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Unfortunately, as right as he is about there being a God, Lennox denies the very Book of Genesis which he cites as foundational to our understanding of the origin of the world. He denies that the world was, according to scripture, created only thousands of years ago, and all of the amazing discoveries in science which supports that fact in astronomy, cosmogony, genetics, human population increases over time, recorded human history, and biology. It saddens me to see such intellectuals acknowledge the world was created by God but then turns around and denies Special Creation and accepts uniformitarianism. Dr. Lennox believes God used evolution to bring us into being and that the universe and the earth are billions of years old. I pray that his eyes become opened. How many days did Joshua march around the city of Jericho? How do we know how long a day was then? Isn't it because of context? The context in the Genesis creation narrative likewise tells us the days of creation were 24 hour days. The word yom is used 410 times in relation to a number. Every time it means an ordinary day. "evening and morning" are used 38 times in the Old Testament and each time it means an ordinary day. "evening and morning" are used 23 times without the word yom and each time it means an ordinary day. "night" is used 52 times without yom and each time it means an ordinary day. Because of the context of the creation days, "evening and morning", if these days represented vast periods of time, the either God is a untrustworthy idiot because he has conveyed something untrue, or he is a liar because he has conveyed that the length of the days is equal to the coming and going of the sun, while they were in fact vast periods of time. If the days of creation in Genesis 1 represent thousands to millions of years,and Adam and Ever were created during day 6, then one would have to believe they were thousands to millions of years old by day 7 unless youbelieve God created them at the last moment before sunrise on day 6. Moreover, since the passages describe the coming and going of the sun, one would have to believe the earth orbited the sun at a rate exponentially slower during the days of creation than immediately after. If you don't hold to that idea, then you have to explain why the days of creation represent vast ages of time and an exponentially slower moving earth than for day 7 and all days afterward. In the context, the word day in Genesis 1 refers to six 24-hour days. Every time it appears with “evening and morning” or with a number like “sixth day,” which is over 200 times, it refers to a 24-hour day. If the days represent cast periods of time, then God would have had to supernaturally placed all plants into a frozen state of stasis to wait for the sun to arrive the next "day" so that they would have sunlight. Plants can survive a couple of literal days without sunlight, but they cannot survive hundreds, thousands, or millions of days without light. If the days represent vast periods of time, the sun would have charred the earth into a dessert on each day that the earth rotated. Otherwise, one would have to believe each day represents millions of actual days, but this contradicts the statements of "and the evening and the morning were the X day". Because of the statements regarding the workweek and sabbath in Exodus, the creation days cannot be longer than 24 hour. Since death entered the world because of sin (Romans 5:12), all of the animals God created would have had to live for vast ages of time until Adam sinned. This forces Day-Age theorists to arbitrarily decide how long the creation days must be to fit their concept. Furthermore, Jesus and the New Testament apostles read Genesis 1-11 as straightforward historical narrative. What is the genre of Genesis 1? Is it poetic or prophetic? Poetry is easy to recognize in Hebrew because unlike English poetry which often relies upon rhyme and meter, Hebrew poetry is characterized by parallelism: either synonymous or antithetical parallelism. Synonymous parallelism occurs when an idea is repeated using different words, often synonyms of the original. Consider Psalm 19:1, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” The ‘heavens’ and ‘sky’ basically mean the same thing, just as ‘declare’ and ‘proclaim’ basically mean the same thing. Both the first and second phrase have basically the same meaning: that the universe tells us something about God’s creative glory. Since this passage is poetic, the author did not intend to convey the idea that the sky literally talks. But nonetheless, we can learn something about God by observing the heavens as if they were speaking to us. We understand the meaning. Antithetical parallelism occurs when the second phrase is the alternative to the first - like two sides of the same coin. An example is seen in Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” The first part proclaims the positive aspect of reverential submission to the Lord: knowledge. The second part problems the negative consequences of a refusal to submit to the Lord - a lack of wisdom. Hebrew scholar Dr. Steven Boyd has conducted a statistical analysis of 522 Old Testament passages. He found that poetic and narrative passages could be categorized with a better than 99% accuracy based on the verb usage alone. Dr. Boyd’s analysis showed conclusively that Genesis 1 is narrative history, not poetry. This means the only way to interpret it properly is as history, looking for its straightforward, historical meaning. The immediate context of each appearance of day in Genesis 1 conclusively establishes their length. Each day is marked by “evening and morning.” A day lasting millions of years would have far more than one evening and morning. Throughout the remainder of the Old Testament, when evening and morning are used together, they refer to a normal-length day. Each day is also linked with a number (“first day,” “second day”). This construction occurs more than 300 times in the Old Testament, and with only a couple of potential exceptions, it always signifies a normal-length day. Furthermore, in the original Hebrew, Genesis 1:31 states that the final day of Creation Week was indeed the sixth day. If millions of years had passed, then Day Six could not have been the sixth day. Another important consideration, often overlooked, is the fact that the plural form of the word day (‘yamim’) is never used anywhere in Scripture non-literally. “Days” (plural) always means “days.” And yet it is the plural form of the word that is used in Exodus 20:11 which states, “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them…” Since the plural form of days is used here, there can be no doubt that the author intended the indicate that God created literally in the span of six days. "Yom represents a revelational day. That is, in six literal days ( or possibly in a vision which represented to Moses the whole drama of creation in six visionary days ) God described to His prophet the mystery of how He had brought creation into being, and the stages by which He did so… This interpretation is perhaps tenable without surrendering the inerrancy of the Bible record. But it encounters several serious difficulties, chief among which is the complete absence of any hint or suggestion in the text of Genesis 1 that a mere vision is being described. It reads like perfectly straightforward history: In the beginning God created heaven and earth: on the first "day" He created light; on the second day He separated the waters into the upper and the lower, and so on." - Gleason L. Archer Jr., "A Survey of Old Testament Introduction." Moody Press, 2nd Ed, 1974, p.185 BY STEVEN W. BOYD, PH.D. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 01, 2004 (Dr. Steven W. Boyd is a creationist lecturer, professor, and scientist. He is Research Professor of Bible and Theology at Calvary University in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is also the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Creation Studies. He was formerly a Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at The Master's College (1998-2014). Dr. Boyd has a B.S. and a M.S. in Physics from Drexel University, a Th.M. in Old Testament and Semitics from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Hebraic and Cognate Studies from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. )

You are infected with a negative fairy tail like mythology invented by people and these represent a giant lucrative corporation without caring for poisoning others with this. Nonsense

Just think of all the Atheist Dr. Lennox debated and the many that came before him that have already died and gone out into Eternity, only now they realize what a fool they've been. there are no Atheist in Hell, because now that they are there, they are now believers, but it's now everlastingly too late. but it's not too late for you my dear friend, open your heart to Christ today, don't be fool and in Hell to stay. His love is calling you now. John 3:16-17

I love how Lennox thinks he has defeated real scientists light years ahead of him trained in subjects that he has no concept of understanding such as evolutionary biology and astrophysics by simply saying that they are poisoning science by deliberately lying and trying to teach people that God is not real! This is not an argument i would expect from a professor. This is an argument i would expect from an ignorant creationist! Clearly, Lennox cannot defeat these real scientists with science as he would have provided scientific evidence to show why he is right!

The love of God in Professor John pours from his lectures. So grateful that I have just discovered him at this time in my life😊

~Thank you sooooo-much Dr. John Lennox for the words you give to us. Love to you & your family❤

This is going on ten years old now. I hope Mr Lennox is still doing well . He makes brain thing itchy.

He is the C S Lewis of our time.

Mint ! :)

more ancient folklore dressed up as science..

The best thing about being smarter than your audience is, that you can fool them very easily. Exactly for this reason Voltaire wrote: "La religion a commencé le jour où le premier fripon a rencontré le premier imbécile." However, if you believe what you say, you are even stupider than your audience. ​

We live in difficult times. Having sermons like this are literally a Godsend. Thank you for such excellent edification and instruction. I have not "seen" but I believe.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Thank you. God bless you.

Pretty big mistake John made there around minute 38 with claiming the bible doesn't say anything about the age of the earth, and that there might be billions of years between genesis 1:1 and the rest of the creation. Exodus 20:11 clearly states that the 6 days of creation included the creation of heavens and the earth, end of story, the eath is youngh, anyone teaching otherwise is ignorant of the scriptures.

Believers of Jesus must never forget that GOD is real and this demands we build a relationship with GOD. Knowing GOD is real does us no good if we do not have that relationship with HIM. Believers of Jesus must never forget that GOD is good and this demands we trust GOD totally. Knowing GOD is good does us no benefit if we do not have that child-like trust in HIM. We know GOD is real and GOD is good; we, as HIS children, praise and worship HIM.

My favorite public Christian and my favorite apologist. He never fails to provoke thought. He never fails to present the gospel. I loo, forward to meeting him in the new creation.

This man has brought me back to Jesus Christ. Bless you John. 🙏

As I watch, I observe all the elderly and it is something I always wondered about. What is the current generation doing. As I noted to a Christian brother the other day when he asked " Why dabble in history?" I responded as his life did not show the fruits of the Spirit. Is Jesus just history one should not dabble in?

Praise you God almighty. Thank you Dr. John C. Lennox for the intellectual lecture. Truly enjoyed this! My faith grows more and more as I watch your lectures and discussions on the truth of our God.

The problem with Hawking an others of his ilk is they believe God just like all the other Gods is a creation of humans instead of a creator of humans!

Thank you so much Dr. Helen for having shared your great fait in the LORD.❤❤❤❤❤

I will ALWAYS want to listen to this man!!!! I also tell everyone I talk to about John as well!!!!!!

Gbu Dr

There is no creation by criminal imaginary fairies! The imaginary god of the bible is extremely stupid! .

Stephen Hawking was an intelligent scientist! Lennox is too stupid to understand science! .

" In the beginning The universe formed naturally 13.8 billion years ago! This planet formed naturally 4.5 billion years ago! The imaginary god of the bible was created by stupid bronze age goat herders about 4000 years ago! .

This universe formed naturally! The universe has no purpose! Lennox exists because his parents had sex! Mo imaginary fairy was involved! .

The fact that there is no creation is fundamental to science! Imaginary beings have no influence on reality! Lennox is too stupid to understand science! .

There are no gods! There is no creation! There is no heaven! .

Lennox is not a scientist! Lennox is too stupid to understand science! Lennox is unable to distinguish between reality and fairy tales! .

Genesis is an ancient text that tried to explain complexity of universe with no scientific knowledge

God brings more questions

The Bible is the policies and procedures for Life.

May the Lord keep you safe and healthy and strong for his Glory so the teaching can continue to change the lives of people who do not believe in Jesus Christ 🙏👍

By the time Jesus appears to the disciples in John 20, he has already ascended into heaven. The question therefore arises, what was it that Thomas was doubting?

If you’re a truly honest and good student of the Bible, you know that the author’s of the Bible said that if you can do miracles, like those described in the Bible for example, your understanding of the Bible is certifiably true and if others can do miracles also, then their understanding and yours will be exactly the same no matter how your culture and languages may differ! If you can’t do such miracles, it serves as proof positive that you don’t know what you’re talking about and that at the very least people would be wise to ignore you. So, if someone tells you that God says such and such, ask them to certify it by doing a legitimate miracle while you watch. Don’t think it’s true because it seems to say so in their book. Books, just like proponents who claim their divine origin, can lie or be mistaken too!

Good it need to die

Truth Bomb💣💥 Brilliant🎯

God bless you brother…may god use u abandantly

Jesus Christ may have been the humanistic god man ever created but the fact is he was created out wanting imagination by the people who wanted a god such as that. Peaceful loving and compassionate to the human experience, that's why this god is still believed and worshiped to this day.

Dr Lennox is amazing.

Food for Thought 👍👍 But, questions can never end... a) If You find the most/last fundamental particle... the very next question will be..."From where this last fundamental particle came?" b) If You find God... the very next question will be..."From where God came?" c) If You say this last fundamental particle/God existed always.... the next questions will be... (i) "Who/Which rule decided that the God is to be good/powerful/one etc. (Why not many Gods/less powerful God/evil God)" (ii) "Which rule decided that the last fundamental particle will have these properties only, which it will possess...why not some different properties?" (iii) "How can an immaterial God make something material? What is the process behind this conversion?" (iv) "What is the energy source of this immaterial thing by which it can sustain itself and perform actions also? etc. etc. Therefore in spirituality/Yoga they say that we should focus on achieving Supreme Happiness (Happiness/Bliss that never goes away). Even if we find everything in the universe, ultimately we will achieve satisfaction/happiness. So, they say don't give much importance to knowledge (because questions can never end)...but give importance to the path which leads you to a state of default/supreme happiness, which once achieved never ever goes away.. God is nothing but this state. Once we achieve this state, they say, we are no different from God...then, we become God.

.....sigh.... . ........

As man is God was once as man , and as God is man will become, prof. Your erring there.

Remember When created man he took the earth material to form a man. So creation is organising chaotic materials. 2 ,we the humans are spirit and earthly materials But The spirit is a literal son and daughter of God. There is nothing like nothing, all things are materials seen and not things. Prof. There your erring at that point.

As i feel God did not created every from nothing except from the chaotic existence of materials,

God has blessed me tonight in 2022 finding this message.

I have never forgotten the chapel service I first heard Carson 30 years ago in Grand Rapids. He is a treasure.