – Source of His Faithfulness

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