The Story of Reality - Greg Koukl 

Greg’s illustrative teaching is so so good.

Love Greg's teaching.

Thank you, and God bless!!

This book was recommended to me by a pastor to talk to my son who happens to be an extremely intelligent new engineer and who knows God is there but has a problem with Jesus because of all the false religious out there. This video is very boring to me so I hope the book is better

God is reality?

Time and space is created at the moment of creation itself...creation itself is outside of God so God was eternally with Himself until the moment when He decided to create...in the christian God the Triune God is with Himself and Happy and complete...the logos of God is already with God from the beginning of God Himself...the Holy Spirit is already with God...and the Father who is God is already within the Godhead...until the moment that they decide for whatever reason to initiate the act of creation itself and the big bang the beginning of the universe and with this action time and space come into existence ..prior to this there is no time ....there is only the eternity of the I Am ...the everlasting of everlasting ...the eternal....Listen carefully....the perfect triune God was perfectly pleased with Himself...He needed nothing...He had everything already and was Holy and filled with perfect love...filled with perfect Love because the trinity has 3 distinct persons within the one being of the Godhead and each of these individual persons loves the others completely ...this God is capable of perfect love since perfect love can only exist where two or more free individual souls chose to love each other without restriction and unconditionally....a unitary God like Allah is incapable of perfect love...allah would have to create someone who could love him back in order to have the attribute of perfect love...so allah is deficient and a false God....The trinity does not have this problem....Now God chose to create at some moment in his eternal existence he decides to create the creation we are currently within...the big bang...the sun earth solar system and Humans in His own image....He also creates paradise and the angels prior to creating Humans and the universe....and these heavenly beings had free will.....and they rebelled against God....and brought sin into the world through Adam and Eve....the important thing to remember here is that this holy and perfect God creates...and when he creates whatever is created...is less than Him...this is a crucial point...God decides to create (for whatever reason) and when He does the creation is in and of itself less than Him...and therefore open to the possibility of inequity and sin....All things in creation fall short of the Glory of God...angels....humans...all things....so from the very beginning of creation and before the initial act of creation by God He knew that at some point He and He alone would have to come into His creation in order to redeem it back to Himself...why...because sin would come as a natural consequence of free will and He knew this...but....He creates anyway...so He creates even knowing that the possibility of evil and sin would enter the creation...why...because being a created thing it is less that God and therefore open to the possibility of sin and evil....So while God is creating heaven and the universe the Word already knows ahead of time that He would be entering His creation at some point in Historical Time as a Human in order to redeem the entire creation back to Himself....Jesus knew this prior to the creation...and He and the Father and the Holy Spirit create anyway....there is a very special place for us in the mind of God ...angels and humans are very special and sanctified creatures to God....so much so that He sent His only son not to condemn the world but to save it...... sites.google.com/view/godanddemocrarcy/home Now this Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Corinthians 3 17

But don't people with delusional beliefs also think their beliefs are reality?

Mr Koukl, you are a Calvinist. A Calvinist believes God has already chosen who is saved, and who is lost - before time began. It makes no sense for you, or any Calvinist, to share the gospel. The fate of everyone is already a done deal. The saved will remain saved, and the lost will remain lost, no matter if a single person ever shares the gospel or not.

Why must we overuse 'absolutely'? It has become meaningless. 'So pleased' is fine; 'absolutely' as the only emphatic you use makes you sound like a freshman with an elementary school vocabulary.