Genesis Youth Group 9-28-08

Is God There?

With all this injustice why has God not stepped in and stopped it?

What is your response?

In Christianity who has dealt with injustice? How?

Jesus, Cross, injustice main theme throughout OT too! Widows, orphans, strangers. Early Christianity sick outcast downtrodden. Ray’s sermon this morning was all about how you can help with injustice!!

LOGIC TIME

“If God does not exist, then justice does not exist (we said justice is something that has been given to all of us and we all expect everyone else to display some type of justice)” “Without God we have no ultimate standard maker—We have no straight to measure the crooked. Crooked only makes sense when it’s compared to straight.”

“when someone says God cannot exist because God isn’t as just as she’d like him to be, she’s using justice to say the Giver of justice is unjust.”

Question for a doubter: “Where did you get that idea of justice, and why do you expect everyone else to understand it?”

Many things in our world break down with out justice our very way we live life with oaths, covenants, laws etc. all have to do with justice which comes from God

“if God is not allowed into promises, covenants, and oaths—if God is not permitted to be an explanation for justice—then we would have no reason to suppress evil in our world. Who decides what is evil or good? It becomes a fight for power without any ultimate standard.

Next Time: thinking about our Purpose in life and how that points to the existence of God!