Objection
About This Series
Many people today dismiss the claims of Christianity outright because they believe the objections against it are self-evident and obviously unanswerable. The truth is that these objections are culturally conditioned rather than rigorously substantiated. Why not examine the objections objectively? What do you have to lose?
SERMONS IN THIS SERIES
The Problem of Pain
Part 1 of Objection
BY Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- 1. What is the problem of pain which atheists claim is a powerful argument against the existence of God? Explain in your own words how the problem of pain actually discloses rather than disproves the existence of God.
- 2. Are you or someone close to you experiencing suffering and pain which God does not relieve in spite of your fervent prayers? How does it make you feel about God? What does the bible have to say about this?
- 3. What is the hope that the bible holds out to believers who are suffering? How can we be certain of such hope? Do you have it?
September 10, 2017
The Problem of Science
Part 2 of Objection
BY Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- 1. Why is it important to be able to reconcile the supposed discrepancy between science and religion? What can you do to become more proficient in doing so?
- 2. Why is science not in a position to explain everything about the universe and life? What in your personal experience do you find incompatible with atheistic naturalism?
- 3. To what extent do you live your life as a practical atheist (as if this life has no greater purpose, and there is nothing beyond it?)
September 17, 2017
The Problem of Hell
Part 3 of Objection
BY Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- 1. How do you personally feel about the bible’s teaching on hell? What is the fundamental reason why people go to hell?
- 2. Why is it absurd to think that God is using hell to scare people into being good? How then can the knowledge of hell change our hardened hearts?
- 3. What are you doing to share the good news with those around you, so that they may avoid the horrors of hell?
September 24, 2017
The Problem of Evolution
Part 4 of Objection
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- 1. How should Christians respond to scientific theories which challenge our understanding of the bible?
- 2. What is your view of Neo-Darwinism and how it relates to the bible? What is the basis of your opinion?
- 3. What are the implications of atheistic naturalism for the meaning of reality and life? How should we respond to people who say that what we perceive to be true, (e.g. morality, free will or beauty) have no objective reality, but are merely the outcome of evolution (inherited adaptations that enabled our species to be positively selected by nature)?