Good God? Faith and Reason in the Face of Suffering | John Lennox at Rice University
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Oxford professor John Lennox delves into the question of how a good God could allow for suffering in the world. | Rice University, 2013 | Explore more at www.veritas.org.
Want Veritas updates in your inbox? Subscribe to our twice-monthly newsletter here:
www.veritas.org/newsletter-yt
INSTAGRAM: / veritasforum
FACEBOOK: / veritasforum
SUBSCRIBE: www.youtube.co...
Over the past two decades, The Veritas Forum has been hosting vibrant discussions on life's hardest questions and engaging the world's leading colleges and universities with Christian perspectives and the relevance of Jesus. Learn more at www.veritas.org, with upcoming events and over 600 pieces of media on topics including science, philosophy, music, business, medicine, and more!
I am drawn to Dr. Lennox’s final comments. As someone recently facing some health concerns and coming back to God, I thought I’d wait until some healing took place to give a testimony of how Jesus impacted my life. Listening to the final few minutes of this lecture, I realize that I need to now be thankful and offer my testimony of trust, faith and thanks in Jesus for where I’m at today, and the mercy He has shown me even to bring me to this point. Thanks be to God in the highest.
Amen ❤
Yes, Amen.
Was that Dr Lennox at his best? Could there possibly be better? Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
This Man is a preacher!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Fantastic sermon!!!
It's my first time listening to him and I simply want to give glory to God for opening his eyes to the Truth.
❤
We are witnessing one of the greatest speakers of our time... BRAVO 👏
I've endured terribly traumatic events and situations ...His Grace has been there . Since receiving Christ , His grace has been there every single time .
I have been watching Mr. Lennox on RUclips for the last month or so, daily, and still cant get enough! I really enjoy listening to him speak!
CRAIG LEE interesting to hear you say what you commented! I have the same exact feelings. I wonder whom else listens or listened for at least a month straight as i.?
I'll pray for your awakening... because you are truly lost.
@@Zarcon2008 oh the irony
@@Zarcon2008 explain what doesn't makes sense about John lennox, I'll wait...
&&
Dr. Lennox, a true man of God who has the intellect, love, and good character to bring us closer to God
Amen to that ❤️
Agree
He is just so pleasant to listen to I have to share a comical metaphor I heard about him. Someone once stated he was like a snowman that came to life and it stays with me because I think its great.
It blows my mind how willingly you can believe anything as long as your parents tell you it's true
@@rhinorawkjocktorderky3006 what is truth?
I really wish I can meet up with him in person. 😢😢😢😢😢😢 He's really a fatherly figure who teaches me to be much more closer to God.
I hope you can meet Jesus and accept Him as your Lord and Savior. I think Dr. Lennox considers himself a guide to Jesus, who will draw you much closer to God.
You will
@@annbrucepineda8093 oo
If God let persons in heaven that refused
to believe He could cure our wrongs and pay our judgement for wrongs then heaven would be no better than earth.
Study scripture and pray for discernment. We have God's holy spirit as teacher and guide.
I've seen many of John's lectures on RUclips, and this one at Rice is one of the best. I feel very grateful for his testimony and way of clarifying and simplifying the Gospel. I've been a Christian for some time, but he helps me understand my walk better. I wish I had his eloquence and patience. When I hear the arrogance and hatefulness of some atheists, it's hard not to get angry. He never does but does a great job of answering their points with good humor and grace.
I used to get angry, but at this point, as close as we are to the end, I am very sad for them, and fearful for them, knowing their end if they continue to reject God's provision for them. :-(
perfect said. Thanks!
Yes, as stated by G. Black, it is the emotion control this man has, coupled with his erudite intellect - skilled delivery - absolute conviction in the face of gargantuan opposition that endears him to my vulnerable and fearful heart.
@@barbkitts759 I don't think God will destroy them on a point of principle, if their beliefs are sincerely held.
@@barbkitts759 🔥🔥kb 🔥k 🔥k 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. 🔥 N. 🔥🔥ñnn 🔥o 🔥N 🔥 🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥.
Amazing that this man's faith, philosophy & demeanor are not in the least bit affected by the contempt of skeptics.
+MichaelDisciple That's the power of God's Holy Spirit and the confidence a person has in knowing the truth. I completely agree. It is an amazing thing to behold.
We actually don’t know how much he is or isn’t affected…I highly doubt if asked that he would say he is not affected in the least.
He’s definitely stalwart though.
@@LarJgripYes, definitely.
But only love would compel anyone to debate the God haters.
Because he is a bigot
God bless you dear Professor Dr. Lennox. May you enjoy health & strength in pursuing your quest in propagating God‘s word. Christ is risen,- HE is risen indeed. Medizinalrat Mag.phil. Dr. Med Issam Elias / Austria ❤️By the way, my son Johannes once heard one of your lectures live in one of your visits to Austria & was simply stunned by the power of your speech. 🇦🇹
John lennox is a breath of fresh air. His talks are very well presented.
What a beautiful man....filled with the love of God 🙏
It is refreshing to listen to Mr. Lennox, thank you, you gave me confidence to face my friends who do not believe in God.
WOW, powerfully articulated; yet, so sweet and simple. YES 👍♥️
Gods word is Simply ! Jesus Summed up to be Very Simple Yet today! Love your Nabiors as yourself. Think about it! If we Love our Nabiors! We don't want to harm them! We don't want to Steal From him ! We don't want to take his Wife. Or anything else. Not Complicated is it. God Gave the choice of loving Him or Evil which is the Great Lie
What a nice man. Friendly, but passionate and intelligent. A good teacher.
God bless you, Mr. Lennox 🙏❤️ Love your speaches
"There can't be love without suffering." Never considered that.
So, there won't be love in heaven? Or will there be suffering in heaven?
It is amazing how Prof.John Lennox helped really me to realize the reality about the Lord Jesus Christ!
John Lennox, brilliant Christian apologist, able to put the arguments in simple terms for ordinary folk, yet able to brush off all the clever new atheists just as simply. God bless you Sir!
This is truly a blessing to hear in this Postmodernistic world we live in today. Mr. Lennox reminds me of Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer.
"Postmodernistic" meaning?.....
.... You have not the faintest idea since it is no more than a cognate of it-doesn't- like- it.
If you are an non believer watching this, God bless you and wish you all the best.
"My God My God! Why have you forsaken me?"
He even knew what it was to be abandoned by God. Yet he doesn't abandon us.
Praise the Lord. He loves us so.
The good thing about suffering is that God is with us and never leaves us. He brings eternal fruit from it. We must draw close to Him.
I like Mr. Lennox! I'll be learning more about him.
I tried to watch him everyday because his message is so relevant to our post-modern society today.
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. "
Hebrews11:1
I was born in another culture... Taiwan. It is predominantly Buddhist, along with a host of others like ancestor worship. My grandmother was a Buddhist for most of her life. When my dad was born, the doctor said he is going to die soon. My grandma went to the temples to pray, and sought after many religions. She tried everything except for Christianity. Nothing worked. My dad's body was left for dead on banana leaf. Finally she decided she must also give Jesus a try.
Lennox is a GENIUS!.
God bless you, Dr. Lennox! Thank you for standing up for your convictions, for standing up for the good and for Jesus!
Thank you, Sir Prof. John Lennox for the inspiration !!!
After praying to Jesus with tears, my dad's body recovered. To her, it was a miracle, and henceforth, she committed herself to Christ.
Listen.., I'm not claiming my faith is right and theirs is wrong. I'm simply choosing to believe what makes most sense to me. To each his own, I will respect that.
A truly gifted man of God.
I just sighed a "WOW" surely "he has the mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16).
Give me Jesus
This should be reposted on RUclips every now and then. Right on spreading the love and knowledge of God by Dr Lennox. ❤❤❤
"If we could see right now what God has done with those children that suffered innocently... we'd have no more questions."
You are a disgust to Humanity!!. So this is some kind of poker game your God is playing with us??. Use your head dumb ass.
@john oboczky It would be something if it wasn't fantasies.. You can fantasize all you want, That won't make it true.!!. A kind, Loving, faithful, honest God, don't you think he would have allowed someone who died to come back and explain to doubting Thomasses if it is real??. Why go through all the trouble of Sacrificing his only Son, (What a silly way to save the world??. Human Sacrifices??), for the lost sheep, but go through all the extent to be mysterious and hidden to the lost sheep??.
@@tomfoolish5202 You are indeed a foolish little man child shaking your tiny fist at god. Tell me how you would make beings that Have meaning or value, that are morally capable. That can do both evil and good and whose love would have meaning only because they are truly capable of evil . How would you forge Beings of any worth, if god was among us and we could not deny him. What would our love be worth to him or us, We would just be acknowledging reality, we would not be free to choose to accept god. That same can be said by suffering and pain in the world. If we lived existences free from all the suffering, pain and evil. We could not realize and value what is good and love. We would be little better then pets to god. Assuming god is real then it is he who gives you life and sustains it with everything you need. Yes you will eventually die and you will suffer through that life. But it is so that you can grow and mature, you can come to truly desire god. God wouldve of given you a free being with moral agency the choice of rejecting him or accepting him .
You say suffering and pain and such is evil but you really without god have no cause or reason to say so. You make to mistakes here. first you say why woould god allow someone who has died to come back and explain it all. Well if you know anything of christian doctrine and belief. JESUS DID IN FACT DO JUST THAT, he did in fact come back after he died. And you ask why would god need to sacrificing his son (( His son is god as well in human form, Jesus is god in human form which is not the same as god the father but equal to him )) That shows god came down to suffer with his creations to feel the misery and pain and suffering. To die a death we deserve for being so morally bankrupt and sinful, to show us he suffers as well with us. And through Jesus suffering on the cross, he shows his mercy and forgiveness for our rebellion. But more then that he shows he suffers with us his creation. And that he even allowed his creations to do that to him and cause him such suffering.
It brings us closer to god in more then just god forgiving us of our sins but allows us to forgive ourselves as well. We are no longer running from god trying to hide from him. But he showed us his forgiveness and the lengths he is willing to go to get you back, You and I are his creations, we are his property. And to see what sort of creation we would be our creator step back and so we would not be able to see him. So we would act according to our own hearts and natures. We would choose between living for him or for ourselves. God is also perfectly just and demands punishment for our sins. But he so loved us that he could not give us what we truly are deserving of, he gave us a another way. A way where he takes our punishment we deserve because we accept his lordship over us. We come back to him and lay in his palm instead of thinking we can keep running from him
To see and witness evil, pain and suffering, you can truly value the opposite. It is not taken for granted anymor god's love or mercy, not taken for granted all the good things he has done for you. You truly learn to value the goodness he has bestowed on you. We were not created to be lovers of ourselves and selfish beings. But beings who love our creator imperfectly as our creator loves us perfectly.
We need to have our faith in him challenged by pain and suffering to show that our faith and love have and worth. What is your faith and love worth to god the only things you can truly ever even think are gifts to good. If you are always standing in his prescene and can not deny him or his goodness. If me and you were in the same room. you would not be able to deny my existence as easily as you can when its over the internet on youtube. So your belief that I'm really has more value when its over the internet then if we were talking in person.
@@tomfoolish5202 Don't kid yourself. You are atheist purely for emotional reasons, not logical ones. Studies show the majority of atheists are the same way.
@@tomfoolish5202 You know NOT of which you speak so disrespectfully.
Could listen to this man all day and the truth is as simple as he tells it.
This man has a way of teaching that makes me wish I was his maths student, I would have definitely come out with flying colours. May God Almighty continue to use Him for His Kingdom
Me too. He speaks with such pathos. It is so obvious he really loves God.
Alan Sandage (winner of the Crawford prize in astronomy): "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing."
My philosophy professor once said, “If you knew what God knows, and if you loved what God loves, you would make the same choices He does.”
Having been shown a tiny glimpse, yes. Absolutely.
One of the funniest things about our reality is that "the ends justify the means" is the best and worst truth and falsehood.
Its only true for the blameless, aka God.
This was a great talk for you John. God had his eye on you & you care a great deal. In the questions & your answers, there was loads covered.
One day we will all face god. On that day, we will stand for our sins or Christ will. I know to much about what I have done to solo that one, how about you?
The fact that the Books of the Bible were written over a span of 1500 years by 40 different authors and YET carries an amazing cohesiveness and synergy within, while irrefutably predicting the birth, ministry and crucifixion of the Messiah - THROUGHOUT the OT mind you - is absolute proof of supreme design.
All I have to say to
God is Thank You.
John lennox is awsome when ever i need advice i look for his speeches. I love god and love you all lets kerp voicing gods word amen
Wow! What an amazing lecture!
Why blame God for the suffering now, when you can thank him later for an eternity of peace and comfort?
Absolutely brilliant
Excellent talk. Worth listening to twice even. Thank you Dr Lennox.
What an excellent speaker, god bless
"God incarnate and He died on the Cross. God so loved me, and He gave Himself for me!" Wonderful presentation Dr Lennox.
God bless you John Lennox, I pray that your input might help my father see and understand that Science and God are not mutually exclusive… he is also a mathematician yet argues the opposing view to you.
I won’t stop praying for him and I pray he reads your book and doesn’t get angry when I buy it for him.
Pg#3. After the passing of my son, I am immediately reminded of the subtleties of the story and how it applies to my situation. The main clincher came when I was anxious about my son's name "Ethan". I did a Google search and for the first time realized that Ethan is a name from the Bible, and that he is only recorded to have penned on chapter. That chapter is Psalm 89. I became anxious and started reading this...
What he said made a lot of sense.
not in my universe
Ely Ioannou
well that´s what I said, didn´t I. He obviously lives in his own universe. Poor deluded fatass...
peter renner Grow up. You don't have to agree with what he says, but at least have respect for his point of view.
Shikunisai
no, I respect him as a human being and I fight for his right to openly state his opinion. But I certainly don´t respect his opinion or his point of view since it is antiquated and nonsensical.
peter renner 'Poor deluded fatass...'
He speaks in prose. He unfolds an essay in real time off the top of his mind. It’s like watching Charlie Parker, or Art Tatum, or Bill Evans. It’s just an explosion of tightly organised creativity, originality and truth.
Without God Our world is ridiculous! I pray for all atheists around the globe 🙏
The world with God is also ridiculous. Praise be He has a sense of humour.
Paul Davies(British astrophysicist): "The laws [of physics] ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose"
Absolutely, the purpose for the universe is to "know the Creator of the Universe."
Pg#4. The chapter speaks of Ethan the Ezrahite who at one point loved God. Later on he laments what seemed like God's lack of remembrance of his promises. But finally at the end he once again thanked God for his goodness. When I read this, I just could not stop myself from weeping, because it speaks exactly of the very struggle I was going through with God for the past year. I felt that God did not remember me anymore, yet even with the passing away of my son, I now see that God was....
great story. just a story though.
Thank you for sharing here. Suffering without God Almighty i cannot face.
Seeing those we love suffer, i could not countenance without God's mercy. He too knows suffering beyond any we face. And yes, we go through it in hope of a purpose even in suffering. And of an end of all suffering.
Simply have to thank God for People.like John Lennox and Ravi Zacharias ,who show us that the greatest commandment Jesus stated "to Love your God with all your Heart, all your Mind And all your Soul" truly is the way to the truth that we all seek.
Just LOVE Mr. Lennox!!
"God created Hell, therefor he is a torturer." There is a large reason why this argument is NOT used at the professional level.
Suppose I created a device to bring justice to those whom were guilty of the law. Let's say, a prison. In this prison, if you break the law, you are sent there for the rest of your life. Now, lets say I give people a choice. I realize that to be morally true, I would need to offer a way out of the prison. So I offer myself. As long as people give me a form of declaration, detailing that they recognize my sacrifice. They will get to walk free, without going into prison. In other words, I am satisfying justice perfectly, while letting people go at the same time. (hopefully I haven't lost you yet)
Now, suppose that there are groups of people who CHOOSE to ignore the sacrifice laid out before them. By default, they are sent to the prison for the rest of their life. Why? Because justice needed to be satisfied perfectly. If I offer a way out of the prison, AND a decision to go there or not. Then how am I the torturer? I simply built the prison, and gave people the decision. Accept my form of salvation, or go to prison. If they choose the prison route, then THEY are the torturer. You cannot blame the prison builder for the choice of the people. Period.
Without a hell, you cannot satisfy the law. God HAS to have a place like this exist. Without it, he would not be perfectly GOOD or JUST.
The system you have described is exactly how the seriously misanthropic view existence and that is why they are often selected for religious leadership roles.
+DataWaveTaGo
So you have to forgo your sense of right and wrong to be atheist. That is what I called "deal with the Devil".
God didnt really creat hell. Hell is a place where is a total absence of God (therefore absence of mercy, love, light, warmth, respect, peace, grace, compassion, goodness, and anything else that God is) thats hell! Is like darkness is the absence of light. Who doesnt want to know God during the lifetime will go to a place where God is not present
Then why does Jesus describe Hell as a place of everlasting fire if there is no warmth?
Going to hell, is a free choice. Only the fallen Angel's have no choice.
Amazing speaker wow....love it❤️
Pg #6. What I have shared is only one of many other encounters of which I believe defies the chances of coincidence and is not irrational to believe there is a God behind this. The many times when I have cried out "sincerely" to God, and to witness events that speak exactly to my situation adds more reason. If it were a one time ordeal, or even a couple, I might be tempted to call it off. But having experienced these encounters with consistency, it would irrational for me not to believe.
Fair enough but what exactly do you suppose(whatever you mean by but have not the faintest idea) god to be.
Your problem is that you are an idolater and the injunction against images is not restrictd to graven images. Perfectly rational and reasonable toposit or suppose god *if you have some idea of what you are*calling* god, but, as you are about to demonstrate......
........
..... You don't.
Dr Lenox, you are very right. God gave us life to dealt with. When we say Life, everything is there. Everything!!! and humans gradually knew what are these things like the whole science, it is from God! Life has ups and downs that if there is no downs its not life anymore. Where there is pleasure there is sufferings, all has opposite.
Very deep idea,yes you are another hero in Christian faith
Suffering creates empathy. We suffer so that we learn to share in suffering.
If we could not feel pain. Then we could morally decline.
+Danny Mars this is nonsensical word salad. We learn to share in suffering. Do you make this shit up as you go along??
+Danny Mars Suffering does not create empathy. Where did you get this from? Why would we have bullies even in schools if suffering creates empathy? Do you honestly think that bullies don't know that they are hurting their victims? Do you honestly believe that they don't enjoy seeing their victims cower in fear in their presence? That is a completely false statement, not at all grounded in reality.
Its not the bully who Iis suffering.. and after being bullied the victim will have a stronger urge to end bullying.. after experiencing and knowing the pain of being bullied.. you will have something to relate to when someone else is being bullied.. but when you see someone going through the same thing you went through you might be able to help them or at least talk them through it.
Not so sure empathy is what I should have said.
EXCELLENT !!!❤
I believe that God created us with free will because he wanted to be loved freely and not forcefully. I think that anyone with any light in them would understand and want the same thing.
Arno Penzias (Nobel prize in physics): "Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say 'supernatural') plan."
I’d disagree on this aspect: the universe was created out of “ substance”- the Word. “ And God said….” Jesus informed us that the words He speaks are spirit ( substance) and life. 😌
@@lindawheatley4263
You missed the point Linda, the quote makes reference to astronomy not the New Testament.
Arno acknowledges creation but before God spoke the word time/space & matter in fact did not exist.
@@LarJgrip , got it! Thanx for clarity.
John O'Keefe (astronomer at NASA): "We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted, cherished group of creatures.. .. If the Universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in."
7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
8 "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him
deliver him, since he delights in him."
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks
to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
Powerful and relevant.
Only God could fix this world! So He Came Himself
John Lennox is great
To me , I have faith in God & Mr. Lennox's lectures. For me the Commandments have a two fold platform. One is it should be evident that God doesn't want the suffering & pain His children cause themselves in creating pain for their brothers & sisters by murder, theft, coveting jealously, creating false gods in our own minds which sully the real Creator , Adultery , blasphemy , Keep Sunday Holy, honor your mother & father, & bearing false witness are meant to be kept on a societal relationship that protects the Soul of every human being from themselves. When we do that their is retribution here on earth as we diminish ourselves in adultery, as liars, murderers, thieves,greed of coveting, idols such as serving Satan, not honoring mom & dad, Not keeping His days Holy, . On another level, What father or mother in the complete authority of Our Father in Heaven could not recognize the sin of what one brother could do another with evil intent while he wants us to deal in compassion in the Ethos & Pathos of man. We failed God but He never failed us & in fact took the extra step through Jesus Christ & the following indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Lenoxx " Did God make any provisions if things wrong." The truth is we made God into the images that we created in our own minds in believing that we are to good to die in His Grace despite the breaking of the rules He made to protect ourselves & our fellow humans since we all missed sinless life . When Christ in dying said "It is Finished" I was as guilty as Hitler until He died for me because I wanted every Nazi & Draconian dictators dead.
My mentor
Thank you
Yea, real academic and authoritative material there. I'm very impressed.
Absolutely, academic, authoritative, personal and spiritual.
excellent
Now I know why all those hit men in mafia movies make the sign of the cross after bumping someone off. Merit doesn't matter. These guys are going straight to heaven.
The brilliance of Professor Lennox is so obviously Divinely inspired.
“Righteousness by faith... We surrender, repent, confess and by faith claim Christ as our Saviour. In that very instant we are accepted as a child of God. Our sin is remitted; we are accounted righteous; we are justified before God. This is righteousness by faith... the ONLY war that is won by surrender.”
Truth, absolute truth exists; it even speaks to us. What matters is whether we will listen to what it is saying.
This magnificent speaker has mastered the art of sophistry.
Frank Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics): "When I began my career as a cosmologist, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics."
Superb
Thank you
John is an inspiration
I am a believer in Jesus christ my Lord and Savior who is alive and coming soon.
[P1] I love science and everyday I trust in it to perform many things in life. However, there are two things I believe we can both agree on. 1) Science is prone to error. This is true historically and presently as new books are being rewritten. 2) Science is limited (Example, there is no way to prove we have explored even 1% of all there is to know). Science is incapable of capturing the thoughts and intents of people, the events surrounding their life, or whether a prayer is answered.
God came to this world to speak the truth
🔥🔥🔥 yep buying the book!!
I kept putting off watching this one because I knew -- thought I knew -- he would just say the same ol' company line. Wrong. He really spoke to me.
I love you mr. lennox
I have not seen God, I have not seen Jesus ,...but....I love Them ,Pray to Them and believe in Them.........................................THAT IS THE POWER TO BELIEVE.
God is able to prevent suffering but not willing to. God created the possibility of pain to be the consequence for every sinful or unloving action. The suffering we experience is our steadfast ignorance of these consequences
Thanks
Question is not "what kind of God would allow so much suffering in the world?" but "what kind of God would allow so much happiness, health, prosperity, blessings and abundance in the world"? The natural state of a sinful world is suffering,pain, fear, uncertainty, all as consequence of the original sin.
And if the world had no problems, then there would be no point of life. Life is basically a giant test, you have to solve your own problems. You can't just blame it on god for not doing what you wish for. The world doesn't revolve around Mr. Atheist Jones.
+patriotgregory why do you think it is acceptable/logical/appropriate/relevant for any of us to be responsible for the mistakes made by Adam and Eve? Would you send a child to prison for a crime committed by his parents?
Michael Dennis We would have done the same mistake they did had we been in the Garden. Regardless however, we inherit the sinful nature which is the consequence of their sin, and there is nothing we can do about it other than believe in the Work of Redemption of Jesus Christ on the cross.
I love when be gets to the Yahshua haMaschiach part 💕💚💕💛💕💚💗
...We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln
1863
Suffering?WOW!I know that One,Knowing IT Now!Praying and having Faith but Damn near Worn Out!Many are Too these Days!God I know Life IS Good but a Lot of Our Suffering IS a Result of Ourselves and OTHERS!I pray This Changes for the Better SOON!
Thank you very much professor Lennox for being an such a warrior of God ! Keep doing the amazing work. I am with you to ! Much love :) Xxxx
This is excellent
“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.” Nobel Laureate
There are many people who have experienced some of the most horrible experiences of pain, and what one might consider bad luck, but still have come to embrace and love God. For example Nick Vujicic who was born without arms or legs, and Joni Earekson Tata who was paralyzed from the shoulders down. If pain and suffering is proof that God if existing is terrible, then these folks certainly have more qualification to state that fact. But on the other hand they thank God despite these tragedies
I met Christ in 1989 and have been preaching the Gospel ever since. I have read thousands of books, listened to thousands of preachers, scientific works, and atheists. I have studied my faith from every angle possible, and even intently listened to Dawkins and Hitchens with an honest intent if that I could be convinced there was no God and Christ was not who He said He was, I would rethink everything. experienced
I am still convinced the Bible is the Word of God, and Jesus Christ is LORD!
I have no desire to deconvert you. You have had experiences in your life which have convinced you that not only there is a god, but he takes a personal interest in you. The most important thing is that this faith gives you purpose, support and hope in your life. Frankly, it doesn't really matter if it's true or not. Because if there is only instant oblivion after death, you won't know you were wrong. However, if there IS a heaven, you will be enjoying eternal happiness. A win-win situation!
The most important thing is the truth. It certainly does matter if the basis of your faith is true or false ; and it’s the worst and most disingenuous kind of faith that hedges its bets : that’s called Pascals Wager. Indeed, believing in Christianity without living out its very hard doctrine won’t get you a free pass on judgement day either !