How Well Do You Know Your Stampede Facts?
1. The Calgary Stampede was first held in what year?
2. How big is the purse for the Stampede rodeo?
3. How many people attend the 10-day event each year?
4. How many mini-donuts are sold each year?
5. How many pancakes are served at Stampede each year?
Questions You Don’t Want to Get Wrong
It’s fun to answer trivia questions. Whether you’re right or wrong about a certain piece of trivia doesn’t amount to much in light of what’s most important in life. However, there are questions about us and our world that we must answer correctly. Are you willing to take the challenge of thinking through some important questions?
6. Does every human being have inherent dignity, value, and worth?
7. Are beauty, love, and joy objectively real?
8. Is there something wrong with our world?
9. Is there also something wrong with yourself?
If you’ve answered truthfully and without contradiction, you have answered “Yes” to each question. In affirming these statements as true you have also denied the typical evolutionary worldview espoused by so many today. Dignity is not inherent if we are simply evolved animals surviving natural selection. Beauty, love and joy are not real but are simply chemical reactions in the brain. And, in an evolutionary worldview judgments of “right” and “wrong,” “good” and “evil” make no sense. We should expect death and suffering as normal and natural in an evolutionary world. In affirming “Yes” to these questions, you’ve denied evolutionary theory and in fact have affirmed the one true God who has revealed himself in the Bible.
More Questions
Try these next questions and see how you do.
10. Was Jesus a real person who died on a cross in the first century?
11. Was Jesus’ tomb found empty three days later?
12. Did over 500 people see Jesus after he rose from the dead?
13. Did all his followers die affirming his physical resurrection?
The answer to all these question is “Yes!” Christian, Roman, and Jewish sources from the time period acknowledge Jesus’ life and death on a cross and an empty tomb three days later. There is no way all Jesus’ followers would be killed to propagate a lie that would not advantage them in any way.
Getting the first five questions on this card wrong is no big deal, but you can’t afford to get the questions about Jesus wrong. He died and rose historically so that what is wrong with the world and with ourselves can be made right. He died as a substitute, the innocent for the guilty so that we can be forgiven. Do not die in your sin. Seek truth, seek Jesus Christ, the one and only way we can be reconciled to God. Only by being a follower of Jesus can we share in a resurrection like his and have victory over the unnatural curse of death.
Answers: 1) 1912. 2) $2 million+. 3) 1 million+. 4) 2 million+. 5) 200,000+. 6) Yes. 7) Yes. 8) Yes. We see suffering and death. 9) Yes. No one is perfect.
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