BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE ASIA

PROFESSOR: Ptr. Arnel C. Bagunas

SUBJECT:

THEOLOGY PROPER
(Study about GOD)
OBJECTIVES:
By the end of this session you
should be able to…….

1. Understand theology better and

be familiar about how to do
theology.
2. Appreciate the importance of
theology to the Christian faith.
3. Resolve to study theology
diligently without falling into the
Lesson – 2: THEOLOGY
PROPER

A. The Existence of GOD

B. The Nature of GOD
C. The Trinity of GOD
D. The Attributes of GOD
INTRODUCTIO
N:
• We are constantly challenged by atheist,
skeptics and hecklers to prove that there
is a God.
• It is difficult for natural man to believe in
something that he cannot see, touch or
feel. (1 Cor. 2:14)
• The problem for the Christian is solved
with the first verse of the Bible, “In the
beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.” (Gen. 1:1)
INTRODUCTIO
N:
• It did not occur to any other writer of
the Bible to prove this fact.
• The Bible plainly states that it is the
fool who denies the existence of God.
• Psa. 14:1 “The fool hath said in his
heart, there is no God.”
• Anyone with any intelligence would
acknowledge the evident fact of a
living God.
INTRODUCTIO
N:
• The greatest proof apart from Scripture
of the existence of God is our daily
fellowship with Him in prayer.

• I know that there is a God because I

talked to Him today and He heard and
answered the prayer of my heart,
though it was only whispered silently.
I. PROOF FROM
SCRIPTURE
Psa. 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of
God; the skies proclaim the work of his
hands.

• The beauty and glory of the heaven

speak loudly saying, “God exists”
I. PROOF FROM
SCRIPTURE
Rom. 1:20 For since the creation of the
world God's invisible qualities--his eternal
power and divine nature--have been
clearly seen, being understood from what
has been made, so that men are without
excuse.

• Goes further and suggest that creation

even teaches about the eternal power of
the Godhead
I. PROOF FROM
SCRIPTURE
• The man who accepts Scripture will
readily acknowledge the existence of
God.

• Let us study some other less convincing

but nevertheless powerful arguments.
II. PROOF FROM
CONSCIENCE
Man is born with a universal belief in a
Supreme Being; no tribe has yet been
discovered that lacks this. They know that
some Being creates and controls.
Rom. 1:20 since they show that the
requirements of the law are written on
their hearts, their consciences also
bearing witness, and their thoughts now
accusing, now even defending them.
• The existence of God is written in the
human conscience.
II. PROOF FROM
CONSCIENCE
Acts 17:23 For as I walked around and
looked carefully at your objects of
worship, I even found an altar with this
inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now
what you worship as something unknown
I am going to proclaim to you.
• Conscience told them that there was a
God though they did not know Him
personally.
• Some atheists may claim that their
conscience does not tell them about
God. It is doubtful if a genuine atheist
can be found for at best they are men
who have stilled conscience by blatant
unbelief.

• Some men are so blind that they may

deny the existence of the sun in the sky
but that does not alter the fact that the
sun exists, rises and sets each day.
• None are so blind as those who refused
to see. The honest man will find that
the inner still small voice says that God
exists and is alive today.

• Men deny the existence of God, not

because they cannot find Him but
because they are afraid to face the
responsibility of being accountable to
Him after death.
• Atheism is one of the devil’s tools to put
men to sleep without accepting
salvation

• If there is no God then I am not

responsible to anyone and I can live
and die as I please. But in the quieter
moments of reflection the conscience of
every man whispers, “There is a God”
and only fools deny it.
• To look up and see a plane and not see
the pilot and say that the plane is
pilotless is as ridiculous as looking into
the heavens and saying that there is no
God simply because we cannot see
Him.

• Few of us have ever seen our brains,

yet we believe that we possess them
because of a centralized control system
in the body. Because we see creation,
we believe in God.
 III. THE ARGUMENT FROM
CAUSE (Cosmological)

• The world is here. It must have come

from somewhere. Somebody or
something must have caused it to come
into being at one time or another.

• Here is a book. Someone must have

written it. No printing press can of itself
produce a book, be it ever so modern a
press with the latest electrical gadgets.
 III. THE ARGUMENT FROM
CAUSE (Cosmological)

• Someone built the building. Someone

created the trees. Someone operates
the universe.

• If all the pieces of a watch were placed

in a can and the can shaken gently for
1 million years the watch would not be
“accidentally” put together and
running.
 III. THE ARGUMENT FROM
CAUSE (Cosmological)

• The only sensible answer to the

problem of the existence of the world is
the existence of an intelligent Being
whom we call God.
 IV. THE ARGUMENT FROM
DESIGN (Teleological)

• A watch not only exists but it has a

designer. It was planned for a specific
purpose.

• A watch was not designed for

mosquitoes to live in. It was designed
by a keen mind for the purpose of
accurately telling the time.
 IV. THE ARGUMENT FROM
DESIGN (Teleological)

• An examination of the world and the

things large and small shows that each
is designed by an intelligent mind for a
specific purpose in life.

• The colors of the bird and means of

defense of the animals are not
accidents. They are the result of a plan
of a superior planning mine of the
 V. THE MORAL ARGUMENT
(Anthropological)

• Man has an intellectual and moral

nature showing that the Creator must
not be merely an inanimate force by a
living, intelligent moral Being,
Gen. 1:26 “Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness.”
Gen. 1:27 God created man in the image
and likeness of God, that is, patterned
V. THE MORAL ARGUMENT
(Anthropological)
Psa. 94:9 Does he who implanted the ear
not hear? Does he who formed the eye not
see.

• God has given to man ears, eyes,

knowledge, intelligence, and will power
for these are the things that He
possesses.
• Conscience teaches man right and
VI. THE LIFE ARGUMENT
• Life comes from life and the original life
must have come from a Being
possessing eternal life, that is, life that
existed before physical life was created.

• Where can such life be found? It can

only be found in God who possesses
eternal life.
VI. THE LIFE ARGUMENT
Psa. 36:9 For with you is the fountain of
life; in your light we see light.

• The apple tree gets its life from the

parent tree, the lamb from the mother
sheep.

• But where did they get life from? We go

back to the original creation.
VI. THE LIFE ARGUMENT
Jesus said in John 11:25 “I am… life,” also
in John 14:6 “I am… life,” and in John
10:28 “And I give unto them eternal life.”

• All life proceeds from God. The theory of

spontaneous generation has been
proved false and completely
unacceptable to authoritative science.
• Life must have a beginning. The only
logical answer is that beginning was
VII.THE ARGUMENT FROM
CONGRUITY
• The theory of atheism solves no
problems but only multiplies unsolved
mysteries.
• The acceptance of the existence of God
as Creator of the world is like a magic
key that fits all the facts of Scripture,
revelation, knowledge and science.
• This irrefutable doctrine is held
tenaciously by multitudes of souls who
are willing both to live and die in the
CONCLUSION:

• Atheism which is only giant doubt and

unbelief can only lead to darkness and
despair for the one accepting it.

• Acceptance of Gen. 1:1 “In the

beginning God,” leads the sincere
seeker into the path of a fuller
revelation of God Himself.
CONCLUSION:

Heb. 11:6 “He that cometh to God must

believe that He is [exists].”

• Let us come as children in simple faith,

based on the revelation of God in
Scripture and nature, believing and
trusting Him completely.
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Leaders for the 21st
Century!