How Christianity Is Different From Every Religion
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- John Lennox is the speaker in this video. I love the way that he beautifully breaks down the distinctive traits of Christianity. I hope you enjoy!
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I found Christ today, all day I’ve been crying in repentance and joy. I’ve never felt love this deep, caring, wise, warm, knowing he loves me and my life is meant for the better through him.
I regret ever rejecting him, the day I asked for help with sincerity in my heart he answered in the way that left me no doubt. I turned my back on god letting arrogance, sin, and temptation rule over me. Despite my indifference, me leaving him.
My lord never left me
He advised me, guided me, protected me, and loved me the entire way back to him. It’s only now I realize how blind, dismissive, disrespectful, and ignorant I was towards him my entire life. Yet he was right there by my side.
I LOVE YOU LORD!
Thank you for the video; praise Jesus our savior. Amen!
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Psalm 137:9. 😃
This made my day! I am SO happy for you. Welcome to The Kingdom & please let me know if you need anything 🫶
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So happy for you! May God protect,guide and bless you!❤
"Christianity isn't a religion its a relationship" I've never heard it put so accurately and so eloquently
Except that it is a religion. Just because someone says something doesn't change the fact that it's a religion by every definition. Every religion teaches a relationship with its diety. What's different? Nothing.
@@Spectre-wd9dl It's a religion but not a doctrine. In Christianity whether you believe in Jesus or not, He looks at the heart. One might confuse relationships to parents or the state as authoritative forces which are often confused with Christianity. It is however historically true, ego inflations within authoritative forces punish like they're God. That's completely wrong whether identified as a believer or not. You find the pattern all around in humans once they're confronted to the unknown.
Christ is life lived, just as described "through the good and bad times". I have realised from the 3 Abraham religions that Judaism and Islam are social collectives with their 'identity' just as we see today in wokeness. In christianity I find myself home in Christ as an individual and never have the idea i'm in a social collective. It's just like "the West", individual families that live. It is personal, the notion is often confused and overlapping with psychology. If you reflect and live life, improve upon yourself, you're good. In christ you are a sinner and that's not to be understood as bad thing but as a human thing. Once you see the connections between your consciousness and life, that you'll deeply touched and understand what spirit is. It is often when people leave religion, they find peace and autonomy. The old testaments is horrendous and new testament (Jesus Christ) perfectly fits modern age. In these post modernist age, it is all identity above truth, "new - ..., new-age". It's all an attempt to create a new God.
@@Spectre-wd9dlevery religion teaches a relationship towards its diety, but not every religion teaches that all it requires is a relationship with the diety.
@@Spectre-wd9dlYes, Christianity is a religion. The difference is the person of God as Jesus came to the earth to save his people. God comes to his people - it is not that way in other religions.
@@Spectre-wd9dlwhat every other religion does is that it supports sin and keeps people living in it. Religious people pretend to do religious things to seem good while they themselves remain unchanged. The Bible says that if somebody is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old things are past and behold the new has com.
Christianity is different because of Christ alone. No one else in history claimed to come for the purpose of saving the lost
Well said
Hallelujah
Actually every religion has at least one person who has claimed that😅😂😂
@@Asmodeus406And who exactly are they?
@@Vaxxedhole ahh don't get into our thing we have like 1000s of them. I'm talking about binary logic people/Yes or no guys/ my way or the 🛣️ people. Even each and everyone of them have one😅
I’ve been a Christian for years…I have never heard our faith explained so well. It makes me want to go and tell the world ❤
This is the way
Mark 16 15
My mom literally just explained this and I watched this video 20 mins later. She explained it with the book of job. I haven't read yet God has called me to read John and now Luke. I am new in my faith. She explained the story and the basis of Christianity thus why we have Jesus or one of the reasons.
@@RareEpicMusic lmao read romans
@@RareEpicMusic and ephesians
I left Islam and found Christ hallelujah thank god 🙏🙏🙏
Keep that faith.
How many rakat in Al fatiha?
From pan to fire
@JesusSaves14323 Xty concepts like sex less pregnancy, resurrection are illogical, unscientific stupidities of Xty.
1) They are pure lies
2) sexless pregnancy and resurrection are not at all holy. They are rather impossible magic, which the stupid Xty relies on
Awesome 😎. Exactly Professor John Lennox showing the hypocritical double standards that Atheists have for religious beliefs and theism that they don't apply to what Atheists do. I used to be an atheist and agnostic but they're both assumptions about reality made without any evidence just emotional arguments and strawman arguments against Christianity and theism. Creation and design requires a Creator we call God. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " On The Origin of Species" and I'm not convinced of macro Evolutionary biology whereas I accept micro Evolution like speciation and adaptation but not macro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
This had me crying because it just hit home how much my Lord loves me and even though I call myself a Christian, I just dont get it fully and understand the depth of His love for me. THANK YOU for posting this video.
I'm the same
You're not alone. Many Christians, including me, really don't understand the depth of love God has for fallen beings. May God open our eyes.
Love it, for anyone wanting scientific evidence that supports the Bible as a accurate historical account, please watch "Is Genesis History". Anyone who says, there is no evidence, simply isn't willing to do the research.
Mr. Lennox is a very likeable person and I enjoy listening to him. However, it's best when he sticks to the science area of believing in God and The Bible.
He said regarding Jesus saying: "...that if we listen to him and accept his word and believed on him as the savior as the son of God, we would have in that moment eternal life and we would not come into judgement..." is why he should not teach matters spiritual of God or Jesus or the apostles. Because, if Lennox's interpretations were true, and additionally that good works "are not the basis of acceptance," there would have been absolutely no need for any followers of Jesus and True Christians of the first (and somewhat into the second) century AD to have kept teaching and preaching Gods good news at the risk of losing their jobs, going to prison, to be beaten and whipped, tortured and murdered, all described in The Bible and in academic/secular writings, if works were not Needed. "Faith without works is useless" and "faith without works is dead" and "Nevertheless, someone will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." (James 2:20; 2:26; 2:18). Too many of you intentionally ignore Gods words for the sake of your traditions, because your traditions benefit and suit you better, and not Gods word.
@@markuse3472 ''Because, if Lennox's interpretations were true, and additionally that good works "are not the basis of acceptance,"
Lennox is right. You are saved by grace THROUGH faith. Salvation is given when you confess Christ and repent of your sins. From that moment, you are considered a child of God. Then we begin to live by faith/trust. But like you said, faith is dead without works. We do good works because God has saved us, not so God can save us. That's the huge difference between a life of trusting God and a life of works for salvation sake.
Picking up the bible and reading it for myself, changed everything for me. ❤
Did you like the parts with mental torture, incest, murder, genocide and specicide? 😃
Psalm 137:9. 😃
@stevenweint7893 you listed more than one part, please do provide chapter and verse for each 😀
Why does the Trinity not appear in the Bible?peace;;.,mm..
@@lufhopespeacefully2037 serious question: have you even read the bible?
Matthew 28:192, 2 Corinthians 13:14, 1 Corinthians 12:4-5, Ephesians 4:4-6, 1 Peter 1:2, and Revelation 1:4-6
Ive been dealing with addiction for years as a Christian. This video came up and i usually dont click on "Christian" videos a lot anymore since i was saved but this came up and for some reason i clicked it and loved it. Thanks man. Praise our Lord!! He's definitely using you Brother 👍
@@zacharypeloquin340 Wholeheartedly work the twelve steps as they are laid out in the Big Book and your addiction can be solved by God.
To me, when I was a kid and a young adult, I always thought that Christianity is so boring and restrictive compared to other religions.i was attracted to my mother's religion the most which is Hinduism. I also became interested in new age and Buddhism later and the religion of my school friends which was Islam. I even was curious about witchcraft and law of attraction - what's the difference between all of those? To me, I found that, my boring Christianity was my safe place. My boring Shephard was where I would run to for safety when I got scared when I was sad or I hurt myself. About ten years ago I then realized that Christ was the only one. I went back to church but kept the new age things I liked, as tarot and manifestation. My Church seemed to somewhat ride that wave too. But Glory to Jesus! About three years ago, I guess my Shephard had enough since I was basically so depressed and hopeless I wanted to die. He asked me to come and truly know him. I said yes. I have never been better inside and never been more in love.❤️❤️❤️ His kindness is sometimes overwhelming and he is so reall - that is the difference.
Thank you for sharing this!! He is so patient with us with a never giving up kind of love ❤️
John 5:25-27-“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself; And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man.”
John 12:34
So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
John 6:53
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John 6:27
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
John 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
Luke 22:22
For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”
Mark 14:21
For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew 24:
Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 24:39
And they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:37
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:30
Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 12:40
You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
Luke 9:58
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Mark 14:62
And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
Mark 9:12
And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
Matthew 12:40
For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
John 12:23
And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Mark 9:31
For he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”
John 8:28
So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
Daniel 7:13
“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
@@stephenwatts2649 the bible is ridiculous.there have been 7,000 plus gods that have been proposed by humans over time in hundreds of different languages and in hundreds of different countries.there is not and never has been the slightest evidence that any of them are real.Christianity is a human blood sacrifice cult that should be in libraries in the section marked Mythology. I am sorry that people whom you trusted fed you this ridiculous bronze age nonsense told by fearful uneducated superstitious misogynistic bronze age desert tribesmen in the most backward part of the middle east.
What a beautiful testimony!
In the beginning was the Word, and 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 was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:1-14 KJV
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John 6:38 KJV
Love it. At 38, I have lived the Christian life for 33 years. Through faith, love, failure, and doubt. I can't believe I still believe...I'm too logical and skeptical. The fact that I still love, yearn for, and pursue Christ is proof enough for me that He is the I AM. Praise the resurrected Lord!
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
The "I AM" exists with or without JC. If it takes your belief and faith in him to accept it, well, so be it. But a blind-faith belief in him is not necessary to experience the beauty and the freedom of being here now, in the moment. We are all on our own path. Nothing wrong with religion, as long as the practitioners of that religion are not so arrogant as to think that THEIR God, THEIR way, THEIR beliefs are only way to "salvation."
LOL. Logic has nothing to do with Faith or religion my friend.
@@rickarmstrong9660You missed. Jesus Christ IS the "I AM" John 8-58, 4-26. Note: The word "he" is in italics which means it was added by the translators. Jesus was also in the OT Ex 3-14.
Sir, according to our tradition inherited from our forefathers.we still believe in only one "creator" .so this mean that if we Don't believe in christ.we all die or become sinner.
I read somewhere that CS Lewis once walked into a room where there was a lively discussion on how Christianity differs from all other world views. "What's all this about then?" asked Lewis. Upon learning what was being discussed he replied, "Oh that's easy. Grace." This was very similar and indeed, at the end of the day, it is the difference. Great content, loved it 😇✝️
wow, he said something completely meaningless. so deep.
you didn't get it?. @@mnmnrt
Exactly 💯. Professor John Lennox showing how Christianity is different from other religions and the hypocritical double standards that Atheists have for religious beliefs and theism that they don't apply to what Atheists do. I used to be an atheist and agnostic but they're both assumptions about reality made without any evidence just emotional arguments and strawman arguments against Christianity and theism. Creation and design requires a Creator we call God. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " On The Origin of Species" and I'm not convinced of macro Evolutionary biology whereas I accept micro Evolution like speciation and adaptation but not macro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
@@mnmnrt u guys are so slaved of the evils that u guys cant accept reality
@@sunnydaze1185just because someone disagrees with you, or voices an opinion you dislike or reject, doesn’t mean they ‘didn’t get it’. By that logic I am entitled to say that any theist who continues to believe in God despite centuries of writing that has shown the very idea of God to be inconsistent simply doesn’t get it.
I prayed to Christ when I was in a dark place and he listened and saved me from many vices. He is real and my love for him grows with each day. Thank you Lord for all you've done.
In just a few minutes, this wonderful Gentleman has changed my whole perspective of my life as a Christian.
I am so thankful to God that he put this here now.
Church leaders need to hear this man.
Thank you for sharing this Gentleman.
That’s amazing to hear!! ❤️🙏
Mr. Lennox is a very likeable person and I enjoy listening to him. However, it's best when he sticks to the science area of believing in God and The Bible.
He said regarding Jesus saying: "...that if we listen to him and accept his word and believed on him as the savior as the son of God, we would have in that moment eternal life and we would not come into judgement..." is why he should not teach matters spiritual of God or Jesus or the apostles. Because, if Lennox's interpretations were true, and additionally that good works "are not the basis of acceptance," there would have been absolutely no need for any followers of Jesus and True Christians of the first (and somewhat into the second) century AD to have kept teaching and preaching Gods good news at the risk of losing their jobs, going to prison, to be beaten and whipped, tortured and murdered, all described in The Bible and in academic/secular writings, if works were not Needed. "Faith without works is useless" and "faith without works is dead" and "Nevertheless, someone will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." (James 2:20; 2:26; 2:18). Too many of you intentionally ignore Gods words for the sake of your traditions, because your traditions benefit and suit you better, and not Gods word.
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
God is a piece of shit
How blessed we are to be living in a time when we can sit back and enjoy the wisdom of John Lennox. Thanks for posting.
John Lennon is better.
@@SeptemberChild1835he be dead
Christianity is great because I love it and the Bible proves the Bible. That was his whole speech as such it is really nonsensical to say anything else.
@@gamingdragon1356
LOL! the bible proves the bible is circular reasoning... which is logically fallacious. ffs.
@@gamingdragon1356that wasn't his claim. The Bible is not the only source that proves Christ lived and suffered crucifixion. It was a historical fact according to historical evidence.
The biblical writings were not even a "Bible" as we know it today. They were rather people writing eyewitness accounts from first hand (or possibly second hand) accounts. They weren't written by people writing fiction because they felt like it on a whim. The writings came out of people's experiences.
There are other writings in history too about Jesus outside of the Bible. It's possible that you have heard of them?
I love that he uses marriage as a vision of why and how Christianity isn’t a human-merit-based religion - and has good foundation to do so, since God uses marriage as His foundation both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. Well done!
The church is the bride of Christ. It was a beautiful illustration.
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
the greatest aspect of you channel is how you take the most brilliant minds and bring their thoughts down to a level others can understand... thank you for what you do...
As a Christian myself, when the relationship and no-works acceptance of the poor sinner is explained well, I can't help but cry, because of the beautiful sacrifice and offer Jesus made to us all.
What sacrifice? He went to live in heaven forever. His suffering was no greater than that of countless millions of humans before and after him. Cance rpatients every day endure more suffering than the alleged Jesus ever did.
Amen2That
@@richardgregory3684 So you would rather be beaten, flogged, thorns placed on your head, spit on, be ridiculed, and hung on a cross until you bled out, all while being completely innocent, never having wronged a person in your life? I guess you see what all atheists see when they look in the mirror, a freak of nature.
@@richardgregory3684 Crucifixion was a horrible, painful way of dying, but that wasn't the only way he suffered. He also took on the all wrath that was meant for us, and he also became completely cut off from his Father as well during that time. So he suffered immensely in a physical, emotional and spiritual way all at the same time
@@MNKYTECH For how long? And knowing that afterwards he'd go to heaven forever?
amazing amazing amazing!!! I was born catholic, and sort of strayed away from religion as I got older. But now, my eyes and heart are opening to the beautiful possibility of God and Jesus Christ. I feel this great sense of excitement in my chest. Thank you so much for this video. You are absolutely amazing!!!
Jesus Christ is God.
I hope you know that.
Catholics are not Christians.
They are their own religion.
They have their own beliefs.
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
As I see things, the Catholic Church is most interested in chaining people to it, making them feel beholding to it, and tethering their souls to the organized Catholic system. This is plainly evil. Be set free from all the ritual, the traditions, the myths that are drowning you and your soul. Worship God and His Son alone, read Scripture for yourself, and invite the Holy Spirit to teach and guide you into all truth. Be set free, and be released from the chains that bind you to the Catholic Church.
I believe Catholic Church teaches, Catholic Church is the Church of Jesus Christ,
deepen your Catholic faith by reading the Bible cover to cover. you will appreciate how the Catholic church came from the Bible.
“You would never insult a fellow human being by basing a relationship on merit”. That is powerful!
"We are only insulted by that which we allow ourselves to be insulted." - Atheist Angel
Proclaiming someone to be all good and all powerful and yet holding them to a standard of even less than fallable man is insulting.
@@ou812invu6 "Insulting" to whom?
Surely not a GOD?
I think it's far more insulting to a god to assume it has human emotions.
@@atheistangel007 Insulting to my intelligence.
@@ou812invu6 "Insulting to my intelligence."
Why are you allowing yourself to be insulted by something that would not insult a GOD? I mean, you can't even prove one exists, so I really don't see the point?
0:25: 🙌 John Lennox explains the difference between Christianity and other religions based on evidence and trust.
3:48: 📚 The speaker recalls a seminal experience at Trinity College Cambridge where he learned about a rational forensic defense of the resurrection of Jesus.
15:10: 💡 The speaker argues that if one does not preclude the supernatural possibility of the Resurrection, there are significant historic reasons to believe in its occurrence.
7:51: 🙏 Christianity is not a merit-based religion, but a relationship with God.
11:21: 💔 The video discusses how every person has fallen short of God's glory, but God still loves us and made a way for us to be righteous through Christ's sacrifice on the cross.
Recap by Tammy AI
What's one scripture that you believe says anything about a trinity or Christianity
Recap by Tammy AI? Who is this person, please?
There's no forensic evidence for the rise of Christ or that it even occurred, only a story that is demanded to believe because you to go to hell if you don't. But god loves you.
There's no evidence, but he demand only trust his story & questioning it is just silly. In the end, Lennox is just one more church preacher preaching the same thing other preacher preach in church to their flock all the time. I see nothing new from Lennox's preaching.
To talk about how ONLY YOUR magick sky wizard is actually based in fact and not faith like the other beliefs really just... makes you sound incredibly insecure or arrogant
This literally is just a video of him saying "im right and every other beliefs are wrong and blind faith, and we have evidence because we have all of these books containing magick.
Its like saying im right and have evidence, because i decided it to be so
Its more making god in your own image than being any sort of open or receptive to truth
If all you can do is try to blanket the other groups as crazy extremists listening to devils and schizophrenic paranoid delusion, you dont have an argument because literally every one of your arguments applies just as much to your religion
Saying MERIT loudly with conviction does not give you more merit
You will look at older sanskrit stories claiming to be true and you will dismiss it and say they are just fairy tales for their magic elements and philosophy, but then literally say your religion is right dispite literally only popping up thousands of years later in documents that have no sources or witnesses and you just handwave the Contradictions away by falling back on a belief that "oh, the true story was always known, just not written down because everybody knew it"
That is the limit of your evidence, but you dismiss claims documents and stories of other faiths as just made up while falling back on a faith without evidence or documentation to support the claim that your stories are the real truth
These people are literally so clueless and confused its like the sun tzu meme "to confuse your enemy you must first confuse yourself"
They say other beliefs are just made up, but dismiss historic document trails and literally history carved in stone to believe a story that literally has no observable evidence or history was real instead
The thing about comparing jesus to the ceasars is we can dig them up and fucking blood sample them, but somehow we cant seen to find the cave with a blood sample to confirm the ressurection of the chosen one... with all those claimed fictional witnesses and worshippers... how odd right?
Because the thing is, history DOES leave observable testable reaults in a lab, but no such thing has ever been found to confirm Christianity
You would literally rather remain ignorant to the fact that we have the rest of the historical records and events from the time period and area but mysteriously no records confirming the events have ever been found... unless, that "hole in the records" is just a lack of records or evidence...
Basically you're all narcissistic hypocrites
@@binkbonkbones3402 look up the Shroud of Turin
What I find fascinating is that the more I study the Old Testament, the more I discover that this principle of acceptance at the beginning was true even then. For example Abraham believed and it was credited to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6).
How does this reflect acceptance: "Then he (Moses) said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor. The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died." Ex. 32: 27, 28
Abraham is the father of all believers based on the principle Jesus put forward.
It is not acceptance. In context, Lennox said believe, have faith and you will be granted grace and mercy. Those who were slain were un believing and un faithful. Therefore they shunned the Lord and vengence/justice was enacted by God for God through the hand of the Levites. Big difference. Context matters.
Exactly 💯. Professor John Lennox showing how Christianity is different from other religions and the hypocritical double standards that Atheists have for religious beliefs and theism that they don't apply to what Atheists do. I used to be an atheist and agnostic but they're both assumptions about reality made without any evidence just emotional arguments and strawman arguments against Christianity and theism. Creation and design requires a Creator we call God. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " On The Origin of Species" and I'm not convinced of macro Evolutionary biology whereas I accept micro Evolution like speciation and adaptation but not macro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
I LOVED THAT HE SAYS THAT CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A RELIGION IT IS A RELATIONSHIP! ❤
I'm an apologetist at school, and when I suggest the idea that Christianity is a relationship with God, it's like I'm speaking an unfathomable langauge. Faces people pull at me give the impression that their faith has nothing to do with unconditional love. A fact as simple as the God that created everything would want us to understand and be with him is absolutely crazy and makes no sense to my friends. They see it as a "religion". Do this and this will happen. Do it enough times and God will let you through the white purely gates of heaven.
Exactly! Christianity is not a "religion" (whatever this word even means). Christianity is truth. And it is a relationship!
It's both. Read the KJV book of James.
You can call it whatever you want to try and make you feel better about your faith, but make no mistake, you cannot have a "relationship" with a myth or a dead guy.
Christianity is a RELIGION by definition. It is no better than any other religion, you have no more proof for your god or claims than any other religion.
So when Christians call their RELIGION a "relationship", of course we are going to look at you even more strangely than we already do.
@@MacacoMoninheiro And that surprises you, does it?
The point that Lennox made is why I left the church and became atheist for several years in my college days. I couldn't fathom that "there's nothing I can say or do to earn my salvation". I hope people of other faiths can one day realize how radical and insane this is, it took me 20+ years. God knew I'd have this struggle, which is why he's always made Titus 3:5 the only Bible verse I've ever had memorized my whole life, even though for much of it I wasn't Christian.
"He saved us, not because of the righteous things we have done, but because of his mercy"
Thank God for John Lennox 🙏❤ Praise God, he just explained Christianity in its simplicity, yet its so complex men can't comprehend. Praise God ❤🎉
@@dejavuboomangah6119 how do you know he explain it correctly then 🤣🤣🤣. Religious are the champions for saying so much shit it's nuts...
This video is amazing. It’s not a religion. It’s a relationship.
Yes!! That’s it!
How is it a relationship?
It’s 100% a religion.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. 27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Christianity is about establishing a relationship with God through religion. Ppl often parrot the "Christianity is not a religion" phrase because they're practicing a version of it that allows them to define the relationship on their own terms. It is safe to assume that such ppl are following a version of God that is more convenient for them and not the God in the Bible. Christ stated in John that whoever loves Him will live by His commandments. That is religion.
@@theeternalsbeliever1779 Religion is a man made system of rules and rituals ,
Christianity is different because it has its origin from God, and is not a man made system, so Christianity is not a religion. ❤
Very well explained. You know, I have felt this way for a long time, but never seen it explained this way on TH-cam. Great stuff ❤
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
This is a very nice video. Growing up as a Jehovah Witnesses we were taught we had to go door to door for salvation. Basically free labor for them. This video clears that up
You were also taught that Jesus was not God (no Trinity) but Michael the Archangel in disguise. Am glad you are no longer a JW
@@Monkofmagnesia they just made stuff up to be different. Best thing I ever did was leave them.
I was the same brother , Praise King YESHUA !
Brother!!!!
The whole world just gets better when I hear another Christian brother or sister talk. Thank you for this video, as it's a GREAT one to PASS ON!!!
May God continue to bless you.
I’m still wiping my tears! What a beautiful, amazing message and commentary!!! Thank you!!! My love and prayers are with you and all!!!🕊✝️💞
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
I’ve always been a Christian / Grew up in a Methodist family. I just wanted to say no matter how lost you or I became Gods love reaches out even when I feel most lost because or shall I say His timing , it’s a miracle in it’s self. I’ve always accepted Him. His always with us. In my most worst time trying to make spiritual (Tarot) work with Christianity got me really lost and at my worst time God still reached out to me with addressing what I really needed to hear by something I was concerned about and continues the relationship because He is real and loving ❤
Wow! If only more pastors could speak with this compassion and intelligence in the UK! Providence brought me here tonight.
Be blessed!
"Providence brought me here tonight."
Nah, I bet it was the TH-cam algorithm god.
@@atheistangel007key word, “god”. God brought him here. That TH-cam god is dead lol
@@Alex-ns6hj "key word, “god”. God brought him here."
Yes, except that you have as much evidence to be able to prove your god exists, as I do proving the TH-cam god exists.
"That TH-cam god is dead"
All "gods" are.
@@atheistangel007 there is irrefutable evidence that God exists. The supreme God, God over gods. I'm glad to challenge the idea that there is "as much evidence" to support the TH-cam god over the real God of the Bible. The Hebrew Bible. I don't want to write a whole essay online right now but you should check out some Christian apologists and theologians.
That was amazing 🙏🏻❤️ Thank you for posting… I’m going to share the good news here, with all my friends and family,
God Bless
What an intellectual explanation of the "relationship" with Christ, my Lord and Savior. Absolutely loved it.
Thanks for sharing this. Blessings.
This guy has a very efficient, elegant thought process and simple explanation. That is the mark of genius.
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
That is the mark of smugness and arrogance. There are plenty of people at least as eloquent as he is who have made intelligent counterarguments in support of NOT believing in the anthropomorphic, caricatured Christian God.
@@rickarmstrong9660 ok
@@rickarmstrong9660 Counterarguments that do nothing to properly critique the evidence for Christianity.
That is the mark of reality,knowing of it
This video is the most profound that I have ever found on youtube. Praise the lord that I found you and God bless you for your work in spreading this information. I became Christian, was baptized in our church, Sweden, two years ago. Was in theology teaching and understood profoundly that Jesus is the only way, truth and life. Who ever believe in him will never perish. I love the statement, Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship. Beautifully said! Sending blessings from Sweden 🙋🏻♀️
How's this for profound?
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tactically that not right lol you cant just become a Christian means Caspian
@@allmightlionthunder5515 I was baptized in our church, Sweden. Got theology lessons from a Priest. 😊
Oh Prof Lennox thank you for sharing your wisdom with me. Tears are rolling down my cheeks while listening to you ... and then I know our God is well pleased. Thank you Prof, what a privilege to share our love for Jesus.
What a fabulous testimony to the truth of our faith. I just found your channel and I’m so inspired by you and your content. You’re so articulate and intelligent. Yours is one of the best Christian channels on TH-cam, and I won’t miss a single episode!
Why does the Trinity not appear in the Bible?peace;;.,mm..
@@lufhopespeacefully2037 Be careful, they will twist the Scriptures to suit their traditional beliefs.
But yes, it does not ever suggest a trinity.
@@markuse3472 ,hi markuse,as far as i know, trinity is an old worshipping for some an egyptians who have worshipped ezice,authorice&hurce ,later on the church has abducted the notion,have u read quran
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
@@lufhopespeacefully2037John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and *the Word was God* .
John 1:14
*And the Word was made flesh* , and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
1 John 5:7
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and *these three are one* .
It's like my relationship with my dog. I love him unconditionally and would do anything for him. I know he's not the smartest of doggos, but he is incredibly sweet. I did my best to teach him the rules and how to be, but to him he can't comprehend the full picture, and I know that he never will. And yet I try to get him off the leash as much as possible, give him as much freedom as I'm allowed to, and trust him to be good as much as I can. So I know he will make mistakes, but that doesn't matter because I already love him and will always accept his mistakes as something that comes with him. The result is that he is free to be himself, and his self is beautiful and he is adored by everyone who sees him because they can see the beauty of what a free, trusted, and loved dog looks like. And I hope I will see him in Heaven one day, and before then I will honor him in life and memory, because I know he would do the same for me.
Aw, this is a beautiful analogy. Made me tear up because I love my dog too. 😢 never seen this pov until now. 😊
Jesus explained this in Mt 7. There are only two trees. Christian faith that bears good fruit and all other religions that bear bad fruit.
What good fruit that christian faith bears?? ......... Highest divorce rate!, Highest infidelity!, empty churches! Full if wimp! (Jesus is just a joke for ur pple). .......... Dont be a couch potatos! go and see the world and compare ur "fruit" and other religion "fruits"!
That has little explanatory power to the non-believer, though. By itself, it’s an exclusivity claim that gives no evidence. This is why we bring the broader context and uniqueness of the whole gospel in. Not trying to nitpick or anything, I just think we believers need to really get in the mind of the skeptic to be more effective.
@@Papa-dopoulosHey there. Do you have books/blog recommendations to learn more of that?
@@Papa-dopoulos Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
John 20:29 KJV I tend to find that those who believe without all the evidence, though it be available, stand out as the blessed😊
@@nikao7751 Without question. Totally agree. This is almost totally beside my point, but agree.
I’m not saying “because we don’t have a photo of Jesus, quoting the Bible isn’t good enough.”
I’m saying “Choosing that particular verse over one that emphasizes eyewitness testimony, the resurrection, etc. is like saying ‘my answer is true because it is true.’l
This was your best video so far bro praise God. I’m gonna share this with those I love and know do not know Jesus. I love you dude. 🙏🏼👍🏼
Your point at around 3 minutes blew me away. I'm a Christian but I've never thought about that before so thanks
Oh, that’s great to hear!
your videos are so great man. I just started watching today and your theology and your understanding of the Word is just so valuable and great to have. Thank you for posting these videos man.
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
These are so dang good!! 👌🏼👍🏼💪🏼Thank you again for sharing these brother. Please keep them coming!
In all my 65 years, I have never heard such a clear and succinct lesson regarding Christianity.
It became clear to me that it was unique by observation, contemplation and deduction, especially during my travels around the world, primarily my ten years in Asia. I never could put my finger on it though.
I’ve been in and out of churches, starting in a Catholic family; mostly out. Enthralled by Buddhism and its trappings for much of the time I made pilgrimages to hundreds of those temples…
The good thing is that it kept God in focus for me most of the time even though Jesus seemed to be out of the picture.
Now I feel more at peace than ever from this simple yet profound lecture as I was recently told my neck cancer has spread to my lungs and is terminal.
Immunotherapy starts next week and is supposed to get me more time.
Either way, we’re all on the same train, just different stops.
Peace and love to you all, and fear not.
Excellent message which is so eloquently expressed both by John and by you. This difference between Christianity and other beliefs is what I have tried to point out to my Muslim friends. Had me in tears. God bless 🩷
So what do thPeter Lombard, cunt the Master of Sentences
“Therefore the elect shall go forth…to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious .” Sent. Iv 50, ad finese Xions say about the dead YOU FOOL
Martin Luther
When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, “Not in the least.”
Muslims are brain washed with lies about their religion and Christianity. So pray to them because even they want to convert they are afraid to be killed or the family turn their back on them.
Mr. Lennox is a very likeable person and I enjoy listening to him. However, it's best when he sticks to the science area of believing in God and The Bible.
He said regarding Jesus saying: "...that if we listen to him and accept his word and believed on him as the savior as the son of God, we would have in that moment eternal life and we would not come into judgement..." is why he should not teach matters spiritual of God or Jesus or the apostles. Because, if Lennox's interpretations were true, and additionally that good works "are not the basis of acceptance," there would have been absolutely no need for any followers of Jesus and True Christians of the first (and somewhat into the second) century AD to have kept teaching and preaching Gods good news at the risk of losing their jobs, going to prison, to be beaten and whipped, tortured and murdered, all described in The Bible and in academic/secular writings, if works were not Needed. "Faith without works is useless" and "faith without works is dead" and "Nevertheless, someone will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." (James 2:20; 2:26; 2:18). Too many of you intentionally ignore Gods words for the sake of your traditions, because your traditions benefit and suit you better, and not Gods word.
@@markuse3472 "... science area of believing in God and The Bible."
Believing is not science! It's the exact opposite!
Really though, actually read and understand the comment before you respond. Thanks.
Mr. Lennox and many other Honest scientists completely prove God and The Bible accurate and true, and evolution a complete lie.
I believe because I asked, rather flippantly, for God to show me something to make me believe. He did so immediately. And then I gradually found I no longer had anxieties that had plagued me. Belief has changed me in to a much nicer person.
John Lennox is a professor of Maths at Cambridge. A brilliant man, who I could listen to for hours. He is so clear headed.
he is also a liar ask me why he says Adam was first human made in bible NOT TRUE GOO seeker read 6th day again then come back i could explain but IT SO SIMPLE o use King James bible
@@ashwayn He never mentioned Adam. That makes you the liar. Now let us review the 6th day according to Genesis in the KJV (TL;DR: As we can see, you lied twice in one comment):
Genesis 1:23-31
[23] *And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.*
[24]And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
[25]And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
[26]And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
[27]So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
[28]And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
[29]And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
[30]And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
[31]And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. *And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.*
That was truly a blessed moment when he explains it. God Bless John Lennox for articulating that.
I have never seen Christianity explained this way. Ever. This is so fulfilling ❤
@donmek
“I have never seen Christianity [...] This is so fulfilling ❤”
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It *IS* indeed fulfilling-as long as one prefers the filling to be made of mumbo-jumbo claims.
@@ex.hindu.now.atheist so disprove the mumbo jumbo to me
@@donmek
"so disprove the mumbo jumbo to me"
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Belief that there is a 3-in-1 god who...
as a "spirit" did a human woman,
and then was born as a son to himself as a result of his own doing the above-said human woman,
and then was killed as a so-called sacrifice in order to wash away the so-called sin-that I have supposedly inherited-that was committed by a couple of ancestors in a garden that the 3-in-1 god had created when he was in the form of the father.
Had this same thing been mentioned in a story of a religion that you do not subscribe to, you yourself would have called it mumbo-jumbo.
@@donmek
so disprove the mumbo jumbo to me
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The bible's mumbo-jumbo:
3-in-1 god who was born (on earth) to himself,
sacrificed himself to himself in order to help me to wash away some sins that I have inherited 'genetically' from some original ancestors who upset the 3-in-1 god by eating a fruit that a talking snake ('the enemy') tempted them into eating.
You are the one who makes the claim that this mumbo-jumbo is true.
So, it is up to you to prove that the mumbo-jumbo is true.
very..💜
Praise God for Prof Lennox!
He’s a gift & a blessing!
He truly is brilliant, he surely believes in OSAS!
I pray the Devine Goddess Hera remove his lies > WHAT IS YOUR GODS NAME ha ha ha you dont know you wassok
@profjohnkeminah7451 but Prof. Lennox provided no EVIDENCE for his claims.
@@vegandew You have to study the Bible prayerfully and ask the Holy Spirit to sensitize your inner man( your spirit)to enable you to see and comprehend the evidence Prof Lennox provided. I have read through the Bible 4 times. This apart, from my daily Bible reading sessions with the family previously in the morning but now at dawn, it wasn't difficult for me to make sense of what Prof Lennox said. The fact is that for any scripture to make sense to a person, he or she must have the same measure of anointing as the one who was first inspired by the Holy Spirit to speak or write that scripture. Everything Prof Lennox said agreed with the Bible.
In my mind’s eye, I am watching John Lennox and C.S.Lewis on stage, enlightening us all about our faith. The best of the best!!! God Bless us All🙏❣️
That analogy is fantastic! ❤. Sharing this with my children. 🙏🏻
It’s not a religion it’s a relationship what a wonderful line,thank you
It is a religion. And a relationship with absurdity.
My spiritual relationship with Lord Buddha and Jesus Christ has led me to enlightenment and intellectual superiority through the use of marijuana and psychedelics.
@@redavis6581 Sir, you can't worship both. It is said, "You shall have no other gods before me."
A relationship is an exchange of value or values, a good relation is like justice as it is an exchange of benificial value or values for equally benificial value or values. What equally benificial value or values do you offer your god in exchange for this god's benificial value or values he has supposedly given you? If there is not an equal exchange of value or values you may be in a bad relationship and if you can't demonstrate any exchange of value or values you probably do not have a relationship.
@@Call-me-Jesterthat exchange is made in love.
Your angle/explanation on how John wrote down his experiences and didn't know some day it would be added to this thing called the Bible was awsome. I've have certainly never thought about that. You can obviously look at the whole book and apply that concept. I will be using that way of explaining the book for the rest of my life.
Doesnt mean its any more reliable? Literally doesnt change anything about the reliability of the Bible except for perhaps the texts they chose to use would all have a confirmation bias
I just love to see how God is using you to spread the gospel through this channel. Praying for you here in Dallas Theological Seminary 🙏!
This warms and softens my heart man, so well said. Both yours and Lennox's words were so good
There aren't different types of Christians.
Christianity isn't a branch of different religions/denominations.
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
*There aren't different ways to Heaven, there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.*
These fake religions have beliefs, teachings, ideologies, rules, and traditions THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE.
If you practise something in your religion that you can't find anywhere in the Bible, you are not a Christian (a follower of Jesus Christ).
So beautiful. Both Prof Lennox and your commentary. Thank you ❤
Nice to see such videos to deepen the faith of those who think that Christianity is losing ground. Keep it up guys
Can I just say thank you for not interrupting like a lot of channels do. Thank you!
Lennox is one of the best. He always has me crying for joy.
Yeah but I always grew up with microsoft windows but its gone downhill and as far as I can tell. Not what it used to be. Bloated slow and corrupt
Well, it only means that you are emotional for no reason.Lennox is simply desperate to believe.There is no proof for christianty, islam or any other religion to be correct.To be honest, l dont think that atheism is right neither.It had to be some force that created matter and laws of our universe, but that force does not give a f..k about our actions, thoughts, feelings...We are just super-tiny fragment of universe and nothing more important than asteroids, comets or anything elese in the universe.All you christians, muslims, jews believe about God being kind of "Big brother" is utterly stupid and silly.
@@TheAnnoyingBoss You seem sidetracked, boss. B vitamins will help you focus. Jesus will save your soul if you let him.
“ I don’t do this to earn Gods acceptance, I do them bc I’ve already got it” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Verse of the millennium
God does accept but does this "I do them bc I’ve already got it" mean God accepted everyone alread? even a murderer, a terrorist, a rapist or a child abuser or a thief or something like that? if God already accepted everyone then people would not grow themselves to be good. it has to be done for God's acceptance otherwise you will not improve or correct yourself because God accepted you already as you are.. doesn't this make sense?
Which "Christianity" is this video recommending?
@@gaarakazekage8630 God accepts those who confess their sins and confess with their mouth and believe in their heart that Jesus was and is who he says he is and did what he said he would do 2,000 years ago on that cross and rise again on the 3rd day. And I’d be careful bringing up rapist and murders and all these other evil acts and people as if you ( and me ) aren’t a part of the evil problem. Idk you but I’m sure you’ve lied before, maybe stole when you were a kid, I’m sure you’ve cursed, and I’m sure you’ve cheated in some sense. Now would I be right or wrong for calling you a lying, cheating, blasphemous, thief ?? But see how you can still ask for forgiveness and get accepted ? Same for those other people you mentioned. We are all part of the problem of evil that’s why we need Jesus.
@@dougy6237 the kind that follows Jesus Christ fully. The kind that has Jesus Christ as Lord of the whole world . The one that has Jesus Christ dying on the cross like he said he would and rising again in 3 days like he said he would. The one with the most sold books of all time and the one that’s the most historically accurate one of all time and the one that says Jesus is coming back again. That ones
@@Gtalktv I agree and you may not agree to this but I or you dont need Jesus (pbuh) i need his Lord (All praise to be Him).
the TV series The Chosen had helped my husband and I dramatically as far as seeing the bible and the disciples as not just a book, but real people. For us, God used the show to bring us back to his word and we've remained in it daily and started reading with our kids. I recommend giving the series a chance if you havent !
Please read the bible. That show is heresy.
@@jillsmith1134
She literally said the show brought her back to his word.
God uses all kinds of things to bring people to him. Stop getting caught up on the TV show and get captivated by how God shepherds his flock!
True but learn about the sacred tradition also. This will lead you to true faith which many in the world reject. God Bless!!
@@jillsmith1134
John Lennox was blessed with a powerful mind , that he can explain things so well that even a child would clearly understand. Able to share our wonderful Lord and Savior to the masses.
A child will understand, but an adult would see through. Children will accept the truth of anything you tell them. Hence Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and children's fiction in general.
They don't require explanatory depth!
I didn’t know Lennox until recently, but his theology is so in line with scripture, and his illustrations are stellar. I agree with you that his cook book analogy is one of the simplest and best I’ve ever heard. Thank you for the amazing enlightenment, brother!!!
I do not need faith to believe in God, His existence is obvious. I need faith to trust Him.
Faith, trust and belief are synonyms... Trusting in Jesus alone for salvation is the same as believing in him and having faith. You need to study the Bible...
your comment is a result of the regrettable semantic shift of the meaning of the word faith. in the past, your sentence would have been a redundancy.
In the biblical sense, they’re not always synonyms it says in James that the demons believe and tremble but faith without works is dead so it does make a distinction between the two.
Now I like that .
I don’t need a book to tell me anything , I just believe there is something bigger than us all , there has to be .
And I’ll leave it at that 👍
@@bradhobbs3447 you don’t need a book to believe in God, but you do need his word to know what he loves and hates, what is right and what is wrong and what he asks of you. How to defend yourself against the enemy, how to pray how to please him how to be close to him, had to be reconciled to him because of our sin. If it wasn’t for scripture, I wouldn’t even know I needed to be saved. Death came into the world thru sin. EVERYONE has sinned, big or small. God is a just, He’s perfect and sin like crime cannot go unpunished by a good judge. We will all be judged for our crimes against God. Doing good cant erase the bad. If ur charged with robbery in court the charges aren’t dropped bc you gave the money to charity. You’re in court for your crime, you could’ve done a million good deeds they won’t matter. U won’t be set free bc ur sorry either, u should be, your punishment stands. On judgment day every person will be held accountable and the sentence is death and ETERNAL separation from God in hell. But God is merciful and He loves us more than we can understand, but sin cannot go unpunished. So God became Man. He lived a perfect life and never sinned, then He willingly died a horrific death for us, taking the punishment we deserve. Just before passing He said, “it is finished.” Our debt was paid in full. But thats not it He rose from the dead, defeating death, proving that He is who He says He is and like He took our place ,we take His place as children of God. IF we Confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord, and believe in our hearts that God raised him from the dead, we will be saved, given eternal life and be filled with the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the father except thru Him.
"I don't grow apples to be an apple tree. I grow apples because I am an apple tree." I don't turn from sin to be a Christian, I turn from sin because I am a Christian.
Thank you so much for these posts. I have gained much encouragement from them !!
Always love hearing John Lennox speak of his faith. Always draws me into worship of our great God. God's majesty, goodness, mercy, kindness, compassion, faithfulness, beauty all displayed in His Son.
If we are saved by works, then hell is big place. John Lennox is an amazing speaker and communicator. Just had a discussion with some friends and a relative the other day. I could tell that they basically believed that they were not capable of living a good enough life to get God's acceptance. I told them that becoming a believer doesn't mean that you will be perfect afterwards, that you will not sin anymore. I told them that it means that you will recognize your sin, and that at the same time you will recognize the need for a savior. Jesus did all the work on the cross, accept it.
Don’t forget, god and jesus are myths! 😃
@@SeptemberChild1835 lol
Why does the Trinity not appear in the Bible?peace;;.,mm..
How relaxing to know I get to go to heaven because of Christ’s work and not my own. I could never do enough to equal the cross. Impossible.
Pride often makes people want to earn something. They are too good to take charity so they are going to wear themselves out earning it. In other words, they make Christianity slavery.
That was wonderful ❤ !!!! Thanks 🙏 for sharing this with us !!!
First let me say that I am a believer and follower of Jesus.
But I'm constantly putting myself in the mind of the skeptic. Not to disprove, but to be thoroughly equipped to give an answer for the hope.
That being said, I have to be a contrarian to something you said, for the sake of being as completely intellectually honest as possible.
You said that John did not know there would be a "Bible", and that he was just sharing his experiences and thoughts basically.
But it could be argued that he did at least have an idea that what he was writing would be read and included in at least some collective thought that reached many people.
Because he didn't write it as if it were a daily journal entry. He was addressing a reader (readers) to convey the point that what is written is designed for a purpose.
Just something to consider when making a statement like that. Because if I thought it, someone else surely will as well.
God bless you for the work you do in service. Shalom
Thank God for the life of Dr John Lannox, for explaining the gospel of Christ in clarity and patience 🙏
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video! What an amazing description of how Christianity is different than any other religion. John Lennox is such a treasure!
I prefer John Lennon.
but Christianity isn't different from every other religion, You all sell snake oil, you all push faith and a holy book and you all claim there is a God.....
Mr. Lennox is a very likeable person and I enjoy listening to him. However, it's best when he sticks to the science area of believing in God and The Bible.
He said regarding Jesus saying: "...that if we listen to him and accept his word and believed on him as the savior as the son of God, we would have in that moment eternal life and we would not come into judgement..." is why he should not teach matters spiritual of God or Jesus or the apostles. Because, if Lennox's interpretations were true, and additionally that good works "are not the basis of acceptance," there would have been absolutely no need for any followers of Jesus and True Christians of the first (and somewhat into the second) century AD to have kept teaching and preaching Gods good news at the risk of losing their jobs, going to prison, to be beaten and whipped, tortured and murdered, all described in The Bible and in academic/secular writings, if works were not Needed. "Faith without works is useless" and "faith without works is dead" and "Nevertheless, someone will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." (James 2:20; 2:26; 2:18). Too many of you intentionally ignore Gods words for the sake of your traditions, because your traditions benefit and suit you better, and not Gods word.
@@markuse3472Works are indeed needed, but it is not a means of salvation but as a RESPONSE to accepting salvation. That is why James said that Faith without works is dead. One can talk the talk, but if he cant walk the walk, his talk is meaningless. Works is intended OUTCOME of grace
Why does the Trinity not appear in the Bible? peace.
Love the way how God showed his love for us even when we were sinners thru Christ Jesus
Like kids dying of cancer?
This video brought me to tears and was a powerful reminder that there is nothing that we can do to win over the heart of God. Simply believing and putting our trust in Jesus Christ is all we need to experience real and authentic joy, peace, understanding, forgiveness, and relationship than anything else this world has to offer. When we try to make the Christian faith so complex we lose sight of the real simplicity in that while we were still sinners, Jesus died for us. I am blessed to call Jesus my personal Lord and Savior and get the privilege and opportunity to seek Him out each and every day that God has blessed me with on this side of eternity. Thank you for these videos Brandon as they truly are a source of daily wisdom, understanding, and joy. May God bless you through this ministry!
Wonderful explanation and analogy, I was trying to explain this to someone last night, so this really helps me to go back and tell her and others more! Thank you🙏😇
John Lennox is absolutely one of the best. Love,love,love him💯✝️💞
given the comments I read here it looks like more Christian propaganda snake oil.
@@Stonemojo1If it's propaganda why waste your time watching it? Seems you're really drawn to propaganda
@@DBJ17TheBoSSs
To know what I'm talking about, it's not controversial.
Just like a an atheist I need to know the Bible better then a Bible believer if I'm going to argue a valid coherent point.
@@DBJ17TheBoSSs
that's like asking me
"Why do you waste time talking to idiots on the internet?".
it's my time to waste and anything you like doing isn't a waste of time.
My first step to learning faith started in college, when I started really nervous in a TT match. But once I started hitting my shots more and more and play the way I wanted, that's when I learned what real confidence was about. Basically, you don't just believe, and that you had to work to build it.
Sometime after, I learned about trust for children multiple times. How it is important to fulfill their needs. The message is very clear. These things need something of substance for them to be based on.
Then after watching JBP and several other videos with people testifying that science actually supports Christianity, and other pieces of knowledge falling into place, that's when I finally pieced it together. Trust and confidence are built. Shouldn't faith be the same? That's the only way it would make sense.
And then there's also looking up the origins of the relevant words, and boy were they linked. Definitely, faith should not be blind.
@JiraiyaSama86 - Saving Faith is not learned! Saving Faith is a gift of God! For we do not believe through our own faith mustered within ourselves. No, that faith is simply never strong enough! Ephesians 2:8-9 says this: For it is by grace that ye are saved, through faith, but this not of yourselves it is the gift of God; not of works lest any man should boast. Then Galatians 2:20 says this: For I am crucified with Christ, yet I live, but not I that lives it is Christ who lives within me, and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God; Who loves me and gave His life for me. " Faith Of " KJV - Correct, " faith in " incorrect, almost all other translations or Satan at work.
Then Christ Himself goes as far as to pray this in John 17:20-21 - Christ prays: " I do not pray for these alone, but also for those that come to know Me by their word, that they all might be one, even as Thou Father art in Me and I in Thee, that they also might be in US, so that the world might believe that Thou didst send Me. "
God has started to place everything one by one into a moseic for me that I can barely even start to comprehend and the beauty is so emence that I wondered if I was losing my mind. Thanks for sharing and may the LORD bless you and make clear your beautiful unique path that all start at the same point of expectance of Christ and become it's own unique monocular partical of the body of Christ. 🙏✝️👑
Only a complete sicko worships a deity that drowns millions of babies
Perfect articulation both on your part as well as Lennox, brings tears to my eyes
I love listening to Lennox. He clears my mind. I asked God to help me believe in Him in my 50's. He showed me! I now believe that Everyone goes to heaven because God and Love are the same, and Christ came to save Everyone.
But , if you believe in the Christian God, your life on Earth is a relationship with Him. And that gives you peace and a desire to be loving. You may do wrong, but you feel you've let Him down if you do. You strive to do good because you are filled with love, not because you are earning brownie points.
"I asked God to help me believe in Him" makes no sense at all. Why would you ask something you don't believe in to help you believe in it?
@@burntgod7165 You can want to believe without actually believing yet. For instance, you may want to believe your wife is faithful in a specific situation, but you don't have the evidence or conviction yet, until she gives you reasons to believe.
@@MisterEvvvSymphoenix You can want to believe without actually believing in absolutely anything. Doesn't make it true. That is a ridiculous way to come to the truth of a claim. If you want to believe in any god -or any claim - the likelihood is that neurologically you will believe; your brain makes it happen. It is why people believe in conspiracy theorists without evidence.
Again this ridiculous "wife analaogy" from theists. If a pastor told you this one, then they didn't think things through-and neither did you.
I can demonstrate that my wife exists. You can't demonstrate your god exists. Although I don't know absolutely (there are no absolutes), i know to a high degree if certainty that she will be faithful to me through her words, her actions, her commitment - and those words, actions, commitment can de demonstrated to other people.
None of this is possible with a god.
You can't even demonstrate its existence.
So stop using that very bad analogy; it's fallacious.
Not everyone will go to heaven, only those who have a relationship with jesus and have been born again.
Its a fatal mistake to think everyone will go to heaven because god is love.
Don’t misunderstand god is love, abaolute love. Sin cannot exist in his presence and the only way we sinners can get cleaned from sin is trough the blood of jesus christ. So no if you dont believe in jesus and hos sacrifice you will not go to heaven
“You would never insult a fellow human being by basing a relationship on merit.”
Oh, ok. So instead of merit god bases our relationship with him on our propensity or ability to believe in the Bible (which, by the way, has no actual evidence for being the literal word of god). And so if we don’t believe due to our skepticism, we get an eternity in hell as a result.
That seems rather reasonable, don’t you think? Lol, the cooking analogy backfired hard. I understand what he was going for, but I’m afraid it feels a bit disingenuous in this context.
John Lennox does laughable nonsense.
Performance is the right word. Lennox grants himself license to weigh-in on whatnot as if Earth had gravity-free zones & other such magic. Gods, outside of fiction have a perfect record of doing nothing: Thus, we have the saying, God helps those helping themselves. Even the Christian bible holds the truth of faith being worthless, if you can't have mountains move at your command. Lennox gets off as a believer of his own nonsense. He is happy to entertain people with his spiritual fantasyland. Christians have no quality-controls, so Freud wrote the solution to Christianity is literacy. There is no distinction between fiction & non-fiction in their library. The important thing is to act confident & be of good cheer, because you are preaching to the choir with the Lennox people.
“So instead of merit God bases our relationship with Him on our propensity or ability to believe in the Bible (which, by the way, has no actual evidence for being the literal word of God).” Our relationship with God is a uniquely personal bond, strengthened by the time you spend with your Beloved, God, in prayer. Our relationship with our Father God, and also our relationship with His Son Jesus Christ, who has paid for our sins with His very life, are supported by the Bible. God has many prophecies written in the Old Testament which have already been fulfilled as evidence that His Word is true (Isaiah 55:11-“So shall my Word be, that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”), and the New Testament is a love letter from your Beloved Savior Jesus Christ. Best book ever-Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth-B.I.B.L.E.
Though I am Catholic but I love John Lenex he is strong in his faith and the stone on which our lord has given him the light for being Christian.
Every video I watch from your channel brings me to tears. ❤
Hallelujah!
In my heart, I know this to be true. I’ve learned that over the years. However to have it explain so beautifully and so perfectly is just wonderful.
What a great explanation of the difference. Thank you so much for posting this.
I just finished reading two of Dr. Lenox’s books, Can Science Explain Everything & Have no Fear. He used this analogy in both books. He couldn’t make it any clearer ❤❤
I’m a big fan of his but haven’t read any of his books. Is he a good author?
@@Rubberglass yes. These two books are thin, but are packed with so much content.
Am a Christian and I found a lovely idea in this that in Christianity acceptance comes first unlike other monotheistic religions
What’s important to understand is that Christ gave us a church. This man is awesome to hear and speaks truth BUT there is so much more indeed. Thank you professor! ❤
What gets twisted is that if you love your wife or husband THERE ARE THINGS you must do because you chose them and love them......... faithful, attentive to their needs, knowing what they love and hate and scares them makes them nervous and on and on and on. Not doing things you know are against the other pearson. This is not Merritt but love so if you don't do certain thing for GOD DONT SAY YOU LOVE HIM MUCH LESS KNOW HIM AND HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
Amen 🙏
He displays how Christianity is different than other religions, but doesn’t explain why that makes it true. Every religion has something unique to it, just because an aspect of it is different doesn’t make it true.
What makes it true is evidence for it. The bible is historically verifiable other religions acknowledge Jesus as being a great teacher, a good example etc. There is historical evidence that he did die by crucifixion other religions just dont think he rose from the dead thats what makes Christianity unique because we believe he conquered death and rose if he didnt rise from the dead then all the martyrs died for nothing. Its been thousands of years since he died no one still cant find the body.
@@crazyninja9450 Some parts of the Bible are verifiable but most of it isn’t. There’s stories in the Bible that clearly didn’t happen the way they’re stated, Noah’s flood for example. Just because some events and locations are historically accurate doesn’t mean the Bible in its entirety is true. The fact that we haven’t found Jesus’s body isn’t proof that he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. Using that logic, every person throughout history that we don’t have the body of also ascended into heaven. Even if we did find his body, how would we know that it’s truly Jesus? It’s not like we have his DNA or dental record to compare it to.
We all need to preach this wisdom. When I first experienced God there were moments after which were confusing. I didn’t know why he gave me such a profound experience. I didn’t feel worthy of it, I didn’t know if I had done something to earn it and it was confusing. Later when my father gifted me my first Bible he wrote a quote on the front page:
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.”
- Ephesians 2:8-9
This was my answer and see the wisdom in it. It perfectly resolved a profound experience for me and humbled me. Especially in the beginning, if you seek the lord sincerely don’t be surprised when he makes his unconditional love known to you. Let the grace of this humble you before our Lord and continue forward appropriately once faith has replaced with a knowing of the truth of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Recently I asked my Dad why he included that quote on the front page. It’s an odd one, it’s not a classic or cliche quote. He replied simply “I don’t know why, all I know is I definitely prayed before hand”. God answered my prayer of understanding my experience of Him, years later through my own Father without me ever having told him about any of it. There’s a beauty to that which I don’t think I can put in words but am so grateful for.
Very well stated explanation of how we cannot be saved without Jesus!❤
John 14:6 "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one goes to the Father except through me." Jesus is Lord 🙏 🙌
MY TESTIMONY
Note: My testimony is based on experiences, so I guess it’s not evidential. However, these 2 experiences have been powerful in that they cemented my faith in God.
When I was a toddler, I was outside with my mom as she was pruning plants. She told me that I picked up a live branch and a dead one, and said, "One will be taken and the other left." (Reference to Matthew 24:40)
Later on when I was 4 years old, I was playing in my little swimming pool in our yard when a bird flew to me. In my mind, I thought it would be a good idea to give the bird a bath. I picked up the bird and held him under the water. Of course, the bird died, and I was very upset. My mom took the bird and put it in a shoebox so we could bury it, but I decided to pray. I bowed my head and said, "God, please heal my bird." At that very moment, the bird revived and flew out the window. My mom and my older brother were there to witness it. What's remarkable about this is that my parents were members of a church that didn't ever pray for healings. It had to be God who put the idea to pray in my head.
Because of these early encounters, I have never doubted God's existence or His love for me.
About a month ago a bird crashed into the sidewalk beside me. It did not move so I assumed it was dead A minute later it got up and flew away. This only proves the bird wasn't actually dead.
@@adamgates1142the bird you saw was probably shocked the bird in the persons story probably drowned
@@ezgreviews6775 Yes! God brings back birds from the dead... JFC
you water-boarded a poor bird to unconsciousness and that led you to conclude Christianity is true? FFS...
I watch a lot of your videos and love them but this one REALLY hit home and probably the best one I’ve seen for me and my walk. Thank you!! God bless!!
Love this but I have a question. If his wife never cooks for him, or says she loves him, or shows him signs of love, or does anything to reciprocate love would he feel loved? The missing message of why works matter is because doing nothing for someone you love is not love.
Yeah but if we don’t love God (as you define it), God still loves us! 2 timothy 2:13. Good news
@@ntkmw8058 your correct God still loves us but he will not reward us with heaven if we don’t love him back. This doctrine is dangerous because it teaches people to simple keep doing whatever you want and God will love and forgive you. It’s abusing Gods love for us. It’s an amazing tactic the devil uses to make people feel comfortable with sin. God warns us all throughout the Bible of what awaits us when we live in sin. Don’t be fooled to think God won’t punish even those he loves.
@@ntkmw8058 Hell is mentioned 167 times in the Bible, sometimes called Gehenna, Hades, the pit, the Abyss, or everlasting punishment (Proverbs 7:27; Luke 8:31; 10:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:9). Jesus spoke of heaven and hell as real places (Matthew 13:41-42; 23:33; Mark 9:43-47; Luke 12:5). The story Jesus told about the rich man and Lazarus was an actual event that demonstrated the reality of the two eternal destinations (Luke 16:19-31). Heaven is the dwelling place of God (2 Chronicles 30:27) where Jesus has gone to “prepare a place” for those who love Him (John 14:2). Hell was created for “the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41). But because every human being is a sinner, every person past the age of accountability has already been condemned to hell (Romans 3:10; 5:12; John 3:18). We all deserve hell as the just punishment for our rebellion against God (Romans 6:23).
I think you're reffering pretty heavily to James 2:14-26. I think it sums it up pretty well.
Great presentation and great reflections by you. Very inspiring ... Thanks so much!! :))
More pure gold from Professor Lennox. Thanks for sharing! I love your channel.
Amen2That
"Fool's gold".
• Did you know that the Bible is the only book that commands
• Children killing
• killing women
• kill the elders
• Incision of pregnant women’s abdomens
• Killing donkeys, cows and sheep
Ezekiel 9:6: “The old man, the young man, the virgin, the child, and the women ((slay to perishment)) and do not approach anyone who has piety, and begin from my sanctuary, and begin with the old men who are in front of the house..’
2- Even cows, sheep and donkeys are not safe:
Joshua (6 :21): “And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, man and woman, young and old, even cows, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.”
1 Samuel 15:3: “Now go and strike the Amalekites, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them, but kill man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
@@SamA-xu9gy I have heard it said that Christians “cherry pick” The Bible to suit their views, that Jews “cherry pick” The Torah to suit their views, and that Muslims “cherry pick” The Quran to suit their views. I can certainly see why folks make this claim. Is that your view also?
@@Dreson45 Atheism in relation to "holy texts" is literally all about cherrypicking. They will never study a book they don't believe in, and aren't open minded or intelligent enough to study it for the sake of it. It's painfully obvious most atheists don't exactly boast high intelligence, otherwise they'd be agnostics.
I absolutely love the point you made at ~3.00. I have never heard anyone else ever make that important point!!
Always a pleasure to listen to John...😊👌👍