Lecture #1
I Believe in God Because
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Without the Bible
You can
believe in a
Creator
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ROMANS 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even
his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse:
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Without The Bible
I Believe in God
Special thanks to Betty Jackson-Stockton
We Believe Because…
A study in Christian Evidences
For Children
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
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I Believe in God
Because of the Penguin
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I Believe in God
Because of Spiders
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I Believe in God
Because of Beavers
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I Believe in God
Because of the Termites
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I Believe in God
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Because of the Bomardier Beetle
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
What was “Winnie the Pooh’s” favorite food?
Honey
How did the honey get in the Jar?
How was the honey made?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Rule we will learn
“Everything must have a cause”
What caused the Honey?
Do you know where bees live?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
MEMORY VERSE:
Hebrews 3:4
For every house is built by some
man; but he that built all things is
God.
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Who Makes or Causes the bee’s hive?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Did it just happen without the Bees?
Bees are very special insects
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Why is a bee called an insect?
It has 3 sets of legs – it has 6 legs
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Where do bees get their food?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Flowers
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Where do we get oranges?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
 Orange Tree
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
What helped make the orange grow?
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Because of the Bees
 Bees
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Inside flower – soft powder called
Pollen
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Deep inside the flower
sweet juice called
Nectar
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
While the bee sucks up the Nectar
her hairy legs brush against the pollen
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
The pollen sticks to its legs
When the bee goes from flower to
flower it spreads the pollen
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Bees have built in straws in their mouth
When the bee puts the Nectar in it’s mouth
Guess what it makes?
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Because of the Bees
Honey
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
This honey feeds the other bees in the hive
Bees don’t eat all the honey they bring home
Guess what they do with the extra honey?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Store it in the honey comb
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Who made the honey comb?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Bees made the honey comb
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Who caused or made the honey?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Bees made the honey
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Do people make bees?
NO
Only God Does
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Remember our rule !
“Everything must have a cause”
What caused the honey?
BEES
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Remember our memory verse
“Every house is built by someone”
Who built the bee’s house?
BEES
Isn’t it wonderful that God made Bees
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
20 thousand different kinds of Bees
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Some special things about Bees
In the Old Testament God promised his
people “The promised land” and he said:
“The land would flow with milk and honey”
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Why was honey so special 3,500 years ago?
People back then did not have sugar
They used honey to make things sweet
Do you like honey on your toast?
I do !
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Another special thing about bees
How do bees keep warm in the winter?
Bees gather in a ball and eat the honey
They get energy from the honey
They flip and shake their wings
That makes heat and keeps them warm
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Because of the Bees
Another special thing about bees
How do Bees keep cool?
They pour water over the honey comb
They flip and shake their wings
The wind over the water makes it cool
That the same as our water coolers
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
How did the Bees learn to do that?
Did they go to school?
No
When God made the Bees he made
them with instinct
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
How do Bees tell the time of day?
Use their eyes to read the sun rays.
Isn’t that marvelous !!!
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Here is the funniest think Bees do!!
How does a Bee tell the other Bees
where he found a whole lot of Nectar?
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Because of the Bees
Do they call them on the Phone?
Maybe they send them a letter!
Maybe they send them an e-mail
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Because of the Bees
Bees do a dance
In front on the hive they run round
and round in a circle
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Because of the Bees
They stop and run across the circle
That’s the direction of the flowers
with nectar
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Because of the Bees
But how far away is the flower?
When the Bee crosses the circle he
goes up at an angle
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Because of the Bees
Somehow that tells the other Bees
how far away the flowers are
Isn’t that just amazing?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
How did they learn to do that dance?
Did they go to school?
Did they read it in a book?
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Because of the Bees
NO
God just made Bees to do that
That’s called “Instinct”
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
Bees outsmart Scientists
Research at Princeton University
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
What’s our rule?
“Everything must have a cause”
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I Believe in God
Because of the Bees
What’s our memory verse?
Hebrews 3:4
For every house is built by some
man; but he that built all things is
God.
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
Because of the Birds
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
Who makes bird nests?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
Birds
Who made the bird?
God
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
Why do birds fly south for the Winter?
How do they know the directions?
God made them with instinct
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
Why do birds fly in a “V” shape?
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Because of the Birds
What about the Woodpecker?
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
How does it hold on to the trunk of
the tree?
How does it pound on a tree with it’s
beak and never gets a headache?
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Because of the Birds
I has two toes forward and two toes
backward
Their tail feathers are short and stiff
The Woodpecker has two amazing
features other birds do not have
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
Behind its bill is a pad of sponge
The sponge acts as a shock
absorber
Did that just happen by evolution?
Some spotted woodpeckers have
made holes in concrete poles
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
The second amazing features of the
Woodpecker
When it drills holes in the tree it
uses it’s long tongue to reach down
the hole to find the insects
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Because of the Birds
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I Believe in God
Because of the Birds
It’s tongue is longer than it’s body
It’s tongue circles around inside it’s
head
Did all this just happen?
Who made the Woodpecker?
God
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I Believe in God
Because of Penguins
The amazing emperor Penguin
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I Believe in God
Because of Penguins
It’s breeding pattern is simply
amazing
They spend the summer at sea
feeding
In March they walk as far as nine
miles to their breeding grounds
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I Believe in God
Because of Penguins
The female lays one large egg
She lays the egg on the ice
There is no material for a nest
She puts the egg onto her feet
She covers the egg with her skin
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I Believe in God
Because of Penguins
The male Penguin takes the egg
He puts the eggs on his feet and
covers it with his skin
The female leaves and goes to sea
for two months to get food
The male Penguin just stands there
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Because of Penguins
Just when the egg hatches the
female returns
Out of hundreds of thousands of
male Penguins the female picks out
the right male
If she is only a day or so late the
baby will die
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Because of Penguins
The male is free to hurry to the sea
He gorges in the sea for two weeks
He must return at the right time
Out of hundreds of thousands of
Penguins he is able to pick the right
baby
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I Believe in God
Because of Penguins
For the rest of the winter the parents
take turns going to sea for food
If they are late just a day or so the
baby will die
Did evolution make these Penguins
do what they do for their babies?
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Because of Penguins
Look at some amazing pictures of
Penguins
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Because of the Bees
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Because of the Birds
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I Believe in God
Next Study Because of the Penguin
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I Believe in God
Next Lesson
Because of Spiders
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I Believe in God
Because of Beavers
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I Believe in God
Because of the Termites
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I Believe in God

Because of the Bomardier Beetle
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Without the Bible
You can
believe in a
Creator
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ROMANS 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even
his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse:
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