Oxford Professor Answers DIFFICULT Question (Brilliant!) 

As an agnostic atheist myself, may I ask what it was that convinced you of the truth of Christianity?

@@kinggenius930 sorry for the long post… honestly I’m not 100% sure. I know I was deep into politics and some of the podcasts I used to listen to would talk about God and Jesus. I remember really wanting to believe but none of it made sense. I couldn’t buy into a virgin birth or all the miracles. It seemed irrational. Nevertheless, I decided to attend a church. This was during COVID while the country was screaming “masks and 6 feet!” I walked into a church where people were hugging and loving and fellowshipping without fear. Without judgement. I loved it. So I kept attending. Sporadic at first. But became more consistent. Now to answer your question… it wasn’t evidence that convinced me. This will sound weird to an atheist, but it was divine. It was truly from above. Without even seeing much evidence, I decided to pray and eventually I decided to surrender to Jesus. I prayed to God to help me believe. To remove the doubt and unbelief. I fell in love with apologetics later and that only solidified my faith. It wasn’t apologetics that did it though. I don’t have a specific “day of salvation” to speak of. It’s been a journey. But I can promise you that this is more than just words. I find it incredibly difficult even impossible to explain to a non believer what it means to be born again. The best I can do is say “come and see.” I could talk about this for hours, but I’m rambling.

@@kinggenius930 so it’s a long story but I’ll try to keep is short. But surprisingly, it wasn’t evidence that convinced me. I didn’t even know about apologetics until after I was saved. However, I fell in love with apologetics and it has solidified my faith. Before I was saved, I listening to political podcasts that mentioned God and Jesus and of course they would throw in the Gospel message. At a certain point I remember really wanting to believe but it all seemed so outlandish. I couldn’t believe the “fairy tales” in the Bible. I liked the idea of a loving God, but I just couldn’t make myself believe any of it. Nevertheless, I decided to join a church….

@@kinggenius930 eventually my desire to believe grew. After a few months I finally decided to surrender to Jesus. It wasn’t evidence that convinced me. Honestly, I don’t know what convinced me. But I do know it wasn’t an intellectual issue. Ultimately the decision came from my heart. I can’t explain it….

@@kinggenius930 I always find it difficult or even impossible to explain what it means to be born again to an unbeliever. The best I can do is to tell you “come and see”. In the beginning, I would pray to God to help me believe. To increase my faith and remove my doubts. He did. Looking back, I’m realizing that was probably my first answered prayer. Ultimately it was pure faith. It was a desire to know this God. Not evidence. That all came later to solidify my faith. What really convinced me that it’s all real is the fact that I began changing. I had new desires. I desired to do good and please God. I desired to spread the Word. I desired to stop sinning. God delivered me from porn and drinking and anger with very little struggle. All this stuff began happening before I read in the Bible that believers are supposed to experience this change.

Hallelujah! Thank you for sharing this!

​@@cartier13It's like the people who go to the hospital, have a team of doctors fix them up, then thank God for it. You'd think that if a god was on their side, they wouldn't have needed to be in the hospital in the first place.

@@cartier13I’ve already been through all of that, so it would not apply in this situation. Having been deceived by false teachers like Alan Watts and other new age gurus, I used to research depth psychology and it made me even more empty. I read philosophy books, but the philosophers were searching just like I was. All the while there was an old unopened bible sitting on top of a shelf. I thought it foolishness to even consider it as a possibility that the answer to this ultimate question of meaning and purpose could be found in that book full of silly stories. After all, how could a man dying on a cross 2,000 years ago help me today? Besides, I couldn’t even understand it if I tried. Until I heard the GOSPEL being preached open air one evening in Las Vegas. This man was speaking to the crowds about the fact that we are ALL sinners who bare n need of a savior and I was immediately offended, but for the first time I knew I was hearing the truth. I was not being coddled in my sin by some guru, philosopher or psychologist. These words cut straight through to the core of the matter, and I could not let it go no matter how much I wanted to. I searched on RU-vid for gospel presentations and testimonies from other people about how the GOSPEL changed their lives, and I would listen all day every day for about a week, and then one day I heard a testimony of a young person who shared this Bible verse, “On that day many will say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many good deeds in your name?’ And I shall say to them, ‘Depart from Me, I never knew you, you who practice lawlessness!’” This verse is speaking about Jesus, and what Jesus will say to those people who think they are good, but never knew Christ. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks, that the verse was talking directly to me about me. That because I had turned away from God, he was going to turn away from me. I fell down on my knees that very moment, and begged God to forgive me, with tears falling and my nose running, I could only say one word, and I said it over and over, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry…” I wasn’t sorry for myself over the fact that I was on my way to a place called hell, I was sorry for all of the sin that I had committed throughout my life. All of the sin which caused Christ to go to the cross and suffer on my behalf. I knew that I had contributed to the pain and suffering that He endured on the cross. In that moment I was forgiven, and I knew it. And that made me cry even more, and it still does to this day, knowing that after everything that I had said against God and raising my family to ignore Him, He still forgave me. And I still hadn’t read my Bible or been to church, yet I had received salvation. It was through the GOSPEL! The Bible tells us that very thing, it says that, “The gospel is the power of God unto salvation to all who believe,” it also says that, “The gospel is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved, it is the power of God.” So when we hear the GOSPEL we all have 2 choices according to that verse, we can harden our hearts and think it foolishness, or we can believe by the grace of God, when we humble ourselves. So what is the gospel? It is the good news, the offer of peace between enemies, which is what we are toward God. But God, who desires that none should perish but that all would come to repentance, has extended an olive branch. He has given us a way out of being judged as an enemy. And He, God, the creator of the heavens and the earth has set the terms of this peace. He has given His son who is God in the flesh, who lived a sinless life, who gave his life while taking the punishment that was due to me, and then rising from His tomb on the third day proving that He is who He says He is, and ultimately that He can do what He says He and only He can do which is forgive us of all of our sin. So we must respond to these conditions by turning from whatever path of sin we are on, and turning towards Christ. This is called repentance, when we die to ourselves and forsake our sin, lest we forsake Christ. I pray that you would repent and put your faith in the sacrifice which God has provided for you, because He loves you 🙏

@@bibleburner8426A better example would be like a man in a war who is shot at, but is pushed out of the way of the bullet and saved by his friend who takes the bullet for him. Most would agree that this friend saved his life. But what if instead of the man who was saved, after the war is over, goes and visits the father of the friend who saved his life, and instead of praising the son to the father and thanking him for saving his life, the man says, “You know, your son was a fool for what he did. I really didn’t need him to do that for me, I could have survived without him.” That father is going to say “Get out of my house and don’t come back!” And that is exactly what we look like before God. Jesus died so that we might have life, but so many of us have already abandoned Him and turned our backs to Him. On that day when we stand before God, He is going to care to know one thing and one thing and one thing only, what did you have to do with His son? Did you receive Him as your savior and Lord, or did you reject Him?

You are 40 with a family. I mean what saving did you need. You already live like a good percent of your life.

Jesus gave us The Lord's Prayer which begins, "Our Father..." (Emphasis on "Our") One of the most important things Jesus gave us was that our relationship with God is like that of a loving parent and their child. He sacrificed his life rather than back down from his message. But like a loving parent, he can not protect us from the all the chaos in this world.

GOD does have a plan. He gave us his Catholic Church (not the apostate, Catholic church). He gave us himself in the Holy Eucharist (unless you eat my body and drink my blood you will not have life in you- paraphrasing)

What do you mean by Bible study? Do you truly research how the Bible came into existence and what/who are the sources for the Bible. Every Christian would be in shock if they'd learn that.

"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. It (Bible) is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies." -- Mark Twain

@@gloriaanoveros9568 The RCC's view of the church is completely at odds with the NT. It is the Scripture, and it alone, that is the guide for all Christians. The church on earth must submit to the Scriptures. In addition , the idea that the RCC is the church that Christ setup, and that all believers must submit to it, is also rejected in the Scriptures in the strongest possible manner. The RCC bears no resemblance to the church which is portrayed in the NT. Their view is only obtainable if one approaches the Scriptures with such rigid theological misconceptions that they must “mis-interpret” these verses to conform it to their own theological system. If you are absolutely commit yourself to the LITERAL, GRAMMATICAL, HISTORICAL HERMENEUTIC you will be able to understand the "Full Counsel of God" and come to the conclusion the church is not the RCC. KEY POINT: Literal, grammatical, historical hermeneutic is the same approach used in ordinary communication. In fact American jurisprudence rests upon this interpretive approach. The dictionary defines literal interpretation that is "based on the actual words in their ordinary meaning...not beyond the facts. In addition, it should be noted in passing that literal interpretation has been unfairly criticised on the basis that it adheres to a wooden, inflexible literalism that fails to allow for types, symbols, figures of speech and genre distinctions. Literalism does not preclude or exclude correct understanding of types, illustrations, apocalypses, and other genres within the basic framework of literal interpretation. It is not too difficult to account for the widespread approval of the spiritualizing or allegorizing method adopted by many conservative theologians as well as liberal and ROMAN CATHOLIC expositors. Fundamentally its charm lies in its flexibility. The interpreter can change the literal and grammatical sense of Scripture to make it coincide with it own system of interpretation. Shalom

And I would answer.. because I am not an all powerful all knowing being.

@@blacksilus7419what do you desire that God does? kill everyone who does evil? take away your ability to choose good or evil? if someone even thinks of something evil to strike them dead? im just curious on what you think should happen to evildoers

@@blacksilus7419 "And I would answer.. because I am not an all powerful all knowing being." - Ah ... so would you kill all sinners? Would you start from yourself? Oh ... you would kill only the worst sinners? I understand. Where would you draw the line?

@@vontaclerk you haven’t thought this through. In your view God created the evil doers, the famine etc. why would he need to kill anyone? Is the limit of his powers ?

@@jounisuninen Maybe you should also ask your god why he allows leukaemia in children? Hopefully you don’t answer this with ‘free Will’

You are ridiculous. .god is a figment.

Welcome!

@@lightinthedarkness8685 thank you saint. Glory be to our God and Lord Jesus Christ ✝️🤍🕊️⛪️🙌🏻

One day all us Christian posters will know each other. What a day that will be.

❤️🙌🏾

With all due respect, you sound like you follow Jesus.

@@gemaprieto-vw2wj I have tried to live a life that reflects my Christian upbringing. But I have some troubles with some Biblical interpretations as well as understanding who Jesus was and what he really preached. I believe that my soul is seeking the truth.

Sounds like you are nearly there, I pray that God reveals himself to you and that you would seek him. Will be praying for peace and hope in your life through Jesus

Praying with @hjw and others that will welcome our gracious Lord Jesus Christ into your life Amen 🙏 🙌 😊

The question of live after death is interesting, but did you already think about life before birth ? Both cannot be dissociated ...

Deep? Sure if your 2ft tall intellectually.

Unfortunately, Dr. Lennox can't discern fairy tales, fictions, myths, and bs from facts.

Me too! His Grace is truly amazing ❤

Absolutely

If we are to understand unconditional love ever. Or even have a chance to. God must provide the impetus. I believe unconditional Love is the most valuable and powerful unseen energy in any realm or dimension. We do not have the capacity to understand the mysteries of unconditional Love. Yet we have access. That is the keystone to me like the top stone of a great arch. It bridges us with the divine.

So God flooding the whole world and killing everyone is a good thing?

Yeah Grace is such a crazy concept it breaks our minds thinking about how deep of a love would need to exist to give us that

That is a long time, also don't listen to his talk about history or religion he simple just bs it. Also, biology is one of them. When it comes to math and to an extent ethics, then I will like to hear him out.

Great man, wise and kind and an example of how we should all be living...thank you John for your wisdom.

@joeleniola9140 your wrong his words are compelling you offer nothing with your statement

His mind is deeply flawed and nothing he claims can be backed with evidence. He preys on the uneducated, feeble minded and gullible. Take a look in the mirror and you'll see one.

I've got some land and a bridge to sell you.

Same. Depression is just ruthless. And the anxiety dear god. I hope I can do my interview today. Much love. Let’s keep fighting.

sorry mate you don't need a fairytale to give you strength find it within yourself ..we as a species have survived through much harder times than 2024

I think you are more in love with how a powerful gif makes you feel than if God is real or not. That’s the great thing about churches and their attributes to “God”. He doesn’t exist like the Bible entails but the community, your feelings toward this fake God, it all makes your faith stronger. And that’s ok to someone who’s emotional and socially immature.

Ahhh the death bed converting cowards are here. You’ll cave in the end. Sometimes age doesn’t equate wisdom. If you are still in that “fairytale” stage you aren’t an adult, or you can’t do any critical thinking. I’ll raise my family under god. They turn out much better anyways. And they won’t think they are alone in trying times in this ruthless world. I used to think too, God was for the weak and uneducated. I couldn’t have been further from the as I have aged. I can look at the cross now and truly understand its significance and necessity in this world. Maybe one day yall will too.

Hey, whatever it takes. Placebo is just as good as the real thing if it works!

Me too😭

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Unfortunately, Dr. Lennox can't discern fairy tales, fictions, myths, and bs from facts.

An Athesit doesn't despise Christians unless those same Christians have persecuted them. In which case, it's a personal vendetta, not a religious one. Atheist do not hold onto the presupposition God's exist. We only dont believe in one less God than you do. We see no empirical evidence for this claim.

Exactly. I met bad Christians which would have made me despise them. I would have been an angry atheist. God has taught me to love everybody and to always make peace.

@@StevenComicBookLover I've met a lot of stupid ignorant people in my lifetime. They are the kind of people who hate an entire population, race, religion, sex... because of a single slight.

@@lordfraybin that is why Jesus said to not judge anyone. Christians should care about everyone.

Yes brother! God calls you! You don't find Him or choose Him. He chooses you and finds you! To Him be the glory forever and ever Amen!

YES!!

No Joe Rogan does not need to waste his time interviewing John Lennox

Man it would be amazing to see Joe Rogan born again! What a mouthpiece he could be!

​@@codyb4016 Brogan is already a member of club Satan. He flirts with the idea of faith but it's contextually lame. The oaths these "stars" have to swear don't allow any room for Jesus.

Thumbs up - would love that

Even though his points are generally about as logical as a chocolate teapot?

I've discovered him recently and I could not belive people like him still exist in our world today Bless him with many. Many years of health and wisdom so he can lead us to Jesus

Almost as logical as someone who claims a person is wrong without any evidence to support their claims

@@sbaker8971 it's really hard to disprove someone when they don't actually make any points. For instance...Lennox says, (il have to paraphrase) "I know God to be true because I study maths"...he doesn't explain why or offer any solid evidence to support his claim. His argument is just a hopeful statement

​@@JP-je6jg "I know God to be true because I study maths"...he doesn't explain why ... " - Evolutionists and atheists insist abogenesis is possible because of their emotional need for a godless universe - not by observational evidence. In a purely mathematical analysis DNA can only be created by an Intelligent Designer. Random mutations can't do the job because accumulating mutations quickly degrade the structural and thermodynamic stability and function of protein folds. The stable tertiary structure of DNA is lost long before the mutations in question could generate a functioning novel protein fold. The job must be done without delays. It may come as surprise to evolutionists, but time is the enemy of random process. Every error in the process creates new errors. Only 3-15 mutational trials and errors are enough to destroy a DNA section, while different possibilities for error are counted in millions. After each failure the random process must start again and again - in the everlasting vicious circle. Billions of years weaken the chances of success, not improve them. What is even more crushing to the idea of random DNA evolution is the fact that even if a random DNA indeed did appear, it could not be functional. Why? Because somebody must inform DNA of the correct structure in advance. DNA has no brains to do the planning or set the goal to itself. A successful random evolutionary process is for all intents and purposes impossible. There are other practical problems too. Energy is needed to turn disorder into order. That energy, however, has to be carefully controlled and precisely directed because uncontrolled energy is more likely to speed up decay, just as the energy from the sun and the weather can hasten the deterioration of a building. Those who believe in evolution cannot satisfactorily explain how energy could be creatively directed in a random process. We do know that atheists take the mathematically weakest possibility against the strongest possibility, if this approach support their atheistic worldview. This however is not scientific thinking. The more we read of atheistic reasoning, the better we understand the lack of science in that reasoning.

Precisely, you would believe in a super magical being that created everything just by listening to someone else tell you it’s true. That is why you are already a believer.

You are evil?? You're actually admitting that? Can we send the police over, I presume you have some confessions to make.

@@lordfraybin are you casting the first stone , oh perfect one.?

@@lordfraybinThere's plenty of evil that is legal, oh lost one. Lying, cheating, cutting corners, trash talk, expletive-laden speech, disrespect of any sort, failing to care for the weak and needy.

@@gerardjones7881 You prefer to let criminals roam free...?

​@@lordfraybinso you're perfect? Without sin? 😂 😂 😂

I hope you understand that he did not base what he is saying on evidence.

It’s too bad John Lennox intentionally misrepresents Dawkins statements and positions on which Lennox bases his entire argument on, and Dawkins has corrected him on. Dawkins actually calls things good and evil all the time, he doesn’t get rid of the category of good and evil like Lennox claims. Dawkins is using the words in a universal frame of reference, not an absolute one. Blind pitiless indifference doesn’t apply to living beings that by a process of evolution by natural selection are not indifferent.

@@Tinesthia I agree. It pains me that most Christian apologists have to misrepresent the position of atheists. Don't they have better arguments to present so then don't have to lie? Have they not heard of the ninth commandment?

Are you saying that living things with moral conscience were more adapt to survive and dominate others that didn't have moral conscience ? And that's why we have this moral issue in us? Really?

@@rafaelsia4044 Correct! The truth of this is demonstrated in game theory by looking at the prisoner's dilemma and strategies for a successful outcome. Fascinating reading.

People famously don’t choose to be in love. They fall in love. Often inconveniently.

Free will is a lie, if you believe God is all knowing & omnipotent. Not to mention there are plenty of examples in the bible where God removes free will.

​@@lordfraybinso you don't have free will?

@@lordfraybin yeah, I’m gonna need some specific references on that one!

@@djpokeeffe8019not in love as in the emotion, but love the action. Christ said to love all. That is a conscious decision, which is why we can be commanded to love our enemy. How we actually feel is not the point, but rather our actions.

I have an idea. Don't make anything evil, and then you wouldn't have to get rid of evil.

@J-ai - what an horrendous thing to say. You are in obvious need of psychiatric treatment. And it's Christians like you who continually prove to non believers that both your God and religion are totally EVIL.

@@Rotten9 So robots?

​@@cthulhucrews6602 Well we live in a fallen world that is cursed by the sin of man that disobeyed God from the very beginning, sin brought pain, suffering, illness, and death into the world all from man's choice of disobeying God's command when they were in the Garden of Eden.

If humans all behaved as trees then there would be peace on earth. Humans can easily formulate a hypothetical, but they are incapable of following through.

Exactly

For you with age came ignorance.

@@kos-mos1127 how foolish. How old are you? Are you still in the phase of pointing fun at bible passages and feel elite because you can? If a person doesn’t get closer to god as they get older they are fools. All death bed convert cowards in the end. If you haven’t figured out by now raising a family under Christianity over just not believing, the kids usually come out much better, well rounded people, who have something to lean on in this brutal word. Why don’t you really look at the cross for once. Truly look at it and what it represents and how crucial religion is for this world currently.

It deleted my comment. Wooow. I didn’t say anything.

Rome wants you to repeat fruitless prayers, confess your sins to a man, keep commandments other than the true ten (especially SUNDAY), and have anything but a *personal* relationship with our Father.

I have the utmost admiration and appreciation for him. He's incredibly humble and warm in his delivery, too.

Amasing how a so called professor can reach a point where he thinks he has some divine understanding of gods realm !one member of a humane species on one planet among billions . He and humanity has no conceptual understanding”as yet” of the new found reality of 300 billion light years across this realm we talk about so freely. It’s very embarrassing thats a fact . Dawkins? Now that he realises there may be more to it than he thought a few years ago .has more intelligence than this professor ever will have. How on earth can a man who was gifted with a degree in what ever ‘ come to believe in such utter rubbish? The mind boggles!shakespeare countryUK

Which God would have been self evident to you if you had been born in Afghanistan? What would have been the chances of you becoming Christian, if you had been born in Pakistan, or Thailand? Think about it a little bit.

Okay, nobody is saying all prayers should be answered especially since none is answered. Some are just confused to why a good god did not answer prayer during holocaust. I think we are just confused why the prayers of those with cancer were not heard. However, he loves you so much that he shows up in your life and answer some of your prayers.

@@cartier13 that’s luciferianism 🤣 that ideology has been slow dripped to the masses for over a hundred years. So no thank you 🤣

@@Mike-20193 allah means god. 🤣 look at the scholars coming out. To clarify, they mean the same god. Our father in heaven. The creator. The god of Adam. All these things have been debunked 🤣 your ideology is falling apart after only.. what?! A little over a hundred years?! 🤣🤣🤣

@@joeleniola9140 especially because their is none answered? How does that support the idea that not all prayers should be answered? Your evangelical atheism is wasted here. And as far as the same boring argument of why is there pain and suffering. How could you possibly know how good even a drop of not bad can be until you’ve had a whole gallon of horrible? How will a child turn out if you strip him of all autonomy, or any chance of danger, or getting things wrong? Just do everything for the child. You know that kid! He was the one that beat you over the head with god and how much better he was than you. You mistake that for a Christian but those people who claim Christ and do not show mercy are what I call evil 🤣

What part of it all are you still trying to put together, to complete your faith that it is real?

@@Kariegoz I'm trying to understand more about God, since I haven't finish my readimg in the Bible. I believe everyone starts with Christ dying on a cross and then we wants to know more about sins, how everything started, etc. In resume my faith in Christ, God and Holy Spirit is the same, but my love and knowledge grows as I learn more about it

@@ThiagoMnab - How everything started was with God creating the first batch of angels with free will. They all knew the rules in the eternal realm, like reading a list of rules posted on the wall, but they did not have any life experience to understand the context about why some of the rules existed. So, a third of them broke the rules to test them, and to test God, and He created this lower dimension that we live in now. The angels who broke the rules were cast down to this realm, and new souls God creates must go through trials and hardships here in temporary lives so we can learn the context of why right is right, and why wrong is wrong, that way we will not do as the rebellious angels did. You are meant to witness injustice and unfair things here, that is important to understanding the context of the rules in Heaven, where no sin is allowed. Sin is brought on by a lack of knowledge, the context we are learning on Earth, as well as any personality flaw. I can show you the 11:11 list that God led me to understand. Positives: Humility, Generosity, Compassion, Integrity, Impartiality, Diligence, Sympathy, Appreciation, Optimism, Restraint, and Love. Negatives: Pride, Greed, Cruelty, Deception, Bias, Negligence, Retaliation, Entitlement, Pessimism, Indulgence, and Hatred. Each of these are opposites of the other. Your goal in life is to choose humility over pride, generosity over greed, and so on. This is what you should be actively working on, while the context of understanding will be placed in your life path; God will handle that. I hope this knowledge will help you in your journey.

Interesting... the more I watch Harry Potter movies, the more I believe it's real. Santa Claus too... Quite convincing...

@@lordfraybin good for you, keep it up!

He really isn't. Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking can see his argument is purely based around his desire for god to be real. Seriously, we don't need god to decide what is right and wrong. The code of Hammurabi existed for centuries before god was even thought up. We have an innate sense of compassion that has evolved due to us being a social species.

@@JP-je6jgwho is “we”?

@@himynameisjohnwumsh7631 ....humans...homo sapiens...you...me...people all around you...

@@JP-je6jg In response to your first argument. I could also say Richard Dawkins does the same based on his desire God not to exist. He also admited that he falsed information in his book "Gods Delusion" about Jesus and in an interview said there is nothing that could convice me about Gods existence (so he is against the cientific method). In response to de Hammurabi argument. The babilonians praised Gods as all civilizations throughout history. And yes we have an innate sense of being good but also of being bad. And God is of course needed to make a distinction between god and evil, because without God there is no objective/superior moral standard in order to be good. If there is no God and you want to follow a kind of an evolved animal based nature, then we should kill the weaker and the ill, because natural selection is the only law in the animal kingdom. A man called Hitler tried it, and it did not end very well. By the way this is social darwinism developed by Sir Francis Dalton (Darwins cousin). I am open to debate.

@@dieastrologischeecke4673 Right, so the problem with your take is…Dawkins can evidence his points with documented science. Lennox as far as I have seen, has never done that. Dawkins doesn’t need to appeal to emotions to make his point, Lennox does. OK, I have read the God Delusion, I’d be interested to hear what bits were falsified? And no, he is just using the myriad ways that the brain can be tricked, to explain that there are far more logical ways in which we might, for example, hear voices. If you heard a voice telling you that to test your faith, you had to kill your eldest son…would you immediately do that? Or would you sit and think and consider the options? We know people hear voices and suffer from all sorts of mental illnesses, so what is more likely, god speaking to them or…they are very unwell people? Also, you know who would know what would convince Dawkins, your all knowing, all powerful god. Yet he doesn’t seem bothered enough to try. So you admit the Babylonians had gods? Excellent, so you acknowledge that wasn’t your god, the Christian god? Yet they still had an idea of what right and wrong was. They knew murder was bad, they knew theft was bad etc. But that can’t have come from your god, because they didn’t worship him. You also acknowledge that we have a sense of right and wrong innate in all of us. This will have evolved over thousands of generations as our social species developed. We live in family groups and we form bonds, we would want to see them protected, so suffering is something we have decided is bad. So, I don’t know where you somehow force god into this? Objective morality does not exist. Objective morality means it is true regardless of outside influences or contexts. The Bible endorses slavery, the Bible says it is ok to kill non Christians, it endorses incest. Yet now, we know these things to be wrong. If those things were ok and now aren’t…that means its impossible for there to be an objective standard. They are subjective as they change with the times. Do you understand that? Its really important you do. Let’s look at god themselves. So, as you point out with Hitler, genocide is wrong, yet if the flood story is true, god committed genocide…so genocide when we do it is bad…but when god does it, its ok? That doesn’t sound like objective morality to me. Let’s be honest here. Your last comment puts two and two together and makes twenty nine and so sorely mispresents humanist values as to very nearly count as libel. I don’t believe in god and yet I don’t feel the need to slaughter those weaker than me. In fact, god(s) have often been the justification for some of the most horrendous acts in history. I don’t believe in god, but I respect the life of other people. As humans, we have developed beyond simple and base animal instincts. Do I really need to explain that? We have complex social structures and sets of mutually beneficial laws and values. We create art and culture. We have changed and transformed the planet to suit us. To the planet’s detriment, we clearly don’t operate in the same ecosystems. So, to try and state you have god or animal instinct, is just ridiculous and completely dishonest. Your god appeared thousands of years after human society had developed. We had the pyramids and Stonehenge and Gobekli Tepe, all of them dedicated to different gods and belief systems. So, the arrogance you display by trying to hijack human compassion for your god is quite frankly a little sickening.

Yes absolutely. We took risk, knowingly our children may go against us. But our love accepted the risk. Because God's DNA is still within us kicking and alive. God took the risk and was ever ready to bring back the deviated mankind from His love by offering Himself on the cross and putting an end to our sinning nature. Sin is nothing but going away from God's love. God put His life at stake to free the mankind, because He created the mankind with FREE WILL. The people who blame God who created them with freewill, shall not forget, God was not a silent spectator, but putting His life at stake He further revealed the fulness of His love. We may be in any kind of hopeless situation, but Jesus is looking forward as a the father in His the prodigal son parable. Super loving God our Jesus. Amen.

"Atheism was my mantra for many years" Not sure what you mean by this but nothing about atheism is spiritual. "I started to read the Bible" Okay "i find myself listening to Religeous text and getting deeper and deeper into the faith" Then you lost me entirely, I hope you come to a reasonable conclusion on what the bible is. It is a book that supports slavery and other nonsense.

@@joeleniola9140 I never said Atheism is spiritual, and by Mantra, I meant I promoted it at every chance I could get. As for the Bible promoting slavery and nonsense, look around you, its happening every day with the corruption of young minds.

@@keithlongley362 " I never said Atheism is spiritual" I said I am not sure what you meant and made a clarification that atheism is not spiritual. "I meant I promoted it at every chance I could get" Okay " its happening every day with the corruption of young minds" That is your excuse for you nice book. Actually, we are better in society than before, you just get the worse news on media. Though new problem rises with tech, we are better as a society that the past. Also, what in the world are you saying? What are you comparing slavery to? Telling me to see corruption of young minds. I don't get it.

@@joeleniola9140 you dont get much, do you?

@@keithlongley362 Yeah, I don't. Do you mind explaining.

It is God's kindness and goodness that draws us back to Him. Please make it a priority to know Him and His Word. Times are getting tougher, and you will need that strong foundation to stand on. God bless you, Sister. There is nothing in this World more important than knowing Jesus.

Beautiful writing and sentiment. Agree completely. All the best.

Show any evidence for your peculiar supernatural god

Good point!

​@@brianmesser12 a “peculiar supernatural god” sounds like either a strawman or some sort of idol, that we’re not supposed to have anyway. Now if you mean a Creator, then creation is evidence for a Creator just as a building demands a builder.

@@brianmesser12 stay in the mud, it's cool

God kinda gave up on patience and mercy when he killed everybody with a flood, no?

God is nowhere to be seen. Why? He doesn't exist, and never did. He was a creation of man to control the iron-age peasant idiots of the day. Congratulations on being no more evolved or intelligent

@@80Mollusc Considering Noah's family was saved, God in fact did NOT "give up" on patience and mercy. He didn't have to save anyone, let alone Noah or his family.

Amen ... II Peter 3:9

Well I'm not a sinner. From my perspective I haven't committed one sin in my entire life.

@@cartier13 Sure. Whatever takes away our own responsibility for our fall and separation from the universe.

@@ethermod307 There is actually a compelling arguement for it. You can do some research on it, it is interesting. That aside, in the bible, there is no free will and the only will that is free is god's will.

@@joeleniola9140 Are these the words of a soul who has decided in free will to separate itself from God and the Universe, only to use an excuse for its decision, the lack of free will? It's your choice.

@@ethermod307 "only to use an excuse for its decision" I actually take responsibility for my actions; this is not what Christians do though. All your sins are put on Jesus. Do you not see the hypocrisy hear? I did not just hope on atheist because of "sin." Christianity and other religions make no sense and so I stopped believing in it. I looked at the evidence and come to a conclusion. Again, according to your bible you do not have free will, you can look into it yourself. i am not making this up.

@@joeleniola9140 I do not talk about Christians, or the Bible. I'm sharing my truth with you. The truth is inside of you and you're free to find it or to ignore it. The fact that you watched this video means you're in free will searching for some kind of truth that resonates with your soul. And that's good.

Absolutely. I am really looking forward to meet him one day and enjoying his warm-hearted wisdom. Either this side of heaven or in eternity.

For a mathematician, he sure can preach. I thought we were told to show our work in math class, Lennox just skipped that and present his claims. No evidence no nothing. Amazing indeed with this level of bs. It is surely amazing lol.

At what exactly is he the best? What is his discipline(besides math, and there he isnt the best)?Desperate need to belive in fairytales? He started with Epicurus' paradox and without giving any arguments, just went to some useless Dawkins rant.Nobody cares about Dawkins, the point is where is your evidence that Chrisrt resurrected? Or that he performed miracles? Or that he was born by virgin mother? Trying to convince everyone that Dawkins isn right(truly l think he often is too stubborn) doesnt make right any of fundamental christianity's or islam's claims.Its not about Dawkins or any other atheist, its about why you still believe in ancient Jew's mythology?Please note, l am not disproving God/Force/Creator behind the universe/multiverse, but rather all lies and stupidity that you take as the truth.

@@Darko.Damjanovic Good answer

@@Darko.Damjanovic He is the best Christian apologetics writer I have read in my opinion. Read a few of his books and each one of those questions you asked are answered.

The Church is dying and on life support.

Love this! ❤❤❤

Just keep the true Sabbath and don't fall for the Sundae falacy.

@@JesusSaves86AB God says not to bicker about Holy Days and Foods in His Holy Word The Holy Bible, so you’re wrong about the Sabbath/s.

ATHEISTS and EVOLUTIONISTS KNOW that they are the LIARS and spreaders of the LIE and false claim that the BIBLE is not the "Word of God" and source of TRUTHS but just a worthless and useless book of lies, myths, fictions, fantasies, and fairy tales and CHRISTIANS, HINDUS, MUSLIMS, BUDDHISTS, and fanatic members of ALL kinds of RELIGIONS KNOW that they are the LIARS and spreaders of the LIES and UNBIBLICAL teachings and doctrines about "heaven and hellfire", "Armageddon", "Trinity", "rapture", and "reincarnation" Jesus Christ KNOWS that the Creator is the True and Sovereign God and the BIBLE is the "Word of God" or "Word of the Creator". The Creator KNOWS that he authorized and sent Jesus Christ from heaven to earth thousands of years ago to preach and teach the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" to imperfect, suffering, and dying human beings The Creator KNOWS that his favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and EXISTENCE on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 is definitely NOT for LIARS and spreaders of LIES and deceits but ONLY for lowly, ordinary, kind, considerate, and respectful persons on earth who willingly submit to the authority of his Christ and put their faith and hope in his teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" as written in Matthew 28: 18, Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 The Creator KNOWS that all human beings will just become worthless and useless dusts on earth after their deaths just like the animals as written in Ecclesiastes 3: 19, 20 ; 9: 5, 6 but he knows too that the teaching of his Christ about the "RESURRECTION of the DEAD" is his guarantee that all loving, kind, and respectful persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, King David, Followers of Jesus Christ, and many others will not remain as worthless and useless dusts on earth forever, instead, in the right and proper time, he will let Jesus Christ RESURRECT them back to life so they can all happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.

“Church is a hospital for sinners, not a country club for saints”

@@2legit2011 i dig it

You mean, scientifically illiterate fool.

"We allow evil." Justify why some babies are born with illnesses so severe they only live a few weeks in pain? Why is there childhood leukaemia? That's not us....According to scrupture that's God.

It is not

@@joeleniola9140 It is so!

@@maskofsorrow It is not because it is bs

@@joeleniola9140 Unfortunately, you are wrong. God reigns.

@@maskofsorrow Unfortunately, you are delusional and there is no evidence for a God and your god to be exact. You have the floor, prove me wrong.

ETERNAL DEATH as the CONSEQUENCE for INSULTING and DISHONORING JESUS CHRIST Atheists, Evolutionists, Mormons, SDAs, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Born Again Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatic members of all kinds of Religions in the world who are raising, glorifying, and exalting themselves as greater, glorious, powerful, higher and superior than Jesus Christ obviously don't respect and value their own lives, dignities, and existence..... unbothered and just don't care even if their Satanic arrogance and foolishness in mocking, opposing, and defying the Creator's Sovereignty and his Christ's authority and teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" bring them nothing but their own dishonor, disgrace, downfall and ETERNAL DEATHS, just worthless and useless dusts on earth forever like Adam and Eve. ETERNAL LIFE and existence on Earth as HONOR and REWARD for HONORING and OBEYING JESUS CHRIST All persons on earth who willingly honor and obey Jesus Christ as the Creator's Anointed King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth and believe his teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" will definitely be honored and rewarded by the loving, kind, and merciful Creator with ETERNAL LIFE and existence on Earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death. The teaching of Jesus Christ about the "RESURRECTION of the DEAD" is the Creator's guarantee that loving, kind, and respectful persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Moses, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers, and many others will definitely be RESURRECTED back to life by Jesus Christ in the Creator's right and proper time so they can all happily, peacefully, and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects and citizens of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, compassions, generosities, favors, and blessings of the Creator and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of the Creator's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth, Jesus Christ.

How do you know god is good

Having experienced selfishness and selflessness from others and me doing so, that experience leads me to believe "selflessness is better than selfishness." And Jesus claimed to be God and he gave proof of such, for the purpose for which he died on the cross was to pay the penalty of sin, of wrongdoing, for each person that would ever live. He lived and died helping others and never himself. Even if Jesus did not live again after dying, this would still be the greatest act of selflessness conceivable by the human mind. This is how at least I know God is good.@@thescott4340

There has not been any evidence of God bought up based on morality . It is an interesting monologue but it does not explain morality. Hypothetically if you are alone on a deserted island does good and evil exist? Good and evil exist in the context of interactions with others.

@@kos-mos1127 I would say yes, good and evil still exist if you are alone on a deserted island. Harming one's self is considered by most people to be wrong and evil. That individual would be committing evil against themselves. In contrast, taking care of your body, nourishing your body is considered good by most people. These actions can still be done even if you are alone on a deserted island. Another example could be taking care of the environment or polluting the environment. You don't need other people to do that. Most people consider taking care of the environment to be morally right and good. You are right that good and evil exist in the context of interactions with others. But good and evil also exist in the context of interactions with yourself and the physical world around you. I'm interested to know more about your beliefs. Do you believe in objective moral values? Or do you believe that morality is subjective? For example, do you believe that it is always wrong to harm an innocent child? Or would you say that's a subjective matter?

Unless you an be sure your child will make the correct profession of faith they may end up in Hell. So, why did you as a believing Christian decide to take that chance with your child’s eternal destiny? The closer you are to god’s purposes the less good reason you have to have children.

Once you said immigrants I disagree they'll procreate and have more babies so if they (the citizens won't do it ) the immigrants happily will

I take it you've no problem burning your children for all eternity in a lake of fire for not worshiping you, is your version of love? I feel for your children. Poor kids.

@@cartier13If free will is an illusion, then you can’t reason or think. Why should you believe anything at all, given that it was predetermined? Why should anyone listen to what you say, when you admit that rationality and introspection are beyond you?

⁠​⁠​⁠@@BPond7 Just because there are underlying factors to my thoughts or rational, those thoughts are still a product of my particular mix of body and brain. My thoughts can still be compared to reality for accuracy. My introspections can still considered by other people. Saying my thoughts are determined by many known and unknown factors does not mean rationality or introspection are beyond me. It just means rational thought is a product of physical processes rather than imaginary indemonstrable non-physical processes.

@@Tinesthia Right. All you’re saying is that you’re a meat puppet. A moist robot, with no free will of your own.

@@Tinesthia As I read in a Conan story "If this world truly is a illusion, then I as a part of that illusion would not know nor care for the difference and so I shall continue to do as I please"

@ghxfit - what you say is sooooo dumb. As there is zero evidence for God nothing can be done in spite of it and no-one has freedom to choose/not choose evidence that does not exist - obviously

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