Hardest question we have to face | John Lennox at SMU 

I can listen to John Lennox talk all daylong. What a treasure.

Sitting here trying to prepare myself everyday for a phone call that my sick twenty five year old Daughter is gone; my only comfort right now is the cross. My saviors resurrection ensures me that no matter what happens, ill will see her again in paradise. GOD bless you Dr. Lennox. Please pray for my Daughter.

Honestly, this guy is one of the few apologists who I believe is truly saved.. With many others you see pride, absent from love for Christ. You see arguments, yet no thought or heart for Christ. He points to Christ, and not his opinion or argument. I usually don't like apologists, because of the pride you see coming from them, the way they look down on people who's eyes have not been opened, yet with him you can see he understands that it is only by grace that his eyes have been opened. I also loved how he didn't say that he believes in Christ because of great reasoning, arguments or scholastic evidences but because of the actual human evidence; the power of change that salvation brings. As Paul said, I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God unto salvation... it truly is powerful and not some dead believe that leaves you unchanged.

This is the video that changed my mind completely I am catholic but I had questions and I was skeptic, Mr John Lenox you are a truly man of God for doing what you do, God bless you Sir, I have now restablished my faith ! God it’s incredible, he revealed to me ! I was in complete tears feeling something inexplicable ❤ it was God

It's my prayer that God will keep this man much longer in Christ Jesus name 🙏

How I love this man! An incredible mind and a beautiful heart. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us, Prof Lennox ❤🇿🇦

The people I see struggling the hardest with these questions are the ones who have never heard what True Christianity says, but they've listened to what this denomination or that denomination says ABOUT what the Bible says. That's like hearing an ignorant neighbor talking about another neighbor and buying into it, instead of going and meeting that neighbor for yourself, and forming your own opinion. Start with the book of John. (The Bible is not chronologic to be read as a novel.) It's YOUR soul at stake, don't let anyone else have the final Word, but God!

Just brilliant! Oh to be as eloquent and knowledgeable as John Lennox. What a gift God has given him. Christ centred and so powerful.

I had the high honor of sharing a week long conference with Dr. John. Each of us spoke twice per day. I felt so utterly small; but he was so very gracious, kind, and encouraging. His passion is as prodigious as is his vast intellect. He’s genuinely humble and kind. A treasure to the church.

He’s right. I’m one of those addicts that discovered Christ who transformed me and rescued me from the domain of darkness!

I knew Jesus Christ in my suffering. Not in church, not in family, not in friends, not in school, not while I was peaceful, not while I was happy, but during the darkest struggles of my life. There He was, and the cross. Only then I realized, how in my suffering, compared to Jesus Christ on the cross, Im way too comfortable.

"there is no rational justification for morality without God; and there is no rational justification for science without God"🙏

He is such an unbelievably intellectual apologist. God bless him.

John Lenox is one of the only insanely brilliant people who can make the complex so understandable!!

Praise the Lord for John Lennox

John Lennox has been gifted by God with authentic persuasiveness. May God bless him and his family in his autumnal years.

Suffering is like the rain, it falls on the just and unjust. God could minutely control it where it only falls on the unjust. But then the liberty He grants to humanity, would be sorely curtailed. We are free to err, but also free to win. Still in this journey called life we often make mistakes, often are in the wrong place, or just have a scale that must be balanced. And only God knows ALL the answers. This I believe, without God I would be LOST. Thankfully, I have Christ who leads me. Thank You Lord. Godspeed pilgrims.

Amen from Cape Town South Africa SDA ❤

God gave us Free Will. A dangerous thing to do. But we have this great power.

John Lennox, excellent explanations all the time, genius man of God😇🙌♥️👌

Wonderful!! Such wisdom. Praise GOD!!

Amen! Saved January 6th, 1972. Kept by the power of God.

the man with communication major, love the way his vocabulary paints understanding.

Jesus was in the fiery furnace with the 3 in Daniel. He is with us through all our victories and troubles of we will just turn to seek Him.

Love Lennox! Great man of God.

I am 93 y/o and am so pleased to hear such a highly respected Scientist to expound the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a world of all sorts and ages as even great Evangelists and Preachers of today have missed b/c Dr. Lennox has emphasized the evidence aka the TRUTH.

Love this man, a man from my wee part of the world Northern Ireland, truly a Godly man.

Amen John Lennox, you put it in a nutshell when you said "it has to do with Christ..." in that short and simple sentence lies the answer to all things. God bless you, keep up your wonderful work.

I don't miss that John Lennox position of Dr., Math Prof. at Oxford and mainly as Christian and his message that he is not "looked down on" by his equals to be, unusually, so well-versed with proof and facts. His respect provides him with listening by them ! I hope they respond.

Thank you !

I love John Lennox. Such a great teacher.

Beautiful.

YES GOD GIVES YOU THE ANSWER

Superbly engaging and illuminating ...he has a gift and its wonderful to him using it to encourage others

The reason they wonder about suffering is because they want what they want and they want it now, instead of accepting God's Truth. Jesus said, "daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but for yourselves and your children". He warned us of evil things coming down the road, but people want God to just fix everything now. He can fix everything now, but that would mean destroying everything now.

Awesome

“God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,…” 2 Corinthians 5:19

Amen.

Amen!

hallelujah .....

Amen! Jesus changed my life! I am a new creation! Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus for this lovely brother John Lennox. 🎉❤ It's all Christ! Our lovely Messiah YESHUA!

I love to hear this man speak! Indeed God took suffering upon himself and made it very close to us and very real. Also, suffering is our fault. We disobeyed God and this all suffering and all death are due to our actions.

Wow! What an apt submission! And no doubts, it is well articulated too. Refreshingly liberating! In summary, it answers to a very large extent the questions bothering our minds on the authenticity of Christianity. Well said Sir!

This is how alcoholics overcome alcoholism. By trusting in a higher power. God. The only catch is you've got to pass it on to someone else. Helping others stay sober helps yourself stay sober. Once the ball begins rolling, your whole life is transformed from the inside out. By gods grace.

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Amen

John is very good at making up unconvincing answers, for which he knows he does not have to make any testable assertions since it is all magic. Fact is humanity survived tens of thousands of years without any of the current major religions and will continue to survive when they are long forgotten. As for the most difficult questions, there are many more difficult questions in each of the sciences. Like, how to reconcile gravity with QED, complete the standard model, and scientific explanation for consciousness. Not holding my breath, waiting for any of the thousands of gods to provide an answer.

Gbu Dr

When we look at what God is growing here, suffering and evil make more sense, don’t they? Isn’t God growing our faith and love? Do suffering and evil help or hinder the development of our faith and love? And doesn’t John answer it beautifully?

Amen! Thank you!

Thank you.

Very clear the word of God as in Acts 28:27- turn and I would heal them, anyone who doesn't come to God and surrender his life to Jesus Christ , he judge himself already, Why ? As says in Hebrew 4:6-8. To God be the Glory,

human decency doesn’t come from religion, it precedes it.

If in this life only we are most to be pitied.... Stephen John Baptist or Abel....

God sent as we all are. Thank you for your time and effort John to find the space to say your peace. 🙏 God bless in Jesus name.

When I accepted Christ into my life something happened within myself. Living by the 2 most important commandments of the Law of Moses that Christ emphasized is not easy. I have failed many times. Once I released the notion that God was not a Santa Claus or a genie in a bottle entity that provided my heart's desires I was able to experience God.

Wish I know him in person and that he's my mentor... Oh well...

I would love John Lennox to discuss Christ with Thomas Sowell😉🥰

God can draw straight with crooked lines. He uses secondary causes to move us to the place we were always meant to be - with Him. What is confusing is why the fall happened in the first place. Can't get my head around two people who walked arm and arm with God every day would disobey and turn their back on Him

Their you find reality.

Yes ,me

John is a beautiful and eloquent brother in Christ.

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating"☺️ Amen!

John Lennox is just great plain and simple

@The city of the King, Paslms 122:6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they will prosper that love you. God bless!!!

Designed suffering will always be a tremendous problem for theism

I would be really interested to know how a discussion with Sam Harris and John Lennox would go.....

Why did no one write anything about Matthew 27 51 to 53? Think about it. It should be the greatest event in world history

The hardest question we have to face is how to pay the next electricity bill!!

You can be a person of deep personal Faith but not what anyone would call 'religious'. I have followed the Guidelines of Problacism for many years and consequently I have been given everything I could possibly ever need or want. I also don't suffer from any anxieties, fears or depression. Problacism does not require any prayer, churches, iconoclasm or worship. All it requires is that you lose all your ego and indiscriminately help everyone who is 'sent' to you without any expectation of recognition or reward. Trust in the Universe and be Relentless.

Your God spirit can only patiently forbear while we fight the battle of life as it is lived on our planet; but we could, if we only would - as we work and worry, as we fight and toil - permit the God spirit to fight with us and for us. We could be so comforted and inspired, so enthralled and intrigued, if we would only allow the spirit constantly to bring forth the pictures of the real motive, the final aim, and the eternal purpose of all this difficult, uphill struggle with the common place problems of our present material world.

John Lennox is in Jesus❤️👍 He has wisdom based on Living Lord Almighty God, Jesus Christ 💕

Lennox is a Gangsta !

Please share with other people my two brief videos. Thank you!

Ya dreamin John

Love this

the question is only hard if we are so self righteous as to think that in our goodness we never deserved any suffering at all our ancestors were NEVER troubled by this question so why does HE find the question hard???

There is hope when you feel hopeless, but where is the help when you feel helpless? What does one do when you continuously pray to God to show you the way and ask for help, but it doesn't come?

Atheists are fond of pointing out various shortcomings in the Bible, which, if one is minded to think that the Bible is inerrant, those shortcomings become significant as they demonstrate the opposite. But I have yet to see an atheist video on the shortcomings of Jesus' teachings. They all dodge the central questions of the Water of Life (the Spirit of Truth) and the Bread of Life (his outstanding teachings), and whether or not it is rational to become more perfect.

Death and suffering was not God’s original plan; it was only after man sinned that decay came into the world, and death is a part of that. God is STILL the answer to pain and suffering as well as evil. This is why we pray…. 😎✝️

What’s the date of this talk?

Why are we created? What is the reason we are here? Why did God put us here now?

Did Ravi and RZIM had to struggle with these questions?

First off, the "question of suffering" is NOT the hardest question we have to face. But, the question of suffering IS directly related and a result of the actual "hardest question". what is it? i will explain: In Genesis, when Adam and Eve rebelled against God and ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad, they were not merely eating from a random tree. it had a title. Titles are given to things of importance or significance. That Tree represented God's authority over mankind. In eating, they stated that THEY would decide right and wrong themselves. notice that i said "would". not "could". we were never given that ability to rule one another successfully. our problems of wars, violence, injustice, hunger, disease, death, etc. all prove that we cannot. Adam and Eve's rebellion led, eventually, to mankind's earthwide governments. therefore, the hardest question we have to ask ourselves is, "will i show myself a rebel also and choose to support Satan's system? will i show support by voting, joining the military, getting involved in politics, etc?" OR "will i follow the bible and trust that God will sanctify His name in the future?" that automatically answers your question of why there is suffering in the world.

Adam and Eve brought pain into the picture - meaning Man - not God. We are the sinners - the gluttons, the avaricious, the Proud, the vain, the lascivious, the wrongdoers, the thieves, the sick minded… not God. It is not whether we believe in Him that matters- It is surprising that He still believes in us. But He does - and the right ones of us will always try out utmost to TRY to be there for Him in perfect symmetry to the degree to which He’s there for us… We raise our lives to the love of Him.

Bonding through suffering is wrong. Justice, judgement, punishment don't work.

Suffering has nothing to do with the majority of atheistic conversions. It’s merely the lack of belief in the unbelievable

John Lennox, an inspirational speaker, of the faith in God 🙏🏾

Jesus is my Lord and my God. He makes most sense than anything tangible and visible.

It's very difficult to believe that a person created the universe. But I can't think of any other possibilities. So it must be true.

Just study what this man says

The problem of evil is indeed a serious challenge to theism, however, as John lennox makes clear, it is, in many ways, a greater problem for atheism. The question points to morality and is not why such and such is evil but why is it evil? Without recourse to supernatural answer, athesim needs to be able to provide a mdoel for morality that does not reduce to fallacious appeals to force or number. Nothing is true simply because of how many people believe it. Also, to the atheist who believes it is up to the individual, it is worth noting that even the value of 1 is a number and so basing a moral code in that way is logically invalid.

Chrst God in the flesh, The one The Holy Spirit, The Father made a family and revealed himself to us,image bearers.

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Evashe is an accumulation of people conducting such

Lennox is very impressive. It would have been interesting to hear him talk with Cornelius Van Til.

Science has to ask isthis by design, or chance.

Christianity and Judaism are both testable. I tested them both and came to the conclusion that I am Messiah, Shiloh, Joshua, the Branch. Quick question for those who think they truly understand these words: what does the word Shiloh have in common with the name Joshua? The answer to this is the reason that Jews expected the Savior Messiah to be named Joshua (yes, that's my name). Shiloh means something like "He for whom it is," as in, the one for whom the World was made. This is the result of a clearly 'Semitic' existential philosophizing, as in Job: All of this must have some purpose, and so, whoever fulfills that purpose must be the one for whom everything is made (this thinking is similar to some Mesopotamian concepts regarding kingship), and thus, that person is referred to as Shiloh. Now, in the El Amarna letters (if you don't know, go read), the Canaanites of middle 2nd millenium bce used the word ia-ši to mean "for me." Of course, "Joshua" conquered the Canaanites in the Hebrew myth. The glory of the conquering of Canaan was "for him," and so he was named "for me." The Assyrians used the same word, ia-ši with the same meaning. Hebrew scribes exiled in Assyria (a millennia after the claimed time of Joshua) would have noted this word and used it as a symbolic filler for the true history. The true history is preserved in the El Amarna letters, where Canaanite rulers are writing to the Pharaoh asking for his assistance in defending Canaan from invading 'Apiru, who eventually established themselves in Canaan around that time, taking many cities. The 'Apiru/Habiru/SA.GAZ were a class of "dusty" ('Apiru is cognate to Hebrew epher, meaning "dust") people who were known as murderers and thieves. Their history stretches back to Southern Mesopotamia, from which they eventually migrated to Canaan, exactly as the mythical Abraham. The only people attacking Canaanite cities around the time of "Joshua" were the 'Apiru, Hebrews. This is fairly apparent in the record, so the Hebrew descendants of those marauders rewrote history to paint themselves and their claim to Canaan and all of the Levant in a valid light, by way of this idea that God mandated their conquering of Canaan, because it was FOR JOSHUA. Indeed, it was FOR ME.

Someone won’t hear this message unless someone tells it. The Great Commission… it’s what too many Christians have forgotten. In fact, too many have become recluse Christians out of fear and global laziness. What if Jesus and His disciples were that way?! As a brilliant yet poor and desperate woman in Africa once said, “after you pray… move your feet”.

Human Guilt is massive humanity is definitely in need of forgiveness whether we want it or not is another question. But if you reject forgiveness then don't complain when you get judgement because that's the alternative nothing else.