What is TRUTH? | Practical Wisdom Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In this thought-provoking discussion with Samuel Marusca, John Lennox shares his profound insights about truth, science and faith, blending his profound knowledge of mathematics and science with his unwavering faith in God.
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SUMMARY:
3:11: 📚 John Lennox discusses the concept of truth, challenging the idea that science is the only way to truth and emphasizing that truth is ultimately a person, Jesus Christ.
8:40: 🤔 Reason and revelation are not in opposition, but rather work together to understand the truth about God.
13:58: 📚 Lennox discusses the importance of defending the faith and the different categories of evidence.
20:53: 🤔 Faith is not blind and requires evidence; moral and truth relativism are not practical; Big Bang theory confirms the idea of a beginning.
27:56: 🌍 Lennox suggests that science is influenced by Aristotle's ideas of the eternity of the universe hindering the consideration of the biblical worldview of the beginning of the universe.
35:48: 📚 Lennox discusses the relationship between biology, evolution, and atheism, highlighting that atheism cannot be logically deduced from biology and that the neo-Darwinian synthesis is now being challenged within the scientific community.
42:10: 🌌 Lennox discusses the Aristotelian view of the universe and the concept of multiple dimensions, suggesting that there may be another dimension beyond death.
53:07: 📚 There are clues in nature and the human genome that suggest the existence of an intelligent mind behind them.
56:27: 🤔 The debate between science and God is still relevant, but there is a shift towards focusing on meaning and identity; Christians should engage with other worldviews and religions.
1:04:02: 💡 The importance of defending and bringing meaning into people's lives through intellectual credibility and moral effects is crucial for universities and Christians.
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God bless this man! He has a genuine enthusiasm that is contagious. I'm delighted to find myself smiling while listening.
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Me too ❤
Because he's saying the things you want to hear, he's confirming what you want to believe, if he talked against your position you would say he was a fool.
@@Shytot-1 I made no mention of the content of his speech but only his behavior.
@@ceddebruxelles So you don't agree that the content is pure garbage, then you must have already been captured, I'm sorry about that.
Lennox has fruits of the Spirit. Love joy peace patients gentleness goodness faith kindness self-control
Wisdom, insight and prudence too..
Agreed
3:11: 📚 John Lennox discusses the concept of truth, challenging the idea that science is the only way to truth and emphasizing that truth is ultimately a person, Jesus Christ.
8:40: 🤔 Reason and revelation are not in opposition, but rather work together to understand the truth about God.
13:58: 📚 John Lennox discusses the importance of defending the faith and the different categories of evidence.
20:53: 🤔 Faith is not blind and requires evidence; moral and truth relativism are not practical; Big Bang theory confirms the idea of a beginning.
27:56: 🌍 The speaker suggests that science is influenced by Aristotle's ideas of the eternity of the universe hindering the consideration of the biblical worldview of the beginning of the universe.
35:48: 📚 The speaker discusses the relationship between biology, evolution, and atheism, highlighting that atheism cannot be logically deduced from biology and that the neo-Darwinian synthesis is now being challenged within the scientific community.
42:10: 🌌 The speaker discusses the Aristotelian view of the universe and the concept of multiple dimensions, suggesting that there may be another dimension beyond death.
53:07: 📚 There are clues in nature and the human genome that suggest the existence of an intelligent mind behind them.
56:27: 🤔 The debate between science and God is still relevant, but there is a shift towards focusing on meaning and identity; Christians should engage with other worldviews and religions.
1:04:02: 💡 The importance of defending and bringing meaning into people's lives through intellectual credibility and moral effects is crucial for universities and Christians.
Recap by Tammy AI
Thanks for the recap!
Nothing fails like prayer in a children's hospital.
What is moral or ethical about suggesting people believing they hear the voice of god, or understand the mind of a deity by the bible?
Has anyone, ever, seen a deity do anything outside of fiction? Don't you think if a deity exits & everyone is not aware of it, then the deity title is being fudged a tad bit? The Christians slapped their books on the OT, & the Mormons glued theirs on to them both.
Professor John Lennox is a showman, of the lord Monkton, God of the gaps, sophistry kind.
Any deity outside of fiction which is unknown to everyone is bearing witness to fudging the deity scam, producing theater in an immoral or unethical space.
It was secular law & order ending the witch-burning & inquisitions of those with special relationships with fiction.
Christians don't have any quality-control, so we vote to govern away from those proposing we travel best with one foot in fantasyland. He preaches to the choir & all he has to do is be cheerful, name drop, & sell books. Freud wrote the antidote to Christianity is literacy. Gods, outside of fiction, have a perfect record of doing nothing, so we have a saying: God helps those helping themselves. Even Jesus, The Nailed, knows faith is worthless if you can't move mountains by voice-command.
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1:05:55 🙊The end of religious blabbering.
You must be joking with us, god is a given when you give ultimate questions a pass.
Give us a break, please.
Those with one foot in fantasyland authorize themselves to weigh-in on whatnot as if Earth had gravity-free zones & magic.
The religious don't have ears to hear, the books of God are filled with faith & prayers:
Nothing fails like prayers in a children's hospital, the religious are only into convincing themselves.
Rabbi Podium Jockey should not take himself so seriously, nobody should.
The religious have no quality-controls.
God knows, god helps those helping themselves is a saying because gods have a perfect record of nothing doing outside of fiction. One might expect a deity to make itself known to everyone without work performed in interpretations of old literature by guys like our verbose podium jockey. Who in their right mind promotes travel as if best done with one foot in fantasyland vocabulary. Freud wrote the antidote to Christianity is literacy. Nothing fails like prayer in a children's hospital, and these wolves in sheep's clothing advocate prayer & faith verbiage. Even Jesus Christ said faith was worthless if you can't move mountains by issuing voice commands.
What is moral or ethical about suggestions of travel with one foot in some religious fantasyland?
A house divided cannot stand.
We vote because Christians have no quality-controls, & we desire those governing not making suggestions travel is best done with one foot in someone's fantasyland.
'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.''
Come, let us worship Jesus.
Let us all forget it was secular law & order ending the inquisitions & witch-killings.
Let us forget we have a saying: God helps those helping themselves, because gods have a perfect record of doing nothing.
Let us ignore nothing fails like prayer in a children's hospital.
Let us ignore a wicked generation seeks signs.
Theologians grant the titles to each other without a deity certification.
A deity unable to be acknowledged by everyone is a forgery based on literature.
Oppression builds character among the dominated.
Who do you think nailed the king of the Jews, when Imperial Rome controlled temples & publications?
Just for the fun of it, have their Messiah say render to Caesar?
My sheep hear my voice.
Think not I come with peace, but sword.
The literate of the age; built religions & made propaganda, devalued the currency, too.
Marvel not I say you are all gods, and so on & so on.
Faith is a fantasyland term, & the Christians hate to hear it.
If faith had any value, then you could move mountains by voice-command.
We know there is no god outside of fiction.
Freud wrote the antidote to Christianity is literacy.
The Christians slapped their books on the Old Testament, & the Mormons glued theirs on to them both, thus proving Christians lack quality-control.
Think not I come with peace, but sword.
I come to divide this that and the other thing, & I give you tax exempt status.
When you realize the Gospels are mythology based on Greek epics - Dr. Dennis MacDonald
A pleasure to listen this podcast.
wisdom's are superior tools Every human has. but we choose intelligence/cleverness . that's part of all lifeforms, lower animals too.
GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF THROUGH JESUS, THE BIBLE, AND THE CREATION- HIS CREATED ORDER BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE THROUGH JESUS WHO IS THE WORD, IS TRUTH AND WHO IS LIFE.
TRUTH IS A PERSON
Truth is a fruit.
If you deny Gid the Creator , then you also deny science
God is the very source of science
Rubbish!
@cswelsh6740 "God is the very source of science." True ...
This was the opinion of Galileo Galilei, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, James Maxwell, Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal and Louis Pasteur. Of the Nobelists in Science over 60 % believe in intelligent design (statistics 1900-2000).
Also Nikolaus Kopernikus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, Joseph Priestley, James Clerk Maxwell, Gregor Mendel (founder of modern genetics), Lord Kelvin and Albert Einstein.
In addition, in believers there were also many pioneers of Quantum Physics: Werner Heisenberg, Max Plank, Erwin Schrödinger, James Jeans, Louis de Broglie, Wolfgang Pauli and Arthur Eddington.
Also the scientists of our era like the astrophysicists Paul Davies, Simon Conway Morris (professor of evolutive paleobiology at Cambridge), Alasdair Coles (professor of neuro-immunology at Cambridge), John Polkinghorne (ex professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge, Russell Stannard, Freeman Dyson ... and Francis Collins who led the team of 2,400 international scientists in the Human Genome -project and was an atheist, until he in the age of 27 became a Christian.
Natural sciences started to decline only after Charles Darwin 10 years from the publication of his "Origin of Species" (in 1859) got support of the majority, mainly for political reasons.
@@gladishilton1943Genesis 1:3 KJV
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
..."big bang"... also making sound waves in water to make light is scientifically called: "sonoluminescence".
Genesis 2:7 KJV
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
...many scientists (Harari, Kaku, Neil deGrasse, etc.), claim we're made of "stardust". Dust is dust.
Numbers 12:14 KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
...sounds like quarantine, after Miriam got leprosy (biblical C19).
Luke 22:44 KJV
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
...sweating blood is medically/scientifically called: "hematidrosis".
These are some examples I can think of off the top of my head, from the Holy Bible.
@@gladishilton1943 What is the source?
@@tomgreene1843 Science is not "sourced". It's an activity we humans have identified and refined and become quite good at over the years, for investigating the Universe and trying to verifiably understand its nature and how it works.
Truth is a word, and it means reality accurately expressed. There, that did not take over an hour.
You clearly didn't understand a word he was saying ignorance is not bliss!
Can Lennox define God? I think not. Describing God is not what I mean. The trouble with most religious devotees is that their concept of God is either wrong or incomplete. That includes this Lennox. Quoting the Bible is also of no use. You can find anything you like in the Bible, but that will not convince those except the gullible.
and what has your not believing done for you? To each His own
@@Daivy07 I did not say that I do not believe in God. But you have to explain in detail what you mean by God.
@@Daivy07 Does your non-belief in Santa improve your life? Some of us wouldn't even seriously ask questions like that. _Instead, we value truth._ That means we're unwilling to believe ideas we don't know are true. Well...we don't know "god(s) exist" is true. (We don't have reasonable evidence of it.)
So nobody should care whether non-belief in Santa or gods improves our lives, _we should just care about whether we know if either idea is truth._ And we don't, so non-belief is the rational position.
@@cynic150 Don't go all Jordan Peterson on us.
* "god" is defined in the dictionary, if you honestly don't know what the word means.
* "God" (capital G, proper name of the god in the Bible) is defined somewhat more clearly
* we don't have evidence gods exist (including God). So we don't know they exist and shouldn't believe in them.
@@majm9309 Not the dictionary meaning!
🙏🙏 so beautiful 😎👍👍
I was ten and about to be run over by a train.I called out to God to Help me and was instantly lifted up by my armpits and was stood up off of the tracks just as the train swept past.I know God is real and Alive because I am still alive.He Lives and hears us in our time of need.Praise God and thank you Jesus.And I thank my Mother for teaching me about Jesus when I was a small child.I knew I was going to be ran over and the words out of my mouth was God Help me.And He did.
Even if you don't call Him, He saves. I myself is a living testimony of how God saved me from an accident😭😭🤚🤚🤚☝️☝️Praise the Lord ❤️❤️🙏
Indeed GOD is alive and patient with us!❤
Überall in der Schöpfung zeigt sich Gottes Liebe, ER Ist, indessen kam er als Mensch auf unsere Welt, Er erhört Gebet. Darüber freue ich mich.
Shame he doesn't seem to care about all those millions of children that die every year from cancer and other diseases or, in fact, all the children get that run over or killed in car crashes. A mum, dad and daughters, 4 and 9, among crash dead in England only last Sunday 20th July 2024. Where was god then?
Passed. “Past” refers to time before the present. “ Passed “ refers to motion in time or space. All past tense suffixes “ ed”=>/t/if the final sound of the verb is an unvoiced consonant = f,k,p,s,x puffed, baked,flipped,missed, fixed. Only “t” is excepted as in “ painted”, “ planted”, “ wanted” where “ ed” = /id/.
When I was 8 in 1963, walking to catch a bus to school, I was hit in the back by an abusive person. I blacked out. When I awoke, the bus driver was standing over me. He had seen the attack and parked the bus. He said to my abuser, "It's a good thing for you she woke up!" I could hardly breathe. All the breathing sacks in my lungs felt shattered. He helped me onto the bus and when we got to school, he took me to the school nurse, who made me lie down. The doctor and the police were called. Since it was a Catholic school, the priest was called, too. He was out visiting other sick and dying people. The doctor came first. He said there was nothing he could do for me. He said my lungs were filling with blood and I was only breathing with the very top of my lungs. It had felt like my lungs were ripped inside with shards of cut glass, but as the blood filled them, they felt hot and heavy, and the pain went away where no air could get through the cuts the blow had shattered through my alveoli. Two nuns stayed with me, comforting me. Two policemen came and said they would arrest the person who did this to me as soon as I would go to Heaven. Finally, the priest came and gave me Jesus in Holy Communion. Then he anointed me with the Sacrament of Extreme Unction. I felt the Holy Spirit in the blessed oil like a golden, glowing warmth that flowed from my forehead down into my lungs. As the warmth flowed from the top of my lungs to the bottom, I felt them instantly heal. Then I fell immediately asleep. When I awoke, it was almost time to go home. The nuns had a hot lunch for me to eat. The police and the doctor had left, since I had been miraculously healed. Praise God! This happened in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania. Jesus, God the Son, is really Who He said He is, and He still lives and works today
Thank you for sharing this amazing testimony 🙌🩵
Once I came across John Lennox on youtube, I can't stop listening to his very thought-provoking discussions.
Thank you, he's a very humble man of faith. I've prepared another interview with him on AI which I hope to publish in November.
He needs some counselling from a belief system abuse psychotherapist. Most Christian apologists need such real ✔️ checks. G'day.
@Practical.Wisdom No he's not. He must know that most of what he says is outright wrong and designed to deceive.
@@redmatters9318Open your mind, open your heart, truth is……
@rdekemper Try to open the door to your jail cell and think for yourself.. you are born you live for a short while then you die...that's it! While you're alive , stay strong, help others and try to do good for society and the planet. Open your mind to Tinkum Olam. G'day 🇦🇺 🪃 Australia.
It amazes me how the most intelligent people can explain complex things in the most efficient, simple ways. Thomas Sowell is another gifted mind.
Indeed, John Lennox, Thomas Sowell, David Berlinski, Keith Ward, Gary Habermas and many others are powerful resources.
like that under all the particles and subparticles discovered by the scientific method, there is Jesus just being the Truth?
Why does the Trinity not appear in the Bible?peace
There's a famous quote from Einstein that I have on a plack when he said, "if you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it well enough."
You must be joking with us, god is a given when you give ultimate questions a pass.
Give us a break, please.
Those with one foot in fantasyland authorize themselves to weigh-in on whatnot as if Earth had gravity-free zones & magic.
The religious don't have ears to hear, the books of God are filled with faith & prayers:
Nothing fails like prayers in a children's hospital, the religious are only into convincing themselves.
Rabbi Podium Jockey should not take himself so seriously, nobody should.
The religious have no quality-controls.
God knows, god helps those helping themselves is a saying because gods have a perfect record of nothing doing outside of fiction. One might expect a deity to make itself known to everyone without work performed in interpretations of old literature by guys like our verbose podium jockey. Who in their right mind promotes travel as if best done with one foot in fantasyland vocabulary. Freud wrote the antidote to Christianity is literacy. Nothing fails like prayer in a children's hospital, and these wolves in sheep's clothing advocate prayer & faith verbiage. Even Jesus Christ said faith was worthless if you can't move mountains by issuing voice commands.
What is moral or ethical about suggestions of travel with one foot in some religious fantasyland?
A house divided cannot stand.
We vote because Christians have no quality-controls, & we desire those governing not making suggestions travel is best done with one foot in someone's fantasyland.
'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.''
Come, let us worship Jesus.
Let us all forget it was secular law & order ending the inquisitions & witch-killings.
Let us forget we have a saying: God helps those helping themselves, because gods have a perfect record of doing nothing.
Let us ignore nothing fails like prayer in a children's hospital.
Let us ignore a wicked generation seeks signs.
Theologians grant the titles to each other without a deity certification.
A deity unable to be acknowledged by everyone is a forgery based on literature.
Oppression builds character among the dominated.
Who do you think nailed the king of the Jews, when Imperial Rome controlled temples & publications?
Just for the fun of it, have their Messiah say render to Caesar?
My sheep hear my voice.
Think not I come with peace, but sword.
The literate of the age; built religions & made propaganda, devalued the currency, too.
Marvel not I say you are all gods, and so on & so on.
Faith is a fantasyland term, & the Christians hate to hear it.
If faith had any value, then you could move mountains by voice-command.
We know there is no god outside of fiction.
Freud wrote the antidote to Christianity is literacy.
The Christians slapped their books on the Old Testament, & the Mormons glued theirs on to them both, thus proving Christians lack quality-control.
Think not I come with peace, but sword.
I come to divide this that and the other thing, & I give you tax exempt status.
When you realize the Gospels are mythology based on Greek epics - Dr. Dennis MacDonald
Humility brings great learning and wisdom. Thank you Yeshua for John Lennox.
Amen
Amen brother Amen. Without humility you can’t see truth/wisdom absolutely beyond yourself, it is because God made everything this way and is the ultimate psychologist and sooo beyond human psychology and he is the ultimate in every other field as well. The holy spirit lives in my heart, thank you Jesus, Jesus lives
Amen
Am I the only one who has to rewind every once in a while to catch up with his logic. Brilliant.
And you know his logic actually makes sense because his a briallian mathematician
NOOOOOO! I'm constantly doing it to take notes and write down books and authors.
@@odzychris7996 hahaha
heck, yeah
No don't worry! I just listen to it over and over!
Truth is a Person. Profound revelation. I love it. ❤
I had never heard that truth is a person❣️
I could cry at how wonderful this made me feel. I’m a bit of a ditz but I still I understood the concepts and complex words in their contexts! Hooray for teachers that actually teach 🙏🏾😭
My admiration for Prof Lennox is without boundaries. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, intellect and WISDOM with us.
Thank you for your kind comment! I read some of the comments to John and he was very happy to see people found this conversation helpful!
Lennox is unable to distinguish between reality and fairy tales!
He lacks proper knowledge!
He does not understand science!
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1) I admire the KNOWLEDGE and WISDOM of the GREATEST, WISEST and ONLY PERFECT MAN who ever existed here on earth -- the LORD JESUS CHRIST/SON OF GOD (Matt. 1:18, Mark 1:1, John 10:36)/MAN (John 8:40)/FLESH AND BONES (Luke 24:39) and won't give my admiration to anyone less.
2) Whatever admiration given to imperfect human beings here on earth won't make, even one step closer to SALVATION/ETERNAL LIFE in the KINGDOM OF GOD.
3) But giving the ADMIRATION and PRAISES to the LORD JESUS CHRIST/SON OF GOD for the TRUTH he revealed which are all written in the HOLY BIBLE (KJV) would make ALL THE WAY to SALVATION/ETERNAL LIFE in the KINGDOM OF GOD/FATHER (John 14:6).
Religion is bullshit
@@Practical.Wisdom
What do you mean? I can prove logically God is an ABSOLUTE he logically exists. It is simple to demonstrate a false scientific hypothesis. If I demonstrate a hypothesis is A is B, ILLOGICAL IMPOSSIBLE CONTRADICTION, it is an ABSOLUTE FALSE SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS. For example, the ONTOLOGICAL EPISTEMOLOGY ARGUMENT
A is B
A is non conscious non intelligent non being non moral non legal non just caused the A is B illogical impossible contradiction effect of
B your conscious intelligent being moral legal and just
This is an ABSOLUTE FALSE SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS never evidenced in nature or labs but
A isn't B the law of non contradiction evidenced in nature and labs all day long
A law of abiogenesis caused the effect of
A law of abiogenesis
A is A
B law of biogenesis causes the logical non contradiction effect of
B law of biogenesis
B is B
This is an ABSOLUTE a true scientific hypothesis A isn't B. Simple eh bro. I will debate anyone and end the argument in mere minutes.😅😊
When someone loves to question and has the courage to use the brain, you feel often very much like an alien. A lot of Christians are so scared to combine faith with science. I love to listen to John Lennox. It's challenging because I didn't go to university. But even with my 70 years it makes me hungry for more to learn. 🙂 Thank you for the Video!
John Lennox no doubt is the C.S. Lewis of our time.
Another bourgeois Christian windbag.
was lewis also a mason who flashes the signs non stop? wont shock me ...they all are , Gods actual servants , were in the streets doing all the work he commanded and not even 1 soul knows about it , these guys are the wolves in wool Jesus warned about , even though i admit they are good at making atheism look weak , its apart of their deception , they are most interested in winning your heart so you follow their doctrine which leads to hell .... take your tips from them to fight atheism , go for it , stay away from their christian doctrine ....its always a lukewarm gospel of some truths and many lies.
He is a C S Lewis's student, after all
Yes indeed. But he also brings certain skills to the table that Lewis couldn't. He has helped me enormously with my thinking and faith..
@@mcmanustony no I don't brother
This very important interview really opened my mind and further strengthened my faith in GOD. Also arouse my interests to read Prof. Lennox's books after C.S. Lewis.
Wow. Prof. John Lennox is one of the greatest minds today, great interview!
Please tell me how his mind is great? 🤔
@nathanngumi8467. Surely you are being ironic. This guy is a buffoon.
You must question your own mind for that answer.@@mattikaronen7728
He is great bcs he confirms yr presuppositions?
@@awoj51 how soo? Please elaborate..
Would love to meet Profesor Lennox and have a conversation with him. Great Interview! God bless you both.
Amen! I would never want to Curse him for having a conversation with me. It would be like me having a conversation with a rock😅😂
Agreed.
Lennox interviews/debates never disappoint!
Funny he disappointed me the first time i watched and that was the last time , claims of faith are not science.
Lennox is up their with Stephen hawking as a defiler of science and leading science down the path of superstition and ignorance.
Smug and self-satisfied windbag.
He makes so many great points
@@Bones151 No he doesn't, he demonstrates how apologists always use the same nonsense arguments and how many ignorant fools who can't or won't think for themselves are happy to swallow them.
@cliveadams7629 so because you disagree your supposedly more intelligent. That's a very interesting assumption. 🤔 it's always about intelligents yet Dr. Lennox is a Mathematician, and college professor. Very good observation on your part 👏👏👏
John Lennox is absolutely one of the best speakers in explaining in layman terms. Most of us are not scientists or a professor. I love it he is a Christian and put it all together with science. A great man.
Really? I am amazed anyone takes him seriously. He literally doesn't explain anything, just preaching.
Maybe there are issues with your listening and attention skills🙏@@aleksandarlikic7460
My 43 years mother of five children, gave birth to me in a very precarious situation being at home. At last in maternity, I was delivered by c-section after a failed forceps procedure in 1953. I thank God for being alive because my parents, if they weren't Christians, probably would have decided on an abortion. The moral Christian view is why I live today with faith in Jesus Christ, Who first suffered for me before my own individual suffering, with a meaning for eternal life. I love God and I believe He loves me as mankind he died for. I have decided to accept Jesus, repudiate sin but love the sinner.
Managerial Truth (joke) - A man flying in a hot air balloon realizes he’s lost. He spots a man below and shouts, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I’d meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The man below replies, “Yes. You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above the ground. You’re at 40 degrees latitude and 58 degrees longitude.” The balloonist says, “You must be a manager.” The man replies, “I am! How did you know?” The balloonist says, “Everything you told me is technically correct, but it’s of no use to anyone.” The manager retorts, “You must be an engineer.” The balloonist says, “I am! How did you know?” The manager replies, “Well, you don’t know where you are or where you’re going, but you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in the same position you were before we met, but now it’s my fault!”
Loved this. Prof Lennox was so relaxed, eloquent and full of wisdom. I could listen to him for hours.
I guess if I am relaxed and eloquent that makes whatever made up stuff I come up with real and the truth
In his nike air max.
How does launching a strawman attack on him advance the conversation?
@@ntsokolomemani3874Nice gotcha.
I feel the same listening to Sam Harris.
OMG, it is very refreshing analysis about Truth and Christianity. Thanks for sharing it!
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Practical wisdom thank you for having Dr. Lennox as your guest.
Dr. John Lennox is fearlessly real and bold.
Thank God.
John, I love your wisdom and your soul. The problem with so many doubters is the question of suffering. This is the unanswerable question…I’m glad you brought this up at the end of your talk. I’d like to hear much much more about this because I think it holds so many people back.
To answer the doubters on suffering is an easy one ,
I believe suffering is a consquence of sin, as the Catholic church teaches.
I love listening and learning from John Lennox!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻♥️♥️
Thank you for your interest! Stay tuned for my upcoming Practical Wisdom Conference with John scheduled to be published here in December.
This is how a discussion should be. Both thinkers were on a quest for truth. No insults, no slurs and no disrespect. Kudos.
God bless and keep you and yours in good health and safety to teach us these wonderful truths. We live in the Uk and hope to visit NI for the first time this weekend. Our son who is training to be a Minister of God’s Word is engaged to a girl from there. Thank you for teaching us the Truth of God’s Word !🙏👍🏽
Sir John lennox thank you for speaking the truth because so many people are afraid of speaking the truth, sir John lennox GOD will continue to bless you in everything
What a great man full of wisdom grace and humility. Thank you dear Prof Lennox. Watching from Birmingham, Brian
2:02 "We have this idea in contemporary culture that there's only one way to truth... that is science". Simply not true. Never was true, as in some of the art and writing post Newton where people were trying to establish subliminal and instinctive feelings based truth. Certainly never held by top level scientists. Currently widely rejected by post truth and anti-science cultural developments across the world from anti-vaccination in Northern Nigeria and Pakistan to USA, even Michael Gove in UK who "Had enough of experts". A rather small proportion of people, whether they admit it or not, hold science as the only way to truth
Perhaps the most alluring and fascinating explanations to reality after two millenia, comes forth from the symbolism inherent to Ascencion and Pentecost: the role of the Holy Spirit . Whenever possible I would love to hear what Professor Lennox may have to say around this particular point. I couldn't stop privately and enthusiastically clap after the interview finished.
Atheist scientists always ask the believers “is there any evidence for God ?” I say:God is the only God among all the other gods, who came down to save His creation by going to the cross , that is the evidence and all the things that he did for his Creation.
Science is just the discovery of how God does things.
Shame the Bible has zero science.
Guess God is testing us.
Well that’s more than enough reason to subscribe! That was a fascinating interview! It must’ve been gratifying to get such high praise from John Lennox!
Well done! 👍
John lennox is one of the greatest gift for this generation, remain bless
I thoroughly enjoyed this so much. I love Dr Lenox, and the interviewer was very respectful.
I love this man. He truly uses his intellect to glorify God who bestowed it to him. His humility is astonishing. God bless him.
Glad you enjoyed it! Stay tuned for my next episode with John on AI.
Thank you sir... for helping me to understand God's wonderful creation...
It was wonderful to hear Mr Lennox say " this is the best interview I have ever done " . I have watched countless interviews/debates involving John Lennox , and I have never seen his demeanor so relaxed . One can see that he is truly enjoying himself in this interview .. Your smile after hearing him say this shows that his comment was not scripted . It must of felt fantastic .. I have liked & subscribed Sir ...
Same here :-)
You can tell he's brilliant, and he loves God the Creator and His Word, such a great man, God bless this treasure of a man.
That was my favourite part! (Among many)
@@asha6822 - Amen asha6822 !
Like all true scientists, the wisdom of the Bible permeates his thought processes, and the pursuit of the truth in our life is blessed by God, and Dr Lennox is an excellent example.
That's so true.
Lennox is not a scientist. He poses a such from the state of his brainwashedness. He cannot look at his babble from a distance!
People Who have been given the gift of a brilliant intellect such as John Lennox and follow Truth acknowledging Jesus Christ as The Ultimate Truth encourage others to go on that journey to set themselves Free. Thank you Samuel and John for sharing the Wisdom and pointing The Way which leads to TRUTH Freedom and Life. Praise The Lord and God Bless His Holy City JERUSALEM
Thank you for this amazing interview!!
Hawking thought, it seems, that since he was a brilliant physicist he could make huge assumptions and pronouncements about God that were really quite ignorant of the whole concept of who God is. Being a smart guy doesn't make you an expert on anything but what you're good at..
The problem is even deeper then that. To be truly great in one particular field is almost going to require sacrifices of knowledge in other areas. There is no way to be an expert or even deeply knowledgeable of multiple fields. Really truly genius minds can maybe truly master 2 to 3 subjects but those are very rare. This means that an expert in the field of physics is going to have only a basic knowledge of other fields of science and be near utterly devoid of knowledge in non science fields (such as theology or philosophy). The dangerous thing is those experts in one field have arrogantly elevated their own abilty to think and reason to assume they are smart enough to know the ins and outs of subjects they have not studied without dedicating any real effort toward understanding it. And that is even more dangerous because people that are not as smart or ignorant will
Listen to those ‘experts’ even though they are not experts of that field. So you have the arrogant ignorant filling the incidental ignorant with ignorance.
Which God; Mormon, Islam, Hindu, etc.? Only Christian then?
The God that created the universe in six days
He created the ten commandments which identifies him as the creater in the 4th of the 10 commandments making the 7th day of the week the Holy Sabbath day of rest
@@DavidsVanHomeAdventure But what about the god that created the universe by splitting itself up into bits? Why should *that* god be the false one?
Dr Lennox is amazing and I admire him greatly. Having said that first, I now am compelled to tell you how a country boy, hillbilly, like me would answer the question, "what is truth ?". Truth is what is. Said another way, truth is what exists, historically, presently, and what will exist. The primary truth is God. He desires us to know that, thus, His very name. God, being omniscient knows that if we don't grasp the primary, the fundamental, foundational, then giving us further truth is irrelevant. We are not in the year 2023 supposed to be discovering what truth means, We should be a sevaral thousand years smarter than that. My two cents, but free today.
Truth is reality.
John Lennox God bless you Sir ,explanation without boundaries
Amazing interview. Great questions, Samuel and thank you Dr. John Lennox!
Thanks for your feedback, Jordan!
One of the most extraordinary interviews ever!
There has never been a time when listening to Dr. Lennox that I've walked away ignorant.
Absolutely wonderful interview with the always amazing John Lennox...Samuel well done 👏 ✔️ 👍
Thanks for the kind words! Stay tuned for my upcoming interview with John on artificial intelligence scheduled for release in October.
I agree with Mr. Lennox. This is one of the best interviews I have seen him do. John Lennox "A True Christian".
John,your wisdom comes from above!
If wisdom comes from above. Why are there stupid people
Man I just have to get Jhon Lennox’s books.
So much to learn from him
God bless him.
Great interview. Smart questions being put to a very smart man. My head is about to explode - in a good way - so thanks for this.
What a wonderful man bringing so much truth to this incredibly confused world.
Always love hearing John Lennox. Thank you.
How blessed are we to have the wonderful, brilliant, charming John Lennox - he is, as a recent commenter said, the C.S. Lewis of our time. And many thanks to Samuel who did such a good job as interviewer (it was lovely seeing Prof Lennox compliment him there at the end).
Thank God for John and this interview!
I know I say this on every video I watch with John Lennox, but he really is my favorite apologist! 😂
Thanks a lot Samuel for this extraordinary interview. Amazing questions! And also, thanks Prof. Lenox for sharing with us your wisdom! I am writing from Peru, in South America, so that it is an explicit manifestation of the broad influence you, both, have been getting.
Thanks a lot Alejandro. This is really encouraging! It is for people like you that I started this little podcast. I hope you'll also enjoy my upcoming interview with John Lennox on Artificial Intelligence (to be published in October).
@@Practical.Wisdom I, too, agree and congratulate you on this interview. If I could make an Eulerian diagram in which to place the disciplines and their contemporary coryphaei, I would place John Lennox in the innermost circle, that of empirical science, Peter Kreeft in the philosophical one, Pope Benedict in the theological one, and an Italian mystic, Luisa Piccarreta, in the outermost one, and more intimate with God, hallelujah!
Aww, what a nice way for Mr. John Lennox to end his time with Samual, saying that it was one of his best interviews. He’s done a ton of interviews so that’s a very kind compliment❤❤
Thanks for watching until the end!
The truth is this man is simply amazing. GREAT ìnterview
John Lennox has a wonderful mind. His logic and science says it all.
Truth is what God says it is an fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom!
I know that Lennox is accomplished but to me he's just full of BS. Every time I hear one of his arguments about the existence of god, he comes up with a lot of fluff. I've never heard him say anything that sounds even remotely convincing. A typical argument from him would be something like, 'if you need proof of god, just look at how amazing the universe is'.
So why do you waste your time listening to him?
@@juliemcdaniel7646 I don't.
Agreed, the common religious view is
' I can't believe we came from nothing, so must be my version of God ...what did it'
Wow! This is an incredible discussion of some of the most important questions mankind has been asking for thousands of years.
Thank you so very much for this interview.
Professor John is indeed a gift from God.
The definition of truth is priceless🙏🏼
Consciousness defined: literally Gods Breath. He made us a living soul. This makes sense to me. Here’s why: By God’s Word (Jesus) We are created, and the “breath of Life(Jesus) that carries the Word gave us consciousness. Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Who is the Way, Truth and Life? Yup you guessed it, Our Messiah Aka the door, the Way, Emanuel, The Prince of Peace and on and on ✅
Just INCREDIBLE👌👌👌. Worth every second. Amazing interview. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful conversation
This was truly a great interview. I wish for an interview with John Lennox going through the issue of pain and suffering and I would like for you to ask him why pain and suffering are used as an excuse to not believe in a kind god and refuse to realize that our rebellion against god is actually the cause of our pain and suffering and Jesus's final pain and suffering for all mankind. I realize that this is a tricky issue especially with those of who suffer greatly and apparently senselessly. I am not sure that I have said this well but I am sure that you can do a better job than I on the issue.
This is a really good suggestion, thank you! I have another episode with John on Artificial Intelligence, but will organise a live conference later this year and ask him this question.
John 14:21 KJV
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest (reveal) myself to him.
The Word of Truth is ever faithful (loyal, true, isomorphic) to Reality (That which is/That I am).
God is a title that we bestow upon our highest value.
We are Life at large, experiencing itself as all of us simultaneously. Therefore, we are all It, to an unknowable/inexhaustible extent, as the facets of a Diamond are 'both' distinct from each other 'and' the Diamond itself.
Love is the recognition of our shared Being.
28:00 if you can dismiss an idea or a question based on the qualifications or experience of the person who presents the idea or question (argument from authority), your dismissal could equally be ignored because you will never have sufficient knowledge of that person’s understanding or experience to be qualified to dismiss them. Dismissing an idea or a question, far more powerful and potentially unassailable than the mere person holding it, by shutting the person down, does in no way negate the idea or question. It’s little more than wilful blindness.
John Lennox Is such an amazing Christian scientist who’s so needed in such an atheistic field.
Intelligent design requires an intelligent MIND. Creation testified Of God of The Trinity of Jesus. Can’t get around it!
(FACTS OVA FEELINGS) If a Truth Is Able to DESTROY R DESTROY R Destabilize Something That Thing Was Not Strong, Real R Stable In The First Place
Dr Lennox introduces the topic of suffering and evil and it's true, human beings bring this up to deny God. I'd feel the same if, unlike many I too associated God with being the cause of all the pain and suffering in this world. From the very beginning human beings have quite happily and with great, persistence and energy, set about causing as much aggravation pain, savagery and suffering in the world and upon our fellow human beings as well as all the other living, sentiment beings we share this indescribably beautiful world with.. We have free will and God does not interfere with free will. HE will guide us, but following these 'prompts' is more often than not the path we choose to turn from.. GOD DOESN'T CAUSE PAIN AND SUFFERING! We human beings don't need any help from God! We are the cause of all the pain and suffering in the world. If we put our wonderfully creative and clever minds to a better purpose, even natural disasters wouldn't be a problem. We'd also have the closer and more intimate relationship with our creator that all human beings have instinctively sought , (consciously or unconsciously) down through the ages.
Of course the earth is a Young earth. I'd say 6,000 years is more than enough time for our petty, selfish and savage selves to be allowed to remain as we are. Down through the ages Humans have repeatedly made the same mistakes. WE'RE NOT IMPROVING! Now we're downright beyond Irresponsible and dangerous! We're too irresponsible and pigheaded to be allowed to continue down the suicidal paths our science and technology is opening up for us. God won't destroy us! We're about to do it to ourselves and take our beautiful planet earth with us. I've NEVER understood why God gets blamed for 'what men do!' Not a bit of sense to that way of thinking. Understandable if we were stupid with limited imagination or creativity. But no, our creator has blessed us with every blessing, even gave a conscience, so we are 'Without Excuse'!
Many thanks to both gentlemen for this very enjoyable Debate. As always Dr Lennox never ceases to open doors as he entertains, astounds and instructs us in his lively debates and lectures.
But God created humans. So if the humans are evil, God created evil beings and is therefore responsible for evil.
@@Alien1375 Yes! Even if God (if he exists, which he doesn't) created humans as free to choose to carry out evil, this means that he permitted evil to occur *and* it was by his doing that it was made possible.
I really wish there were more intelligent responses, like yours, to the shite Lennox spits out.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
I love John Lennox. He is very intelligent and I have learnt a lot from him
Thank you for your interest.
I don't think that people don't understand philosophy, or physics. Those who can read and comprehend or hear and understand certainly can, will and do develop a language of expression and understanding.
Those who hear, but lack this language, syntax understand in a different way. They see it.
Feel it.
Hear it it....
Do I need to pen a novel to enjoy a book? Write music to enjoy Vivaldi? To understand the Bible, do I need to develop a language to experience or express His works?
I love and understand Zeigfrieds death March and I have never written music. I even have trouble singing new hymns without that bouncing ball...
2+2=4, isn't correct because of the integer: 4. It's correct because of: 2+2
Amen!! In the beginning was the WORD. The Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him And without Him, nothing was made that was made.
(FACTS OVA FEELINGS). If Truth is Able to Destroy r Destabilize Sometuing tha Thing was Not Strong Real r Stable in the First Place
Amen. Truth is a person. John 14:6
"John Lennox on What is Truth"
Truth is a person, and it went downhill from there if you wanted anything like "normal" truth.
I have no problem with people believing in God, a god or gods. But all this trying to prove, or convince by some (not very) rational argument that the Christian God exists, is just meaningless.
All arguments for the Christian God is based on you liking some writings, but all big religions have their writings. Pick what you like and go with it.
You might try to use logic or the complex world to prove that god/gods exist, but that will never give you the Christian God. And all arguments I know of have been thoroughly refuted.
There were some good questions, but no meaningful answers. I listened to this because it came recommended by a friend, but a lot was directly painful to listen to. How is it possible to consider this meaningful?
Truth is a "Who" not just a What. Thanks John.
Religious have faith, not truth. You believe, you do not know. And all religious believe their religion or their 'truth" is the only right one, but they all have contradictory beliefs. So, how can religion be true?
@@bobak5126 well, because mankind cannot be depended upon for consistent truthful views, actions, traditions. . . Which means you and me. . .the must be truth higher than mere human propositional limits, and there is: the Creator.
He is not a man, nor a tradition, proposition, fable, or fraud.
He created this, and man in this.
To deny the Creator is simply deification of your own self.
But without evidence to support your claim.
Faith - IS RELIANCE on evidence, that God is sovereign, that he is the truth.
Don't mistake opinion for faith.
Make sense?
@@neiluscook2283 well, consider that all we have is human information. Even the religious texts are written by people. Who cannot be trusted, yes?
Now, lets say, hypothetically speaking, that I agree there needed to be a creator. How do I even begin figuring out this creator? How many creators must there be? And why are these creators allowing all of these religions to spring up, each of which requires faith. And the belief that the God of their own holy book is the true God.
@@neiluscook2283 Truth is the set of facts about reality. Anyone who has to redefine it is simply acting like their beliefs aren't truth (otherwise why redefine it?).
@@bobak5126 yes we do have human information; but let me clarify: we have a Book that was finished in toto some 1900 + yrs ago, and it was faithfully, accurately translated into English 400+ yrs ago; THIS is the source of my knowledge about God the Creator, The Most High, and the man who showed proofs of being God in the flesh! And witnesses of his life death and resurrection were willing to DIE for publicly telling of him.
That man is my Lord: meaning I trust him to take me through this troubled life, TO ETERNAL LIFE, with HIM. And the Bible is my textbook for my faith. The scientific evidence is there, true, but I have experienced his love, his powerful presence, and his wise counsel.
I can only say to you, "seek this truth, it can change your mind!"
Our star the sun is the truth. There is no truth without our*the sun Human imagination is only possible because of our star the sun. Humans in denial of the fact are known as believers. Belief is acceptance without knowledge. Knowledge is where we find facts. Look it up. Read more nonfiction. Dictionary. Encyclopedia. Thesaurus.
This was so worth listening! Loved it👏🏼👏🏼Great work🙌🏼
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. ✝️
The Greek's were interested in two things:
1. The things that came to be
2. And the things that were already
And the only being that never came to be was God, as God is eternal and is the creator of space, time and matter. This trinitarian creation must come into existence or being at exactly the same time or it cannot be.
This is by far my favorite interview on RUclips. I became and instant subscriber. Please bring more of the same.
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It was Rikki Gervais who said that if you burned all the science books, within a 1000 years the exact same science would be back and this isn't true of religion.
Very funny man but hardly someone to listen to for science nor philosophy, religion and faith.
Do you think he was wrong? Because it seems like a staggeringly good point he's made. And meanwhile we don't have any evidence of a god, right? So that's why religions wouldn't come back the same: because we don't actually know any of them are true ideas.
@@majm9309 if you watched the video then you'd know there is evidence for a creator. Not a god of the gaps in our knowledge but the author of everything.
Rikki Gervais is an interesting man and has come up with an interesting argument but it's not soundly founded nor a balanced point of view. Rejecting all religion just because the majority are flawed doesn't lead to truth. No scientist would do that with a scientific theory.
@@nickbarton3191 _What_ evidence?
For example look at your own retreat to the term "creator".
* Currently 100% of the creators we know of _aren't gods._
* Creator means, _"a person or thing that brings something into existence."_
* A god who creates would be a creator. But so what? So would anything else (creator-leprechauns, for example).
Imagine scientists, when asked to provide evidence of evolution (a non-intelligent process), immediately retreated to trying to show you non-intelligent processes happen. Not evolution specifically. Wouldn't that be a huge red flag that maybe science didn't know evolution was true?
Well with evolution we do know it's true. we can clearly define it and I can point you to the references section of "evolution" on Wikipedia for you to see hundreds of scientific papers _specifically indicating evolution happens._ I would never EVER retreat to some broader topic like "non-intelligent processes". And yet that's what you've done by retreating from "god" to "creator"; why isn't that a red flag to you?
Later he mentions a beginning. Well imagine Gary has a book that says leprechauns caused the universe. _Is the universe's beginning now evidence of leprechauns?_ It's a serious question, designed to get you to realize how bad Lennox's argument is. The evidence doesn't point to a god (if it did, he wouldn't be using something vague that might point to tons of things -- like the universe having a beginning), but instead we have very little knowledge about it (which Lennox himself admits). And yet that's all it takes for him to then treat this topic as evidence of a god, which seems like it should be a big red flag to you, right?
Does he even mention anything else? I couldn't find any other thing he was both (A) calling evidence and (B) providing at least a basic summary of why it should be treated as evidence of a god.
@@majm9309 retreat?
I think "author of everything" counts as God.
@@nickbarton3191 So do you know you're wrong? Because I explained why it's retreating and you ignored that. That's the behavior of someone who knows they're wrong.
Lennox didn't provide evidence of a god existing, let alone authoring everything. That's why he's stuck with the generic word "creator" in his arguments: because the evidence doesn't actually get us to a god. (You know, like the imaginary universe where scientists argued for "non-intelligent processes" when asked to prove evolution (a specific non-intelligent process that in that fictional universe we didn't have evidence of).)