Why Religion Can’t

Reconcile God and Man

Creator God

VISIBLE INVISIBLEUniverse with earth chosen

as the place for life

Broken Earth

Will be destroyed and replaced

Human on earth chosenas place for spiritual life

“image of God”

Broken Image

Created new by Christfor now and eternity

The “Invisible”• Revealed through Creation’s design, complexity and beauty• Re!ected in the Broken Image of God in human beings• Evidenced in the universality of “religion”

Humans have tried to...• Outlaw religion• Privatize religion

• Deny religion• Criticize religion

“Best selling books by the likes of Dawkins and Hitchens notwithstanding, Canadians remain remarkably pro-God and pro-organized religion... Even among people w ho have readi ly been ass igned (atheistic) labels there appears to be considerable latent religious life.”

- Dr. Reginald Bibby leading reseracher and author about religion in Canada

3 present dayviews of religions

“It doesn’t matter what religion you follow – they all lead to the same

destination”

U N I V E R S A L I S M

3 present dayviews of religions

“All religions have good and bad – 

so just take the best of all religions”

S Y N C R E T I S M

3 present dayviews of religions

“Religions are the cause of many of the world’s problems – 

so all religion should be rejected”

N E W A T H E I S M

Religion is evidence of our broken image

Jesus is God coming to us providing grace so we can be

spiritually recreated

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the

Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.”

- John 3:36

“He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God

does not have life.” - 1 John 5:12

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we

must be saved.” - Acts 4:12

“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.”

- Acts 17:23

Jesus is God• Religious founders say, “I will show you the way to #nd God”• Jesus says, “I am God and I came to #nd you”

who came to restore us to Himself

Jesus did for uswhat religion is helpless to do

Jesus is returningfor His followers

who will join Him in eternal life