A very good answer from the professor. Here’s the answer from the Bible: “But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whosoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.” - Luke 12:48 -This speaks to God’s mercy, system of justice and perfect judgment.
I am non-religious, but it would seem unfair to me (based on my understand of what unfair is defined as), that any god who would punish us for what understanding that we humans lack would be executed by an unfair god. That would be from a vengeful and egotistical god.
Jesus returns for Gathering of the saints(1st resurrection or rapture).Now if anybody dies,they just go into a deep sleep instead of Hades until Jesus returns and eventually God destroys Hades and Death in the lake of Fire(revelation 20:14).Lake of fire is the second death,hope i have been a little bit of help God bless.
I am from Papua New Guinea and I thank you for calling out my country! I confirm that The Great God Almighty exists, lives, rules and reigns and will do so, forever, for all eternity! He was, is and will always be! Amen!
@@johnpro2847 The idea was to give a concrete example of cultures which have no information about Jesus Christ, etc.. It was neither nice nor nasty to mention a particular culture, since the question was about people groups which haven't heard the gospel and therefore cannot respond to the gospel. It was a statement of fact, not a slight on the culture. 😊😊
This what God says re child sacrifices: "And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, *in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.*" Why would a loving God burn anybody? The Valley of the son of Hinnom referred to here, was outside the walls of Jerusalem, is the same place that Jesus called Gehenna. That place and its history made it an unclean place and it was used as a garbage dump where a sulfur fed fire was used to incinerate the city's refuge. That fire of Gehenna Jesus uses as an example of everlasting destruction - remember Adam was told he would "return to dust" - not torture, but *NON-EXISTENCE*. So the choice is between life or death, life to enjoy, but on God's loving terms of not harming others, or the grave, where Solomon said the dead knows nothing at all. "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at at all." Ecclesiastes 9:5. Death is like a permanent sleep and only a resurrection can bring them back to life, like Jesus did to his friend Lazarus four days later. Lazarus did not go to heaven and get recalled to go back to earth. No, Jesus had said "he has gone to sleep."
@@robertosvrahimis3304 or so you think. A man who commits a crime and has not be caught or tried feels absolutely great living a normal life. But when he is teied and sentenced and is put away, then he realizes that even the basics of life in a free world, wasn't such a basic thing after all. Im saying that i believe the absence from God will be faced after the teial and sentenced. "Enjoy" it while you can I say.
People, specifically non-Christians, have misconceptions of God. I've been looking at these comments and there were a few comments that I'd very much like to address. Someone described God in relation to man like this: "It's like a father giving there child a gun and say 'Have at it.'" First, God gives us the free choice to choose to follow Him or not. He doesn't force you to do anything and, while freedom of choice is a powerful thing, I wouldn't really call it a "gun." Second, God provides provisions and instructions. Not so much as condemning, but correcting. He doesn't throw you into this world and leave you blindly wandering. He provides the thing you need (a.k.a. His word). There was another comment that said that God isn't all-loving. Well, to what do you think God is all loving? To people? To sin? If sin is the case, God hates it. See, God is all loving in the sense that He loves every person. Jesus loves sinner but hates the sin. When the bible says God is all-loving, I'm pretty sure it's talking about it in the sense that He loves every person. God doesn't demand anything from us, He gives us the choice to give to Him. It's our choice and that decision that ultimately determines your fate. You cannot liken God to a thief holding a gun to your head and demanding your wallet because God isn't forcing you to give up anything. He wants to save you but if you don't accept, that's your decision. The more logical thing to liken God is to a man trying to save you from a burning building by holding out His hand; but, again, it's your choice to accept him or not.
Gaudio Wind it’s better than believing everything happened by chance and we are just purposeless organisms living on a planet with nothing to do but die.
That One Gamer Truth does not depend on your liking it and is not a product of wishful thinking. Believing you will win the lottery may be better than believing you will not, but that belief is worthless as a guide to what is true.
Rafael Robyns but you are still left with the question of where did the energy for the Big Bang come from, where the space came from for the energy to expand into, and how did molecules evolve? It’s not a special pleading fallacy to say that there must’ve been a creator who designed this. The lack of belief in God immediately raises the question of how everything got started, and if you summarize it, the hypothesis is that everything came out of nowhere
That One Gamer I'm okay with unanswered questions. The only honest answer in a case where you don't know something is, "I don't know." It certainly is special pleading to fill in gaps in our knowledge with unsupported must'ves. It's the equivalent of once having asserted that Thor must've created the lightning bolts because we lacked a natural explanation for them.
A charming answer, and obviously heartfelt. An atheist myself, I think I'd still be able to have an interesting, productive conversation with this guy. I still feel his argument is rather ad-hoc, and more "hardcore" Christians would attack his position on those very grounds, but he seems like an ok dude.
The majority are always wrong. If the majority was mostly right then the majority would be highly inteligent. We know that aint so. Its the ad hoc who grasp the truths.
I’m in the same boat you are pal. I was raised in a fairly fundamentalist tradition and in my teens I was really tied in knots. I became utterly horrified at the logical conclusions this tradition led to. I also learned that they made stuff up all the time. From the Satanic panic, to what evolution was. As a consequence, I could no longer hold these beliefs. They seemed utterly evil as well as intellectually bankrupt. I realized I was in a cult. This is actually the first time I’ve heard anything reasonable come out of the mouth of a man of faith. (As I generally assume a person of faith to generally believe the same things more or less as ISIS or the Westboro Baptist Church) As an agnostic, I’m way happier and mentally healthier.
@ Plain Speaker also, if God and Christianity are so evil and atheism is so good and caring, then answer this question, what has atheism ever provided or accomplished all throughout history that was beneficial to society?
Hunter3457 atheism is just a lack of belief in gods based on lack of evidence. It doesn’t purport to serve any community function. That is up to each person.
Religion starts with atheism and sooner or later it regresses back into superstition. The first Christians were atheist as they opposed the Greek and Roman gods. The charge against Jesus was blasphemy but people like to believe they are special and chosen. Now superstition is back in Christianity confess and you go to heaven take the wafer on Sunday and you go to heaven, have sex only if the priest says it is ok and you go to heaven etc etc. Manipulation works every time.
I find the framing of Lennox answer curious. Instead of answering from Scripure which is the source of Christian knowledge he instead goes to C.S. Lewis. Scriptures says that those who are born of the flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, one must be born by the Spirit of God to recieve eternal life. (John 3:5-8) All mankind is guilty of sin are all under the condemnation of God as all have sinned and come short of God's glory Only the Grace of God saves anyone and not anything in ourselves
Who else does it? You. It's your choice. He won't force you to love him. Hell simply means without God, so when you die that's it, it's over. But I believe it would have to be an absolute rejection of him for that to happen, not just a denile of his existence based on what you have or have not seen. If you don't happen to believe there is a God, but you would like there to be, then you might be VERY pleasently surprised when you die :)
Do not be deceived. Romans 2:12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. We are condemned to hell because of sin. Sin separates us from God. If we die in our sins, we remain separated from God. That's why hell is hell. Because God is not there. Sin CANNOT enters God's presence. The problem is God wants to have a relationship with us but his justice must be satisfied. At the cross, God satisfied his justice and wrath by pouring it out on his Son, Jesus Christ. Then 3 days later, God raised him from the dead. Repent and believe the good news and be reconciled to God.
and that's the trick, you sit there and say to people 'this is justice', and eventually if you say it enough they will conclude that it is just, because God is just and thus anything he does must therfore also be just, but how then do you justify punishing someone for eternity? simple, they must be evil, rotten to the core that's the ultimate point of christianity, to create in-groups and out-groups and say 'our side is good, their side is evil', and once you conclude that you can do whatever to them because it's all in pursuit of fighting evil, plus it encourages you to form an echo chamber around your side, after all, why would you ever listen to people you know to be evil?
You have pointed out exactly what I would point out that Paul in the letter to the Romans has dealt with this problem. If we will look all around us the very nature of this planet screams at us the God is there.
All are guilty and destined for hell because of sin, but God willing to show His mercy has chosen a number that no man can number to receive eternal life. No one knows who those people are but God know them and cares for them. It takes the work of the Spirit in the heart of those indivduals to keep them because otherwise noone is able to come and inherit eternal life. (Luke 18:26-27)
“Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. - John 17:3 Eternal Life doesn’t start when we die, but when we come to know God. This is why the Gospel is to be preached to the world, so that they might enter into eternal life.
My answers no as we judge ourselves just because it's written in the bible doesn't mean its true does it if I'm wrong then prove it I'm waiting and yes I believe in God and jesus and I don't need to be religes ? James
Great evading of the question. The question asks how are people who are not exposed to God suppose to even know about God in the first place in order to make it to heaven? The lost tribe in an Amazon jungle have no means to even know about God.
John 3:18-19: Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who doesn't accept Jesus Christ as their savior will go to hell, because they decided to accept other gods. Written by: Jackelyn Aragon. And may Jesus Christ bless you all and always.
There is no excuse. God has created human beings with absolute freedom to choose and believe what one wants. Jesus said,I am the way, truth and life and no one comes to God but through Me. It indicates that Jesus Christ is the only bridge between heaven and hell . Those are trying to pass through other means are destined not to heaven but hell only. Wake up or perish.
What about all the people who ever existed before any religions.. who never followed any religious obligations....what happens to them...theres no mention in any texts about this...im sure some modern theologian will have a convenient answer..
There is a form of hell for every religion or beliefs, even atheists. So people back then experience a form of hell - an atonement for their actions while still alive. No one gets away with anything - murder, stealing, abuse, kidnapping, deception, etc. All of our actions affect each of us.
Christ died for the whole world. It would be fitting that the whole world would hear and know Christ no matter where you lived in the world. Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15-16. Let's remember that everything is for the glory of God. God is no respector of people. When we start looking at things as God does then we will understand Him a lot better. Let's pray for understanding and start seeing God with our spiritual eyes. Once we do that all the hard questions will become easy. God bless
Same here! I really hope he is right, but it seems to me that his explanation is quite different from the mainstream understanding of the Gospel. But it certainly makes a whole lot of sense. Still the question remains as to why we should share the Gospel then, if it ultimately doesn't matter in terms of salvation. Is it to provide people with the chance of having a Christian life here on earth?
@@HomoSimpson928If I lived in a remote part of the world, I'd still want to know who my Creator was, and that I had meaning and a purpose. I think that being presented with this gospel (or 'good news') could change my life. I always believed that there was a God or some type of higher being when I was kid. It wasn't until I was about 18 that I found out who that God was. It changed my life :)
God is sovereign. Of course He can do what He wants. The question to ask is: Why would God want to send people to Hell, when the Christian view is very clear, that He would like to save each and every one? It is clear, from this question, that the questioner has not understood the objective of the Good Shepherd or the Parable of the Lost Sheep. [Matthew 18:12-14/ Luke 15:3-7]
God doesn't 'send people to hell'! People send themselves there! They make the choice to deny the Blood of Christ; they would rather listen to the vain philosophies of men, which is based on fleshly things rather than mind the things of the Spirit, which is the truth. Spiritual things are truthful things, and it's more 'reality' than what we, as humans in our limited understanding and perception, can fathom.
It would help immensely if there was some credible evidence for a “god”. Mind you if there actually was one, it would be the most evil, immoral, cruel, despicable entity it’s possible to imagine and not worth worshipping. I love the threat “worship me or suffer the consequences”. Kind of like the mafia.😂
it is almost like the interview that Billy Graham had with Larry King......people will be in heaven that never heard the name of Jesus.....sounds dangerous, to me...
WOW JUST WOW HAVE NONE OF YOU CONSIDERED THE WORKING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS CALLING??!!! WHO DO YOU THINK HAD HIS “HAND” IN THE OT UGH HES BEEN SO GRIEVED … INTERNET TEACHERS SHEPHERDS PROPHETS HAVE GRIEVED HIM AND WORK “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:25-27 OHYA FOR THE WEAK DONT MIND MY CAPS I HAVE OLD TIRED EYES
God tells us that everyone knows God and has enough evidence. Let God be true and every man a liar (Romans 3:4, Numbers 23:19). "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." -Romans 1:20
By limiting God’s sovereign will Dr Lennox, you in fact only give God a Procrustean makeover! And you pray, “Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name… Thy kingdom come… Thy will be done, in Heaven, but not here on Earth where my will reigns supreme…” What is there that you do not understand about “Not by works…” (Eph 2:8), which includes the volitional act of ‘mere belief’! “It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy” - Rom 9:16! Then, “believing on the ‘strength’ of the evidence”… really? Because when you insist upon trying to determine the verity of something (ANYTHING!) by interpreting the ‘evidence’ (and the ‘evidence’ is ALWAYS interpreted - the ‘evidence’ never ‘speaks for itself’ - that commits the error of reification), necessarily implies that we presume an epistemic ‘authority’ that subordinates the Truth (with a capital ‘T’) to something of lesser epistemic standing! And finally, who did Jesus have in view when he gave the ‘Great Commission’? NOT those who are spiritually dead - those whose “minds are blinded by the god of this age” (2Cor 4:4)! The gospel message is aimed at the CHURCH - those whom God himself claimed for himself “before the foundations of the world were laid” (Eph 1:4)! Trying to persuade those who are “dead in sin” (Eph 2:1), to be spiritually quickened unto life, is like trying to talk a corpse into life! It is “throwing pearls at pigs” (Mat 7:6)!
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Romans 1:18-23:
For a straight he is explaining silly things .if he answer directly no then CHRISTIAN GOD will get less business. If he says yes then people start questioning CHRISTIAN God .Now this per got fixed between devil and the deep sea. Thats why he is speaking eloquently instead of answering directly. Both persons wasting their time along with me for involving in this issue
I love Lennox, but this is kind of a double-sided argument. In the first part, he talks about, "God doesn't send anywhere they don't want to go...it's your choice." The second part he talks repeatedly about God not condemning people for evidence they don't have...here the agent of choice shift from the person to God. Which is it? Are we deciding ourselves whether we will accept God's invitation or is God's judging us in some way? Thoughts? Can anyone synthesize this for me?
I agree. And he ignored Romans 1:18-20: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse."
Belief isn't a choice. It doesn't matter if you want to believe something, you can't make yourself believe what you don't believe. Nonetheless you believe God will condemn you for that for infinity which is evil.
This is the classic free-will argument. God is such a gentleman deity that he would never push himself on us by "blasting in on us with some huge laser-like Star Wars power........." How about Paul's conversion? He seemed to get blasted enough to knock him to the ground. Gentlemen Jesus didn't invite Paul to follow him, He COMMANDED “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” Paul was exercising his "free will" when he was heading to Damacus to arrest Christians. Jesus changed his heart and caused him to be born again, so that he now had a new will. We don't believe and then as a result God changes our hearts; he changes our hearts and as a result we believe. Regeneration proceeds faith. Read full chapter
You will not get to heaven without the Saviour. A day with God is as a thousand years to man. Ever hear of The Lord's Day? A thousand years with Christ as King and Saviour. This is a time of teaching. Everyone will know the Lord.
What ignorance! Nobody is born in or out of any faith. I am living proof that Catholicism is not hereditary (I converted to Christianity and was born again). Nobody will stand before Christ with an excuse: those who lived before Jesus' ministry on earth were given an opportunity in Sheol, where Christ ministered for three days, before rising from the dead. In Holy Scripture, we learn that even through created nature God is revealed. The isolated Australian aborigine in his Dreamtime has an account of a Saviour, the flood and many Biblical accounts, only with generic names. What makes Christianity stand apart from all other faiths? It is the only non-humanistic religion, and the only one with God being omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Satan cannot expunge Judeo Christianity, so he offers man a myriad of false ones, among them Islam, Hinduism, JW and, yes, even Catholicism; for a close miss is as good as missing by a mile.
Romans 1.18 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
C.S. Lewis in the Narnia Chronicles was of opinion that a person whose national God was the Devil, but who lived a good life, would be accepted in Heaven. "Nothing good can be done in the service of the Devil." (and vice versa.) I am not qualified to comment.
2:47 "Will God condemn a person for not responding to evidence they never had?" "Of course NOT!" Well I 100% disagree with John Lennox and so does the apostle Paul because we read in Romans 1 and 2 that God's divine revelation is seen in nature and the evidence therefore is worldwide already. That a person is judged at death by the very law that is within them already at work.
Even if God can, will He take your advice? You think that you have found somebody that it is O.K. to hate, and still be admitted to God's community of love. It won't work. Maybe God should force you to stand in Heaven, and spend a thousand years feeling what it is like to be a misfit. The Prodigal's elder brother was more honest (or used his God-given intelligence.)
God is bigger than our minds. God doesn't care what we believe about God because it makes no difference to being God. You can misrepresent God through the Christian myth of Hell if you wish and God will still Love you, because the Love of God is unconditional. However, YOU are the one who will be affected. Indeed, people can be psychologically screwed up by believing in hell. Now God cares about that, because God is Love.
Not only because Jesus commanded us. . because he did so that people would know him and have life in abundance. .not all who have no knowledge are good people. .most are evil. .so we need to propagate Christianity
Here’s Your problem with your idea that one who grow up in a place ignorant to the things of God and Jesus Christ, if those people are saved because they didn’t know about Jesus Christ then they are saved apart from Jesus Christ and if any man can be saved without Jesus Christ then every man can be saved apart from Jesus Christ! You see the problem with your thinking???
Paganism has multiple Gods but believes in one humanity. Semitic religions have one God but at least two humanities:Believers on the one hand and infidel on the other. The division is not just social, racial or cultural; it is metaphysical: Ram Swarup
"god doesn't burst in with laser beams and stuff" god does this throughout the entirety of the old testament. He literally kills everyone and everything that ever lived except for some on a boat. God is constantly visiting people in their dreams and other such things.
Christianity is not the superior religion. That sense of superiority has given Satan full scope, whereby he has given power to the wild beast (Revelation 13:4-8). And many are following that wild beast saying 'Who can do battle with it. And it opens its mouth with blasphemies? All claiming to be Christian who give allegiance to governments who prosper be war and killing need to stop. They must get out of Babylon the Great if they don't want to share with her in her sins and receive part of her plagues Revelation 18:4-10. Easy to identify the wild beast and Babylon the Great. Babylon is guilty of much bloodshed. They have developed weapons for mass destruction and go subduing nations. They destabilise and bomb countries killing multi millions of innocent people in one place after another. By lies and deceptions they control nations. By forcing allegiance to their wickedness they cause pain and terror throughout the whole inhabited earth . It is by the power of Satan they rule in this day. Read please Romans 2:12 it is not hearers of law but doers of law who are saved, be they religious or non religious. Because it is those doing what is lawful who are the ones who demonstrate they have the law written in their hearts. It is good and morally strengthening to listen to preachers but by using our own discernment. To gain understanding it is necessary to ask for Holy Spirit to guide us. I know it is possible for anyone asking to be given guidance. When listening to preachers it is advisable to read the whole chapter and chapters surrounding any scripture given because preachers often pick a scripture and attach a different meaning to it for their own purposes. Many are teaching religion for alternative motives usually to make money and gain prestige. In that way many are mislead. And that goes for all religions I have looked to and I have witnessed many deceptions.
WITH ALL RESPECT ....BUT I THINK THAT MAN IS LIVING HIS CHOICE , THE MAN CHOSE ONCE IN GARDEN OF EDEN ...NEXT WAS THAT LORD JESUS THE CHRIST CHOSE TO DIE FOR DISOBEDIENCE OF MANKIND , WHAT MAN CAN DO ONLY ...IS TO ACCEPT WHAT LORD JESUS THE CHRIST CHOSE TO DO TO SAVE WHO BELIEVE IN HIS CHOICE , TO DIE , SACRIFICE HIM SELF MAY THE JUSTICE OF LORD GOD FALL ON HIS SON JESUS THE CHRIST MAN CAN'T CHOOSE ANYMORE ...ONLY ACCEPT .... WITH ALL RESPECT FOR SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH
Lennox's reply was in direct conflict to what the bible says. In the New Testament, Christ said the ONLY way to the Father was through him. Does that not condemn all other religions that are not Christian ? Maybe he just didn't like to say all that ?
Deferred hope makes the heart grow sick seek and you shall find, heaven is in you fragments of the bible inspired and what Jesus said, regards if People in papua new guinea or no one heard of the Gospel even death and deaf blind can not separate us from God
It is a sick fiction of God to believe that he could consciously and actively intervene in our lives. The God Albert Einstein believes in gives us a much stronger foundation for faith than Christianity. God is all of nature.
Heaven is where God lives , Heaven(s) is the sky or universe seeing from earth. If paradise was Adam and eve's habitat in book of genesis,the same place they got chased out of by God's angel,then paradise is not ''Heaven".Remember Luke 23:43 when Jesus told the thief on his right hand side that He will be with him in paradise today.Read Matt 12:40,1 peter 3:19-22,1 Peter 4:5-6,Ephesians 4:7-10 etc.Hades/Sheol had two regions with a gulf separating them according to Luke16 for people who died
You also need deeds with your faith. There is a form of hell for every religion or beliefs. Atheists and non-believers also experience hell. All of us affect each other. Our actions, thoughts, words, influences, and affects our lives. Every one will answer and atone for their actions.
this answer is spot on, Those who have churches they can go to, bibles they can read, christians they can talk to, and still choose to be ignorant of God will be judged. Those who have none of these will not. Its quite simple, and hes right Jesus does come out and say it, " since you claim your not blind you are guilty " boom
Here is the thing, God is in everyone to a certain extent. Anyone who truly seeks Him will find Him and His truth. Now how God brings the truth to an individual varies. He may send a servant of His, speak to you directly, give you visions, i don't know. There are many ways God could reveal Himself to a person if they would just simply seek Him. Everyone, no matter who or where you are on this planet, has the chance and option to seek God all the days of your life.
I agree with you. We are only under the guilt of original sin, but the sin that babies are naturally under by nature are saved by the Grace of Christ and not by anything they can do of themselves. Jesus said unto such was the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:14, Luke 18:16) Jesus said you cannot see or even hear the Kingdom of God without being born again and continue under the power of the Holy Spirit. So if you are blind and deaf, it is impossible to come to Christ freely (John 3:3, 9:41, 10:26-30)
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Thank you, John Lennox. You always strengthen and encourage me in my faith.
A very good answer from the professor. Here’s the answer from the Bible: “But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whosoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.”
- Luke 12:48 -This speaks to God’s mercy, system of justice and perfect judgment.
I thank God for Mr. Lennox. He explains things so simply even a child could understand. He emulates Jesus in this regard.
Yes and hopefully a child will ignore it!
I am non-religious, but it would seem unfair to me (based on my understand of what unfair is defined as), that any god who would punish us for what understanding that we humans lack would be executed by an unfair god. That would be from a vengeful and egotistical god.
This was a hilariously bad answer to the question.
It's only a bad answer because you're blind you're self or don't understand what he's saying.
Jesus returns for Gathering of the saints(1st resurrection or rapture).Now if anybody dies,they just go into a deep sleep instead of Hades until Jesus returns and eventually God destroys Hades and Death in the lake of Fire(revelation 20:14).Lake of fire is the second death,hope i have been a little bit of help God bless.
I am from Papua New Guinea and I thank you for calling out my country! I confirm that The Great God Almighty exists, lives, rules and reigns and will do so, forever, for all eternity! He was, is and will always be! Amen!
Read the holy Qur'an and speak to islamic scholars !
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God bless you Ronnie 🙏✝️
no need to highlight certain countries ..no nice..People from everywhere believe in all sorts of things ....
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The idea was to give a concrete example of cultures which have no information about Jesus Christ, etc.. It was neither nice nor nasty to mention a particular culture, since the question was about people groups which haven't heard the gospel and therefore cannot respond to the gospel. It was a statement of fact, not a slight on the culture. 😊😊
A highly respected man John Lennox is.
Could hear a pin drop.
Yes, from an intellectual pinhead like John Lennox!
@@GeoCoppens you christian? (if so what's your denomination)
@@blackfalkon4189 No religious belief for me! Nothing!
@@GeoCoppens you scientist?
@@blackfalkon4189 Yes, a cognitive psychologist and a philosopher of science!
I think, the more we know, the more we will be accountable for.
I think that’s why people don’t want to know true things. They want to be able to claim ignorance of their own responsibilities.
I know its my brother matata
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Yeah there's a concept of willful ignorance and denial.
Yeah thats accurate
This is true
Becuase John is patient and willing to offer a fuller explaination which, being a simple guy, I really appreciate.
A very elegant answer to a pretty tough question!
Prof. Lennox is such a wonderful man
Agree. I am always delighted when one of his videos pop up that I haven't seen before
He’s my favorite 😊
He's insufferably smug
I hope God forgives me, I get so lost in depression and fatigue at times,
Just believe on Jesus.
One of the best response I've heard in relation to this type of question which is "loaded" like a gun to catch a believer.
This what God says re child sacrifices: "And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, *in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.*"
Why would a loving God burn anybody? The Valley of the son of Hinnom referred to here, was outside the walls of Jerusalem, is the same place that Jesus called Gehenna. That place and its history made it an unclean place and it was used as a garbage dump where a sulfur fed fire was used to incinerate the city's refuge. That fire of Gehenna Jesus uses as an example of everlasting destruction - remember Adam was told he would "return to dust" - not torture, but *NON-EXISTENCE*.
So the choice is between life or death, life to enjoy, but on God's loving terms of not harming others, or the grave, where Solomon said the dead knows nothing at all. "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at at all." Ecclesiastes 9:5.
Death is like a permanent sleep and only a resurrection can bring them back to life, like Jesus did to his friend Lazarus four days later. Lazarus did not go to heaven and get recalled to go back to earth. No, Jesus had said "he has gone to sleep."
Hell is merely the complete and absolute absence of God. That, in itself, is the most severe form of torture.
Can't see much wrong with dying and staying dead - doubt anyone will worry too much about it when they're dead!
I live in complete and absolute absence of god now and I feel great, thank you very much.
The Universe doesn’t seem that bad, and there’s no god. 😂
@@robertosvrahimis3304 or so you think. A man who commits a crime and has not be caught or tried feels absolutely great living a normal life. But when he is teied and sentenced and is put away, then he realizes that even the basics of life in a free world, wasn't such a basic thing after all. Im saying that i believe the absence from God will be faced after the teial and sentenced. "Enjoy" it while you can I say.
@@peterrobinson4471 This punishing god of yours is worst than hell my friend. Maybe god is hell then?
God is great 🙌👌
People, specifically non-Christians, have misconceptions of God. I've been looking at these comments and there were a few comments that I'd very much like to address.
Someone described God in relation to man like this:
"It's like a father giving there child a gun and say 'Have at it.'"
First, God gives us the free choice to choose to follow Him or not. He doesn't force you to do anything and, while freedom of choice is a powerful thing, I wouldn't really call it a "gun."
Second, God provides provisions and instructions. Not so much as condemning, but correcting. He doesn't throw you into this world and leave you blindly wandering. He provides the thing you need (a.k.a. His word).
There was another comment that said that God isn't all-loving.
Well, to what do you think God is all loving? To people? To sin? If sin is the case, God hates it. See, God is all loving in the sense that He loves every person. Jesus loves sinner but hates the sin. When the bible says God is all-loving, I'm pretty sure it's talking about it in the sense that He loves every person.
God doesn't demand anything from us, He gives us the choice to give to Him. It's our choice and that decision that ultimately determines your fate. You cannot liken God to a thief holding a gun to your head and demanding your wallet because God isn't forcing you to give up anything. He wants to save you but if you don't accept, that's your decision.
The more logical thing to liken God is to a man trying to save you from a burning building by holding out His hand; but, again, it's your choice to accept him or not.
juanoviedo82 Where did you get this God from? Was it from the Bible?
Gaudio Wind it’s better than believing everything happened by chance and we are just purposeless organisms living on a planet with nothing to do but die.
That One Gamer Truth does not depend on your liking it and is not a product of wishful thinking. Believing you will win the lottery may be better than believing you will not, but that belief is worthless as a guide to what is true.
Rafael Robyns but you are still left with the question of where did the energy for the Big Bang come from, where the space came from for the energy to expand into, and how did molecules evolve? It’s not a special pleading fallacy to say that there must’ve been a creator who designed this. The lack of belief in God immediately raises the question of how everything got started, and if you summarize it, the hypothesis is that everything came out of nowhere
That One Gamer I'm okay with unanswered questions. The only honest answer in a case where you don't know something is, "I don't know." It certainly is special pleading to fill in gaps in our knowledge with unsupported must'ves. It's the equivalent of once having asserted that Thor must've created the lightning bolts because we lacked a natural explanation for them.
I misread this, but damn! I really wanted to hear John Lennon's thoughts on this.
If he could speak, he would say get saved. Luke 16 vs 19-31.
John Lennon did make his thoughts known in word and in deed. And now he knows the truth.
I truly enjoy listening to Professor Lennox. He has a kind heart.
God cannot send anyone to hell because god and hell do not exist.
religious folks need help like a child needs a teddy bear
A charming answer, and obviously heartfelt. An atheist myself, I think I'd still be able to have an interesting, productive conversation with this guy. I still feel his argument is rather ad-hoc, and more "hardcore" Christians would attack his position on those very grounds, but he seems like an ok dude.
The majority are always wrong. If the majority was mostly right then the majority would be highly inteligent. We know that aint so. Its the ad hoc who grasp the truths.
@@themask706
You said, “The majority are always wrong”.
So what do you say when the majority is right?
I’m Christian but Stephen, I appreciate your answer. Peace and God bless 🙏🏿
I’m in the same boat you are pal. I was raised in a fairly fundamentalist tradition and in my teens I was really tied in knots. I became utterly horrified at the logical conclusions this tradition led to.
I also learned that they made stuff up all the time. From the Satanic panic, to what evolution was.
As a consequence, I could no longer hold these beliefs. They seemed utterly evil as well as intellectually bankrupt.
I realized I was in a cult.
This is actually the first time I’ve heard anything reasonable come out of the mouth of a man of faith. (As I generally assume a person of faith to generally believe the same things more or less as ISIS or the Westboro Baptist Church)
As an agnostic, I’m way happier and mentally healthier.
I hope you have come closer to God this last decade. :)
Always real fun to listen to someone who thinks he knows who or what god is. Such a hypocrite!
Eloquent, charmingly delivered nonsense.
@ Plain Speaker also, if God and Christianity are so evil and atheism is so good and caring, then answer this question, what has atheism ever provided or accomplished all throughout history that was beneficial to society?
WHO IS AFRAID OF AN OLD FRAGILE GHOST?
What has "religion", people do it not beliefs
Hunter3457 atheism is just a lack of belief in gods based on lack of evidence. It doesn’t purport to serve any community function. That is up to each person.
Religion starts with atheism and sooner or later it regresses back into superstition. The first Christians were atheist as they opposed the Greek and Roman gods. The charge against Jesus was blasphemy but people like to believe they are special and chosen. Now superstition is back in Christianity confess and you go to heaven take the wafer on Sunday and you go to heaven, have sex only if the priest says it is ok and you go to heaven etc etc. Manipulation works every time.
Roads?
John Lennox a true scholar of Christianity and the truth.
Glory to God.
I find the framing of Lennox answer curious. Instead of answering from Scripure which is the source of Christian knowledge he instead goes to C.S. Lewis.
Scriptures says that those who are born of the flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, one must be born by the Spirit of God to recieve eternal life. (John 3:5-8)
All mankind is guilty of sin are all under the condemnation of God as all have sinned and come short of God's glory
Only the Grace of God saves anyone and not anything in ourselves
Who else does it? You. It's your choice. He won't force you to love him. Hell simply means without God, so when you die that's it, it's over. But I believe it would have to be an absolute rejection of him for that to happen, not just a denile of his existence based on what you have or have not seen. If you don't happen to believe there is a God, but you would like there to be, then you might be VERY pleasently surprised when you die :)
I think Catholics created Purgatory to help those who need extra time to get on track.
What a bunch of superstitious nonsense.
Do not be deceived. Romans 2:12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. We are condemned to hell because of sin. Sin separates us from God. If we die in our sins, we remain separated from God. That's why hell is hell. Because God is not there. Sin CANNOT enters God's presence. The problem is God wants to have a relationship with us but his justice must be satisfied. At the cross, God satisfied his justice and wrath by pouring it out on his Son, Jesus Christ. Then 3 days later, God raised him from the dead. Repent and believe the good news and be reconciled to God.
It's not love if they punishes you FOREVER for a choice you made. That's not justice
which is why such a place DOESN'T exist. it is yet another false teaching from a false religion
and that's the trick, you sit there and say to people 'this is justice', and eventually if you say it enough they will conclude that it is just, because God is just and thus anything he does must therfore also be just, but how then do you justify punishing someone for eternity? simple, they must be evil, rotten to the core
that's the ultimate point of christianity, to create in-groups and out-groups and say 'our side is good, their side is evil', and once you conclude that you can do whatever to them because it's all in pursuit of fighting evil, plus it encourages you to form an echo chamber around your side, after all, why would you ever listen to people you know to be evil?
Lennox is correct. Second Chapter of Romans lays out perfectly what will happen to those who have never heard about Christ or God.
You have pointed out exactly what I would point out that Paul in the letter to the Romans has dealt with this problem. If we will look all around us the very nature of this planet screams at us the God is there.
@@olivianatwick7603 Well said.
His answer is very weak.
Amazing....Blessings from India!
Me too
All are guilty and destined for hell because of sin, but God willing to show His mercy has chosen a number that no man can number to receive eternal life.
No one knows who those people are but God know them and cares for them. It takes the work of the Spirit in the heart of those indivduals to keep them because otherwise noone is able to come and inherit eternal life. (Luke 18:26-27)
“Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
- John 17:3
Eternal Life doesn’t start when we die, but when we come to know God. This is why the Gospel is to be preached to the world, so that they might enter into eternal life.
I love John Lennox!
My answers no as we judge ourselves just because it's written in the bible doesn't mean its true does it if I'm wrong then prove it I'm waiting and yes I believe in God and jesus and I don't need to be religes ? James
Great evading of the question. The question asks how are people who are not exposed to God suppose to even know about God in the first place in order to make it to heaven? The lost tribe in an Amazon jungle have no means to even know about God.
John 3:18-19: Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who doesn't accept Jesus Christ as their savior will go to hell, because they decided to accept other gods. Written by: Jackelyn Aragon. And may Jesus Christ bless you all and always.
There is no excuse. God has created human beings with absolute freedom to choose and believe what one wants. Jesus said,I am the way, truth and life and no one comes to God but through Me. It indicates that Jesus Christ is the only bridge between heaven and hell . Those are trying to pass through other means are destined not to heaven but hell only. Wake up or perish.
What about all the people who ever existed before any religions.. who never followed any religious obligations....what happens to them...theres no mention in any texts about this...im sure some modern theologian will have a convenient answer..
There is a form of hell for every religion or beliefs, even atheists. So people back then experience a form of hell - an atonement for their actions while still alive.
No one gets away with anything - murder, stealing, abuse, kidnapping, deception, etc. All of our actions affect each of us.
Ahh thas ok..its a god job i dont believe in hell then..
I disagree...
Brilliantly put. That's what I believe. Thank you prof Lennox
Basically, God is not forcing anyone into heaven.
No he is not saying that, he is saying God will not condemn you if you were not presented with any evidence. Only if you are "truly" ignorant.
Christ died for the whole world. It would be fitting that the whole world would hear and know Christ no matter where you lived in the world. Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15-16. Let's remember that everything is for the glory of God. God is no respector of people. When we start looking at things as God does then we will understand Him a lot better. Let's pray for understanding and start seeing God with our spiritual eyes. Once we do that all the hard questions will become easy. God bless
I really hope he is right. I struggle big time with this question and don’t know how to answer it.
Same here! I really hope he is right, but it seems to me that his explanation is quite different from the mainstream understanding of the Gospel. But it certainly makes a whole lot of sense. Still the question remains as to why we should share the Gospel then, if it ultimately doesn't matter in terms of salvation. Is it to provide people with the chance of having a Christian life here on earth?
@@HomoSimpson928If I lived in a remote part of the world, I'd still want to know who my Creator was, and that I had meaning and a purpose.
I think that being presented with this gospel (or 'good news') could change my life.
I always believed that there was a God or some type of higher being when I was kid. It wasn't until I was about 18 that I found out who that God was. It changed my life :)
God is sovereign. Of course He can do what He wants.
The question to ask is: Why would God want to send people to Hell, when the Christian view is very clear, that He would like to save each and every one?
It is clear, from this question, that the questioner has not understood the objective of the Good Shepherd or the Parable of the Lost Sheep. [Matthew 18:12-14/ Luke 15:3-7]
God doesn't 'send people to hell'! People send themselves there! They make the choice to deny the Blood of Christ; they would rather listen to the vain philosophies of men, which is based on fleshly things rather than mind the things of the Spirit, which is the truth. Spiritual things are truthful things, and it's more 'reality' than what we, as humans in our limited understanding and perception, can fathom.
John cannot know anything about the 'supernatural, life outside our solar system or other celestial beings which may or possibly do nor exist.
It would help immensely if there was some credible evidence for a “god”. Mind you if there actually was one, it would be the most evil, immoral, cruel, despicable entity it’s possible to imagine and not worth worshipping. I love the threat “worship me or suffer the consequences”. Kind of like the mafia.😂
it is almost like the interview that Billy Graham had with Larry King......people will be in heaven that never heard the name of Jesus.....sounds dangerous, to me...
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“These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
John 14:25-27
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God tells us that everyone knows God and has enough evidence. Let God be true and every man a liar (Romans 3:4, Numbers 23:19).
"For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." -Romans 1:20
There wasn't even any evidence presented to Abraham. He believed God's Word - he trusted in God and thus he was declared righteous by God.
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Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
By limiting God’s sovereign will Dr Lennox, you in fact only give God a Procrustean makeover! And you pray, “Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name… Thy kingdom come… Thy will be done, in Heaven, but not here on Earth where my will reigns supreme…”
What is there that you do not understand about “Not by works…” (Eph 2:8), which includes the volitional act of ‘mere belief’! “It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy” - Rom 9:16!
Then, “believing on the ‘strength’ of the evidence”… really? Because when you insist upon trying to determine the verity of something (ANYTHING!) by interpreting the ‘evidence’ (and the ‘evidence’ is ALWAYS interpreted - the ‘evidence’ never ‘speaks for itself’ - that commits the error of reification), necessarily implies that we presume an epistemic ‘authority’ that subordinates the Truth (with a capital ‘T’) to something of lesser epistemic standing!
And finally, who did Jesus have in view when he gave the ‘Great Commission’? NOT those who are spiritually dead - those whose “minds are blinded by the god of this age” (2Cor 4:4)! The gospel message is aimed at the CHURCH - those whom God himself claimed for himself “before the foundations of the world were laid” (Eph 1:4)!
Trying to persuade those who are “dead in sin” (Eph 2:1), to be spiritually quickened unto life, is like trying to talk a corpse into life! It is “throwing pearls at pigs” (Mat 7:6)!
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:18-23:
For a straight he is explaining silly things .if he answer directly no then CHRISTIAN GOD will get less business.
If he says yes then people start questioning CHRISTIAN God .Now this per got fixed between devil and the deep sea.
Thats why he is speaking eloquently instead of answering directly.
Both persons wasting their time along with me for involving in this issue
I love Lennox, but this is kind of a double-sided argument. In the first part, he talks about, "God doesn't send anywhere they don't want to go...it's your choice." The second part he talks repeatedly about God not condemning people for evidence they don't have...here the agent of choice shift from the person to God. Which is it? Are we deciding ourselves whether we will accept God's invitation or is God's judging us in some way?
Thoughts? Can anyone synthesize this for me?
I agree. And he ignored Romans 1:18-20: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse."
Atheist Europe?
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Many if not most Europeans would feel insulted I imagine...or feel a pity for poor man.
Or both
Belief isn't a choice. It doesn't matter if you want to believe something, you can't make yourself believe what you don't believe. Nonetheless you believe God will condemn you for that for infinity which is evil.
This is the classic free-will argument. God is such a gentleman deity that he would never push himself on us by "blasting in on us with some huge laser-like Star Wars power........." How about Paul's conversion? He seemed to get blasted enough to knock him to the ground. Gentlemen Jesus didn't invite Paul to follow him, He COMMANDED “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” Paul was exercising his "free will" when he was heading to Damacus to arrest Christians. Jesus changed his heart and caused him to be born again, so that he now had a new will. We don't believe and then as a result God changes our hearts; he changes our hearts and as a result we believe. Regeneration proceeds faith.
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You will not get to heaven without the Saviour. A day with God is as a thousand years to man. Ever hear of The Lord's Day? A thousand years with Christ as King and Saviour. This is a time of teaching. Everyone will know the Lord.
What ignorance! Nobody is born in or out of any faith. I am living proof that Catholicism is not hereditary (I converted to Christianity and was born again).
Nobody will stand before Christ with an excuse: those who lived before Jesus' ministry on earth were given an opportunity in Sheol, where Christ ministered for three days, before rising from the dead. In Holy Scripture, we learn that even through created nature God is revealed. The isolated Australian aborigine in his Dreamtime has an account of a Saviour, the flood and many Biblical accounts, only with generic names.
What makes Christianity stand apart from all other faiths? It is the only non-humanistic religion, and the only one with God being omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Satan cannot expunge Judeo Christianity, so he offers man a myriad of false ones, among them Islam, Hinduism, JW and, yes, even Catholicism; for a close miss is as good as missing by a mile.
Romans 1.18 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
C.S. Lewis in the Narnia Chronicles was of opinion that a person whose national God was the Devil, but who lived a good life, would be accepted in Heaven. "Nothing good can be done in the service of the Devil." (and vice versa.) I am not qualified to comment.
2:47 "Will God condemn a person for not responding to evidence they never had?" "Of course NOT!"
Well I 100% disagree with John Lennox and so does the apostle Paul because we read in Romans 1 and 2 that God's divine revelation is seen in nature and the evidence therefore is worldwide already. That a person is judged at death by the very law that is within them already at work.
Even if God can, will He take your advice? You think that you have found somebody that it is O.K. to hate, and still be admitted to God's community of love. It won't work. Maybe God should force you to stand in Heaven, and spend a thousand years feeling what it is like to be a misfit. The Prodigal's elder brother was more honest (or used his God-given intelligence.)
God is bigger than our minds. God doesn't care what we believe about God because it makes no difference to being God. You can misrepresent God through the Christian myth of Hell if you wish and God will still Love you, because the Love of God is unconditional. However, YOU are the one who will be affected. Indeed, people can be psychologically screwed up by believing in hell. Now God cares about that, because God is Love.
Not only because Jesus commanded us. . because he did so that people would know him and have life in abundance. .not all who have no knowledge are good people. .most are evil. .so we need to propagate Christianity
Here’s Your problem with your idea that one who grow up in a place ignorant to the things of God and Jesus Christ, if those people are saved because they didn’t know about Jesus Christ then they are saved apart from Jesus Christ and if any man can be saved without Jesus Christ then every man can be saved apart from Jesus Christ! You see the problem with your thinking???
God doesn't condemn anyone who has never heard of the Christian gospel and the good news of Jesus Christ
Paganism has multiple Gods but believes in one humanity. Semitic religions have one God but at least two humanities:Believers on the one hand and infidel on the other. The division is not just social, racial or cultural; it is metaphysical: Ram Swarup
"god doesn't burst in with laser beams and stuff" god does this throughout the entirety of the old testament. He literally kills everyone and everything that ever lived except for some on a boat. God is constantly visiting people in their dreams and other such things.
WOW. Some of you are really over thinking this.
Christianity is not the superior religion. That sense of superiority has given Satan full scope, whereby he has given power to the wild beast (Revelation 13:4-8). And many are following that wild beast saying 'Who can do battle with it. And it opens its mouth with blasphemies? All claiming to be Christian who give allegiance to governments who prosper be war and killing need to stop. They must get out of Babylon the Great if they don't want to share with her in her sins and receive part of her plagues Revelation 18:4-10.
Easy to identify the wild beast and Babylon the Great. Babylon is guilty of much bloodshed. They have developed weapons for mass destruction and go subduing nations. They destabilise and bomb countries killing multi millions of innocent people in one place after another. By lies and deceptions they control nations. By forcing allegiance to their wickedness they cause pain and terror throughout the whole inhabited earth . It is by the power of Satan they rule in this day.
Read please Romans 2:12 it is not hearers of law but doers of law who are saved, be they religious or non religious. Because it is those doing what is lawful who are the ones who demonstrate they have the law written in their hearts.
It is good and morally strengthening to listen to preachers but by using our own discernment. To gain understanding it is necessary to ask for Holy Spirit to guide us. I know it is possible for anyone asking to be given guidance. When listening to preachers it is advisable to read the whole chapter and chapters surrounding any scripture given because preachers often pick a scripture and attach a different meaning to it for their own purposes. Many are teaching religion for alternative motives usually to make money and gain prestige. In that way many are mislead. And that goes for all religions I have looked to and I have witnessed many deceptions.
WITH ALL RESPECT ....BUT I THINK THAT MAN IS LIVING HIS CHOICE , THE MAN CHOSE ONCE IN GARDEN OF EDEN ...NEXT WAS THAT LORD JESUS THE CHRIST CHOSE TO DIE FOR DISOBEDIENCE OF MANKIND , WHAT MAN CAN DO ONLY ...IS TO ACCEPT WHAT LORD JESUS THE CHRIST CHOSE TO DO TO SAVE WHO BELIEVE IN HIS CHOICE , TO DIE , SACRIFICE HIM SELF MAY THE JUSTICE OF LORD GOD FALL ON HIS SON JESUS THE CHRIST
MAN CAN'T CHOOSE ANYMORE ...ONLY ACCEPT ....
WITH ALL RESPECT FOR SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH
Funny how ancestral worship in Africa is considered inappropriate by Christians but yet you have Africans worship your ancestor, Jesus.
We said Prof Lennox.
Keep up the good work
Well said?
Lennox's reply was in direct conflict to what the bible says. In the New Testament, Christ said the ONLY way to the Father was through him. Does that not condemn all other religions that are not Christian ? Maybe he just didn't like to say all that ?
Deferred hope makes the heart grow sick seek and you shall find, heaven is in you fragments of the bible inspired and what Jesus said, regards if People in papua new guinea or no one heard of the Gospel even death and deaf blind can not separate us from God
john just makes this stuff up..or just repeats what he was told.
This is highly misleading and leads to thinking that god doesn’t condem souls to hell. He is grasping at straws to support the idea of God.
“I present the evidence” says John Lennox, after 6 minutes of not presenting any evidence
It is a sick fiction of God to believe that he could consciously and actively intervene in our lives. The God Albert Einstein believes in gives us a much stronger foundation for faith than Christianity. God is all of nature.
Space Odyssey: It´s full of stars. Lennox: full of lies.
So God commands missions which in millions of cases is the reason people will go to Hell for not receiving the gospel. 😂😂😂😂😂
John loves making up things he doesn't know and can't prove.
Paul says that the heavens declare the glory of God, so no one has excuse not to believe in God. What about this??
Heaven is where God lives , Heaven(s) is the sky or universe seeing from earth.
If paradise was Adam and eve's habitat in book of genesis,the same place they got chased out of by God's angel,then paradise is not ''Heaven".Remember Luke 23:43 when Jesus told the thief on his right hand side that He will be with him in paradise today.Read Matt 12:40,1 peter 3:19-22,1 Peter 4:5-6,Ephesians 4:7-10 etc.Hades/Sheol had two regions with a gulf separating them according to Luke16 for people who died
This man does not know the scriptures. "No one comes to the Father except by me." Jesus.
So “by me” Jesus is saying “knowing me” or that He decides?
You also need deeds with your faith. There is a form of hell for every religion or beliefs. Atheists and non-believers also experience hell.
All of us affect each other. Our actions, thoughts, words, influences, and affects our lives. Every one will answer and atone for their actions.
@@jerrym.3083 What are these deeds that one needs Jerry?
Smoke and mirrors answer, typical.
My last comment was directed to Movie M's comment.
Amen 🙏 brother John like always ready to answer any question like the Bible asks us to prepare for
this answer is spot on, Those who have churches they can go to, bibles they can read, christians they can talk to, and still choose to be ignorant of God will be judged. Those who have none of these will not. Its quite simple, and hes right Jesus does come out and say it, " since you claim your not blind you are guilty " boom
Here is the thing, God is in everyone to a certain extent. Anyone who truly seeks Him will find Him and His truth. Now how God brings the truth to an individual varies. He may send a servant of His, speak to you directly, give you visions, i don't know. There are many ways God could reveal Himself to a person if they would just simply seek Him. Everyone, no matter who or where you are on this planet, has the chance and option to seek God all the days of your life.
It does matter what Scripture says for it is Gods word.
Absolutely true, sadly many Christians today do not believe the account of the book of Genesis (about creation ) anymore.
Look into it more and you'll see Christianity is right.
Lets wait till we get there
I agree with you. We are only under the guilt of original sin, but the sin that babies are naturally under by nature are saved by the Grace of Christ and not by anything they can do of themselves. Jesus said unto such was the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:14, Luke 18:16)
Jesus said you cannot see or even hear the Kingdom of God without being born again and continue under the power of the Holy Spirit. So if you are blind and deaf, it is impossible to come to Christ freely (John 3:3, 9:41, 10:26-30)
When did you hear Jesus said that...