What Makes Christianity Unique? | John Lennox
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I'm on a John Lennox binge today,....I just discovered him, and thank God for that.
What makes Christianity unique? I just came from watching a video of the bond hearing of Dylann Roof, the Charleston SC shooter who killed nine people who were studying their Bibles, he spent about an hour with them before pulling out his gun and shooting nine of them. He reportedly said to police, I almost didn't do it... they were so nice to me. At his bond hearing the victims loved ones told him they forgave him, that they hoped he would find salvation through Jesus... that they would not allow hate to win. No one, without the grace and mercy of God Almighty within, could do this... as their Savior asked them to do, to love their enemy, and pray for him.
+Debra Carey , I also saw that and it was amazing!!!!!!
@@mkmason2002 You wake up troll.
Debra. I love Jesus. I was told by an apparent Christian that I had "no right to forgive!" and "had no authority to forgive". I quoted this story of extreme forgiveness to this person. I do hope they get the help they require. You and I forgive as we are encouraged to in Gods word, The Bible, but it is the act we forgive, we cannot forgive the 'sin'. That is in Christ. Christ only.
@The Truth Just because stupid men use passages in the Bible to justify their monstrous acts doesn't mean that the Bible actually condones racism.
According to the Bible, YHWH only created two humans that reproduced to populate the earth over time. Those two people had every people group in their genetic makeup.
When people use repulsive phrases like, "keep the race pure", they're beyond ignorant to not even use common sense in understanding YHWH's truth and ways.
@The Truth yeah . . . that all sounds ridiculous. Good thing that's not really the truth.
*Racism*
The Isrealites are the descendants of a singular man. Basically . . he impressed God.
Despite the reality of this man's advanced age and barrenness of his wife, this man rejected the reality of what his eyes saw and what his own human logic told him. He dared to believe, because of the one that told Him the impossible was possible.
He took God at His word. Even as time passed, this man stood expectantly that He who promised was faithful to complete it.
As a result God kept his promise. Even throughout the ages and the stupidity of this man's descendant, God stayed faithful to this man.
This isn't about race. Isreal is a choosen nation, not because of who they are, but because of one man that touched God's heart by believing beyond the condition of his circumstances.
*Worship* is not a demand, it's actually a natural byproduct of literally being in the presence of THE CREATOR. YHWH is, in my experience, an emminating being that sends out particles of TRUTHS that are received like packets of knowings. _Not sure if this makes sense, because I'm trying to express alter dimensional truths in human words._
I knew things immediately in His presence: He had been at my side all my life, He was hurt by my hurt, His love for me was inexpressible, His essence was literally LOVE, TRUTH, JUST, RIGHTEOUS, HOLINESS, He wanted to heal my heart from life's wounds. He literally poured laughter and joy over me as if it was water. To be in His presence is life changing.
Worship before YHWH is the result of LOVE and getting built up again is a really great perk.
Galatians 5:22 - _"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,"_
Nehemiah 8:10 - _" . . . for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”_
*Sexism* isn't true either. Why? There's no male or female in the kingdom of Heaven.
Galatians 3:28 - _"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."_
Homophobic
Again, wrong. Sin is sin in the eyes of YHWH. If one comes into the knowledge that He's right and you're wrong everytime, there's no issue . . . obey that it may be well with you. He'll take care of the rest.
To walk with Him is to be reborn, where the old man is dead and one walks in the newness of abundant life.
*Hell*
Again, wrong. Hell wasn't created for man, it was created for fallen angelic beings. But you have free-will, just as every angelic being does. It's not like you don't know the choice . . . so choose life.
/ / /
I recent heard a testimony of a guy that gave his life to Jesus. *But only for a week.* He told God he didn't believe He was real, but that He would be willing to put his trust in Him for a whole week. If He didn't prove Himself he'd go his way knowing that he had given it a real effort to find out.
He said it worked for him. Just an idea.
A mortal man can't explain that way without the wisdom of God, he's really inspired by God. May you live full of years for people to listen🙏🙏
sure imbecile
What an answer! Wow, what a brilliant man
Yup
It’s amazing I can listen to him for hours 🙏🎩👏
No, he's a superstitious goose.
John Carson Lennox is one of the greatest minds we have ever had. I am so glad that nearly every statement he has/ is making publicly is being documented/ saved for the world to see after he departs us.
Unfortunately he's so smart that he's got you and all like you deluted just like he is.
@@johnkaz1476 Care to elaborate?
@@johnkaz1476 deluded?? And what is the evidence of what you so put your faith in?
@@DaffyDuck007 just another atheist coming in Christian content and making claims they cannot back up
@@johnkaz1476 Still waiting for the evidence that substantiates your assertion...
I just love you John Lennox.Your heart is so warm and kind that God gave you a full understanding of His mysteries.Greetings from Greece
+Yiota Petridou Lennox is a beast. God bless you guys :)
+rationalmind don't get fresh. "beast" is a term used for a skilled or amazing person. please stop trolling. you know perfectly well what I meant.
+rationalmind sorry, i didn't quite realize you were kidding. I'm glad you are a kind atheist. a lot of atheists (but not all) are quite rude. It's refreshing to talk to you. My sense of humor usually exists when I'm around my cousins. I can be very serious at times. Now I just sound bipolar tho... cuz usually I talk to people in person with a sense of haphazard nonsense for the sake of humor. (not regarding noah's flood tho) I usually live for laughs, but your remark just sounded snarky. sorry tho :)
+rationalmind yes, im aware its slang. it was just my opinion that i wanted to share in the comments. it was positive, and i believe in positive statements.
+rationalmind That's good. Sorry for taking it so seriously. since you are critical of ideas, you should find the idea that the universe came into being on its own terms more ridiculous than Noah's ark. Krauss' quantum vacuum theory is just him trying to explain away God. It doesn't hold its weight.
Lennox is the man!
Like a boss!
God’s mercy, love, compassion, turning a blind eye and forgiveness towards others.
Unless you don't believe in him of course.
I love Dr. Lennox's demeanor. I am not ready to call him a saint yet, but he is one fine example of being a Christian.
All God's people are saints
@@pauljohn1979 I was just going to put that! It's throughout biblical scripture.
Kinda the point John Lennox was making. We're righteous at rebirth and have become a temple of the Almighty now.
Not purely saint but close
@@aj_65769 do you understand what "saints" mean in a biblical context?
narrow is the path to THE TRUTH !!!!!
I'm a muslim and i love john lennox alot
+Sasori of the Red Sand
That is impressive
+Sasori of the Red Sand only the worst assholes hate him
You need to come to Jesus. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall never die but have eternal life." Ask God to show you if Jesus is the one true God and that He died to set you free, to give you eternal life. peace. Mary
This is your indoctrination speaking. I am sorry but you are deluded.
People today who follow Christianity are consuming the corrupted European version. The Europeans through the Catholic Church have inserted themselves into History and consequently control the thinking of millions of people. Don't you think it strange that the image of "God" is a European white man............?
K Bora Where in your particular study of the entire Bible do you read God set forth as a European white man?
Know that the Roman Catholic church is not the only expression of that spirituality to which you refer nor is Protestantism. Multiplied millions of Christians are neither.
Appearing luminously clear to me is that you are deluded by the indoctrination you believe is true.
Great reminder to us christians that we’re saved by grace. So also remember to show that same love to those outside of the faith. We’re only good because He is good.
I'd never heard such a better explanation, of the uniqueness of Christianity.
This question hunt for years and now God is telling me why Christianity is true religion through Professor John Lennox😊.Sir May God Bless you 🙏
As I see it, any religion that believes human merit determines whether or not you receive salvation or damnation is just another form of humanism.
makes me feel good too cause I stopped working & now live on welfare ^^
That's mega off the charts love folks. To be loved and perused while a sinner.. Christ stands uniquely unmatched in unconditional love😭
Lennox is amazing!
+sylmarmusic2012 God is amazing and He gave this gift of understanding to brother Lennox.
I'm braziliam. I love John Lennox
The profoundity! Well articulated, Mr. Lennox.
Thank you Jesus for your mercy & grace! There is no GOD like you!!
Of course there's not. Because that's the one you were taught and frightened to believe in. 😁
what about Romans ch 8 vs 22 god curst all of creation! and secondly, who would
want a relationship with the god of the bible after it drowned billions of innocent animals in the days of Noah's flood? clearly a psychopath.
@@ThePlim62 tell me, do you believe in evolution?
where was jesus when the white europeans were SLAUGHTERING your ancestors, brainwashed IMBECILE.
@@rchachouu #1. God doesn't settle His accounts on our timeline. #2. The sinful acts of sinful men are storing up for themselves the wrath and anger of God. #3. There's none that is righteous, no not one, we are all worthy of death including my "ancestors". The day of judgment is coming and God's wrath is presently being continually revealed and His truth suppressed by evil wicked men. I only pray you accept God's only solution to mankind's problem, the work of Jesus Christ - says the imbecile.
What a blessing. Thank you Dr. Lennox.
Well said John !!! And so true:-)
A very inspiring and satisfying explanation by the Man of God- John Lennox🙏
The profound revelation in that. We are his bride
I hear the love of God in this man voice and words
What a beautiful and simplified way of explaining the truth about the only True God..In Jesus
John Lennox is a true giant of the faith.
Incredible! Amen
A million likes for this video!
This is what the Holy Spirit feels like to experience in your life:
Imagine an all encompassing sense of gracious absoluteness breathing out of your whole body, charactized with a gentle soft sensation of calmness that extends to the point where language completely breaks down and becomes futile to give further explanation to the completeness that it brings to you. It is not an indoctrination, I'm not a fan of that word, it sounds very "institutional" I don't believe it is accurate what so ever. It's an experience and it's very real, it ultimately defies words, which leads me to accept, that Jesus Christ is more glorious than his word.
bless this man
Just discovered M.Lennox....amazing man
I love John Lennox. He can speak to Princes and Paupers in a language that everyone can understand.
I second that...Great!!!
As a muslim, l think we all believe in same. we have differences but we all believe in one God and try to be good on behalf of God. That is fair enough.
Fırstly I adore Mr. Lennox.
But I cant stop thinking like that as well.
Consdiering his example, how did he decide to marry her? He became friend with her they been through hard times together and once they became sure enough, they got married.
They met, they spent time, they know each other, they been through hard times together(part between first gate and the last one) and only then they marrie (part after the last gate).
I admire the forgiveness in Christianity as Muslim for sure but being nice and kind to all kinds of people?
Forgiving people who done bad things to lets say innocent people? Is this really how God's justice works without justice?
Can we make a justice without punishing the bad?
What about people who been good all the time? Didnt they have a right to live a life?
I am sorry but being justice is not same as forgiving everything.
As much as equality doesnt mean justice, it is same for the fact that absoulete forgiveness doesnt mean justice and fairness.
A truly brilliant and humble man of God
Incredible man.
You are so right John - merit is not what maketh a Christian… However, while many understand (well, kinda) the doctrine of grace and (probably not at all), the doctrine of the sovereignty of God, they still insist that it requires some kind of volitional belief commitment from the person… but that then puts one right back into the ‘merit trap’ - “I am a Christian because I chose to believe” (for whatever reason)!
In other words… I am a Christian, not because I believe, but because I am a Christian, I believe - biiiiiig difference! ‘Faith’ in the Heb 11 sense, leads one to the inevitable conclusion: faith = imputed belief! Nothing less…
😊 this guy is a True Christian we are lucky 🍀 to have him 😊
wow this was such a profound explanation
Bravo and bravo mister Lennox 👏👏👏🤗
I have my questions, but, I really do believe in the power of prayer. At the very least, I believe that Jesus is a way to God, despite all of the historical questions I do have. However, I think that spiritual development is important along the way, and I think here there is much to be gained from Yoga and Buddhist teachings. I also think ethics have to be constantly approached from many angles as new information is always developing so quickly. All in all, I really think it's good to see someone speak so sincerely though about the need for resolution of sin and uniting w God for it's own intrinsic purpose and not for any gain otherwise. I relate to this in my own faith in God, however many questions I still have unresolved.
This is labour day in many countries , I glad I am that I Don't have to work my way into relationship with God , they labour in vain those who think their work will do the job
Dear Professor Lennox,
I'm confident you have read the Bible, but you might have missed this;
Deuteronomy 6:4 Isaiah 43:10-11, 45:5-6-7, 45:22, 48:11-12 Hosea 13:4
May the Eternal bless you and keep you always.
Fine idea about the cookbook.
It's very tough to be a strong Christian.
@OnlyJesusSaves.org being a Christian in the current world full of unholy filthy temptations.. it is very hard to live upto the 10 commandments , fullfill the way of life that 🔥Christ Jesus🔥desired all men and women to follow ....to become one with Almighty GOD...
@OnlyJesusSaves.org well not just that being but the societal expectations of Christians as well it's either your the super judgemental "god hates etc" Christians or the ones that are too passive and would throw away the faith on a dime
Amen!!!!
Wow! makes so much sense !
Beautiful
So wise
this is not a major repellent for most folks actually, but something appealing.
Absolutely incredible! Praise God！
The Wonderful Person and work of our Lord and Saviour - Jesus Christ !!!
Brilliant 👏 👏 👏
I'm an Arabic Muslim and I love this man who respects humanity a lot ...may Allah bless him.
much love. (:
Hats off toyou Mr. Lennox
AMEN, GLORY TO GOD !! That is THE TRUTH, THE GOSPEL = THE GOOD NEWS 🩸🙏🏻🩸🩸🙏🏻❤️
i dont undrestand every body ses mine is best one !!
Journal entry 1/27/2016
Just as perplexing as the notion of something out of nothing is the idea that an all-perfect God could have any unfulfilled desires. This concept of desire in an all-perfect, self-contained godhead has always puzzled me. On the one hand, you have God enjoying his blissful perfection, in need of nothing and, on the other hand, that same blissfully perfect God suddenly gets a creative urge, knowing that if he acts on that urge he will be opening Pandora's Box, a box filled with so much horror and suffering any sane entity would recoil at the thought. And yet, we are asked to believe this omniscient, all-loving godhead opens Pandora's Box anyway when nothing is compelling him to do so. When absolutely nothing is forcing him to abandon his state of bliss, in which there is no evil, no suffering, and no eternal torment, nothing compelling him to end that blissful state to create a nightmare. Is it possible for a godhead to become bored with his perfection? That is a question easily overlooked in the stampede of drama that pours out of the bible from the very first chapter. Again, I ask, what could compel a blissfully perfect, loving god to disturb his eternal bliss to create a place of eternal torment for creatures who never needed to exist? This idea is a hole in the creation story big enough to drive a Mack truck through, and yet Christian drama addicts pretend they don't see it. Would Mr. Lennox or any of his followers care to respond?
I’d recommend you asked this to a Catholic theologian( which is the church with the most philosophical and theological works), but my understanding is that God created us not out of necessity, but rather out of love, so we could be able to enjoy his love and adore him, now, love isn’t really love if it is forced, that’s why the option of evil is present, and in the beginning, humanity did that choice(represented in Adam and Eve) and rejected God, and endured the consequences(pain,suffering,death) that entails separating yourself from God and rejecting Him.Now God, through Jesus, reconnects the broken relationship between man and God, elevating us to the quality of sons and daughters of God. Hope this helps and God bless.
Amen.
So good!
I was offered a full scholarship to Harvard based on my grades and SAT scores.
Interesting
All true religions have the same underlying unity!
Christianity is not a religion at ALL, it is the revealed path for humanity to the real existence. The Kingdom of Heaven.
Amen🙏
Isn't it amazing how a penniless preacher who's career lasted a grand total of 3 years is still intimidating people. That even by non believers he is considered the most dominant figure in recorded history. That doesn't tell you anything? I believe Jesus is God, and also my friend, stop being so arrogant as to think your smarter than us. Are you truly so arrogant to think that we don't understand the arguments you have and yet still have good reason to believe? It just blows me away how someone can call someone so blind while they themselves don't even believe in truth. Everything to an atheist is subjective, yet you think our way is wrong? The moment you make a truth claim, you abandon determinism.
Use the last bits of code "v=___________" to figure it out. Or is this too complicated for you?
Absolutely 💯
Wise man
The Truth why the fuck would he bother to do that
Can someone help me to understand what he says around 5:48? “But you see, that would be ______”? __5:55__ “the secret of ___ marriage” and also in 6:15 “that sets her free to learn to ____”? Thanks! English isn’t my first language.
That would be to insult her.
The secret of MY marriage
What makes the Word of Yahweh unique is the question People need to stop dividing up the Word by the Sects they have created.
He avoids the option that the commonality of "the golden rule" has nothing to do with religious belief. As an atheist I would understand it as an aspect of the socialisation of the human animal (and going back down the evolutionary chain too of course) .
You are misinformed about the so-called "golden rule" : it is an unmistakeable Jewish and Christian command, therefore strongly "religious". Some claim it might be traced back to writings of Confucius (I have not checked), but if it is it would just be a philosophy principle, in the midst of tens of others wise thoughts.
The point with Christianity and probably with Jewish faith is that God gives us the will and the strength to put such unnatural behaviour into practice...
"Loving your neighbour as yourself", or lesser "do to others what you would them do to you", is completely opposed to natural selection. I wonder how could find a place for it?
@@ThefrenchFranz Funny that we see the same principle in operation throughout the social animal world though is it not? Its not an unnatural behaviour. Its a survival trait and its certainly not one that any religion is required for to generate.
@@paulfrisby4082 Wow, the "golden rule" at work in the animal realm? that would be a Nobel prize ticket! where did you get that from?
@@ThefrenchFranz Its what makes social organisations work. If you are only self interested then obviously you risk everyone else treating you in a similar fashion - when you are threatened by a predator you cant fight off alone, hungry, sick or injured. Your genes dont prosper and neither do those of the rest of your mean, self-interested species.
@@paulfrisby4082 This is your belief, but it is not backed by science, which claim that in such a situation, the weakest of the clan would be left behind for the hunters to give up following the whole group, and therefore lift up the menace.
Giving one's life for the benefit of others is completely contrary to modern evolutionary theory.
All religions are equally unique. There is no one absolutely unique religion.
I am FULLY prepared to rip apart each and every point you've made in this conversation, but I am waiting patiently for your my turn to answer a question. However, it is still your turn to answer my original question. Feel free to check out the videos I've linked that you're too dishonest to say that you've already watched as a cop-out to addressing the content therein, though.
What make God unique we live in God act 17:28
So either you're lying about the links or you're too inept to copy/paste them into a new browser window? Cool, which one would you like to be? I'm not sure which is more fail, but I'll let you choose.
Religions simply come down to this: TRY to earn salvation or accept Christ’s gift of salvation.
What about the people who think he never existed apart from in the imagination of Paul
The grace of God all man religion depend upon works.
God's Name be glorified.
God's Name be magnified.
God's be justified in everything thing that He does ❤
JESUS HAS ALL POWER AND ALL AUTHORITY
Words of a saved person...
Are you God?
All the people who are already christians just love this man telling them its great to be a Christian
Died....for 3 days. And only in his human form. wow. What a sacrifice...
I would not agree that all the religions share the common thread of "Do unto others as you
would be done by"
The latter is not central to the Hiindu religion with its caste
True some proffessing Christians make an appalling job of demonstrating their professed faith by their character and behaviour but nonetheless at the core of their "professed" faith is the tenet of their faith is
"Do unto others as you would be done by"
What I think Lennox means is that no society or civilization has ever thrived by everyone stealing from each other lying, and killing each other. It's like doing all those things is the exact opposite of having a society, you would never get anywhere as a nation.
Who was speaking? John Lennox? I thought Paul the apostle!😅
Even though Jesus said "Judge not by appearance but judge by righteous judgment." Most Christians still believe that God created this world that you cannot trust what you perceive here to be truth. "You are on the earth but not of the earth." Jesus agreed with Buddhists that this world is maya.
"They cannot all be true." What's more likely? That he died is what's more likely.
I'll have to ask him, what if that woman only marries you for your money, for what you can do for her, and then leaves you?
Or she abandons you and leaves you for another?
Yeah, she treated you with respect while in your relationship, cooked your meals, showed you affections, etc, but to do this forever, she didn't want any of that?
Do not see in the Bible that God created the universe with age? Base on the truth reveled that Adam was a full adult.
19 God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?
Numbers 23:19
I have relationships with the people around me but not with my fiction of God.
Ironic that they are arguing the merits of Christianity at the "Veritas" forum. For those of you who don't know, Veritas was the Roman goddess of truth.
+David Scholfield
What is ironic is your failure of understanding pagan Roman practice of deification of abstract ideas. The reason the Roman goddes of truth is named Veritas is not because that was literally her name (like you are named David, for example. If that is your real name, of course). The concept of truth (veritas in latin) has been deified into such an extent that it became personified and become a divine figure. This can happen to humans as well, and to other gods from a different belief system as they see fit to be incorporated into their pantheon of gods and goddesses.
In Christianity, God Himself, whose one of divine character is truth, has entered into His own realm and declared, "I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). The Romans' quest for the truth has been fulfilled; not in the personification of the abstract idea itself but in the Creator, who came into this earth to reveal Himself.
Paul acknowledged this as well in the Greeks' pursuit of the divine truth, when he encountered the altar to the "Unknown God" ((Νὴ τὸν Ἄγνωστον/Ne ton Agnoston) in Athens, as recorded in Acts 17:22-31, who then declared: "People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship-and this is what I am going to proclaim to you." (Acts 17:22-23)
I see you whipped out your strong's concordance for just such opportunity to exercise your chops in scriptural exegesis. Bet you been waiting ages for such an opportunity to arrive.. ey? Am i right? Haha.. I wasn't saying it was wrong, iwas just making an observation. I understand Veritas is synonymous with truth
+David Scholfield Is that your standard reply when your "mere observation" turned out to be ill-informed? :P
It's all my own thought. I got confirmation of the Roman practice from Wiki. The verses are God's. No concordance involved. Isn't that the cruise ship that sank? *badum tsss
By the way, your reply is a textbook example of argumentum ad hominem. You can't refute my logic just by saying slanders about my motivation to give my "scriptural exegesis" to you.
Now take your two lessons of Roman religious tradition and logical fallacy home, my young padawan, you have much to learn. Seriously though, I'm just joking. Don't be so negative. :).
I come across this quite often, a person thinks all you have to do is put faith in the sacrifice Jesus made and yes that's definitely part of it but we have to exercise that faith John 3:16
We do have to live in a way that is acceptable to God.
Jesus death and resurrection only provides the road to salvation, but we have to walk it.
We know that there are disqualifiers.
1 corinthians 6:9-10
Galatians 5:19-21
Colossians 3:5-6
All things in life are unique in one way or another.
cut to the chase...there are two religions....one of works, and one of faith...
But faith without works is dead ?
The mad professor
wow he calls these blasphemers as “friends” wow
Prove all things, holdfast that which is good 🙏
The Bible is a book on how to conduct science as much as it is on morality and spirituality 🙈🙉🙊
Christianity and our relationship with God has always been by faith. Abraham believed God by faith some 400 years before the law. The just shall live by faith
So...the same as other religions.