Points of Origin - Professor John Lennox

[@susandejohn4614]

The love of God in Professor John pours from his lectures. So grateful that I have just discovered him at this time in my life😊

[@Redheadedlady55]

~Thank you sooooo-much Dr. John Lennox for the words you give to us. Love to you & your family❤

[@kieran0000]

This man has brought me back to Jesus Christ. Bless you John. 🙏

[@marculatour6229]

The best thing about being smarter than your audience is, that you can fool them very easily. Exactly for this reason Voltaire wrote: "La religion a commencé le jour où le premier fripon a rencontré le premier imbécile." However, if you believe what you say, you are even stupider than your audience.

[@kieran0000]

I think more stupid would have worked better, don't you think? You shouldn't really suffix a two syllable word. God Bless you.

[@canadianeh7574]

I am curious why you listened to this presentation? What is your defense of not being ‘fooled’ by John Lennox? Perhaps look at the time in history in which Voltaire lived for him to have written a cynical assertion based on what philosophical merit?

[@reubenfrancis19]

Professor John Lennox is such an exceptional man. Glory to Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour for giving us such a wonderful and amazing person in Christ. God bless you keep up the good work in Christ🙏

[@HarryNicNicholas]

why? in what way is lennox anywhere near great, his science is terrible for a start. there's no god either.

[@rolfme5499]

@Reuben Francis Lennox is exceptional stupid! .

[@michaelbrickley2443]

@@HarryNicNicholas you’ll have to wait until death to learn the TRUTH. Shalom

[@vasetitoleafoa5583]

​@@HarryNicNicholaswhere is the base evidence of your dillusion and when was the last time you have a good look at your face in the mirror? Do you remember?

[@michellehill5285]

I love this man. He’s a perfect combination of super intelligence and humility.

[@rolfme5499]

He is the perfect combination of lies stupidity. .

[@Stupidityindex]

Prophecy is a fantasyland term. We don't have prophets listed in The Yellowpages. We don't have prophet trade-schools.

[@dorrenes.missdthetruthtell5342]

Absolutely!

[@Redheadedlady55]

~Cannot get enough of Dr. John Lennox....simply admire him.

[@synesthete23]

What a lovely talk. Thank you Professor Lenox for pointing to Christ. He is indeed the Beginning and the End. 🙂

[@HarryNicNicholas]

odd that everyone thinks he's a great old geezer, he's a crap scientist and talks nonsense about religion.

[@wllingtonsingh5080]

May the Lord keep you safe and healthy and strong for his Glory so the teaching can continue to change the lives of people who do not believe in Jesus Christ 🙏👍

[@sierragrey7910]

My favorite public Christian and my favorite apologist. He never fails to provoke thought. He never fails to present the gospel. I loo, forward to meeting him in the new creation.

[@marculatour6229]

I think that eventually you will find yourself in the same condition as every other being on this earth. You'll be totally dead. Otherwise a life before death would be totally senseless. The best thing about being smarter than your audience is, that you can fool them very easily. Exactly for this reason Voltaire wrote: "La religion a commencé le jour où le premier fripon a rencontré le premier imbécile." However, if you believe what you say, you are even stupider than your audience.

[@honawikeepa5813]

Brilliant even in 2021

[@AnnaSzabo]

Brilliant in 2022!!!

[@curiousgeorge555]

@@AnnaSzabo Brillian 5 months later in 2022!!

[@matthewstokes1608]

Yes - and it’s the 2022 “AD” bit which really matters! Christianity is Eternal - for obvious reasons! God Bless Dr Lennox

[@sierragrey7910]

Brilliant in 2023!

[@lopinitupou4626]

Praise you God almighty. Thank you Dr. John C. Lennox for the intellectual lecture. Truly enjoyed this! My faith grows more and more as I watch your lectures and discussions on the truth of our God.

[@vll9915]

It's always a privilege for me to listen to the teachings of Professor John Lennox. He is one of the best sources of biblical teachings.

[@ElizabethMayo-sf4wg]

I will ALWAYS want to listen to this man!!!! I also tell everyone I talk to about John as well!!!!!!

[@markfanjoy4276]

Wow, I think I have to watch this a couple more times.

[@michaelbrickley2443]

Mark Fanjoy, There are no new truths, only old truths that need to be discovered. The Bible os deeper than the ocean and while John Lennox is a great teacher, it takes multiple listens for the truth to sink in.

[@martarico186]

Yes!!!@

[@christopherstead4466]

Just Brilliant!

[@jimroca1983]

Great man of God.. Wise and intelligent...

[@williamchur1378]

Hi Eti

[@charleslightbourne7603]

Awesome truths - more of our World need to be exposed to these truths. Thank you for what you do

[@penglim224]

Believers of Jesus must never forget that GOD is real and this demands we build a relationship with GOD. Knowing GOD is real does us no good if we do not have that relationship with HIM. Believers of Jesus must never forget that GOD is good and this demands we trust GOD totally. Knowing GOD is good does us no benefit if we do not have that child-like trust in HIM. We know GOD is real and GOD is good; we, as HIS children, praise and worship HIM.

[@rolfme5499]

@penglim224 So far no one succeeded in providing evidence for the existence of any god! Jesus never existed! The fictional god of the bible is pure evil! Obviously you never read the bible! .

[@marculatour6229]

As real a the Flying Spagetti Monster. The best thing about being smarter than your audience is, that you can fool them very easily. Exactly for this reason Voltaire wrote: "La religion a commencé le jour où le premier fripon a rencontré le premier imbécile." However, if you believe what you say, you are even stupider than your audience.

[@Notevenone]

@@marculatour6229perhaps, when you are ready, you too may come to know Christ. Then again you may not. But to insult people because of their belief is very unkind. Perhaps think on this. Also, what makes you believe that he is speaking to a dumb audience? An assumption?

[@marial4420]

Oh wow, such a beautiful lecture!!! Oh wow

[@HarryNicNicholas]

what did he say, i bet you've forgotten it already.

[@rep10101]

Excellent stuff, well worth listening to

[@zoltanszallos-farkas5352]

Professor Lennox is himself the most powerful argument for the compatibility of biblical religion and science, him being a profoundly committed Christian and, at the same time, a very able scientist.

[@derhafi]

As “ a very able scientist“ you should know that there is no solid reason to believe in anything Supernatural, including all Gods mankind ever invented. Faith is …”fine”. It does not qualify as a good reason to take something for real. Would you agree?

[@michaelbrickley2443]

Rob Davis, haha....keep on keeping on. The miracle of resurrection proved the God of the Bible....

[@derhafi]

@@michaelbrickley2443So, you use one unproven, multiple times plagiarized myth, in the form of the “resurrection” as an “argument” for an even bigger unproven myth, God. Your reasoning is sound and strong, hallelujah!

[@michaelbrickley2443]

Rob Davis, all you’re doing is make yourself look foolish but then, atheists are famous for thinking they have some special knowledge and superiority in the intellect department.

[@derhafi]

@@michaelbrickley2443It is the religious, of various and contradictive faith based belief systems, who claim to know for a fact that there are things like: divine beings, a soul, hell…. and so on, they further claim that they know how the universe came to be and what happens after death, despite having no way to know such things. Contrary to what faith based cult subscribers do on a daily basis, distributing ones convictions on empirical evidence is not a plead for “special knowledge. Given how low you set the bar for intellectuality, is almost impossible for me not to come across as superior to you.

[@pnp6408]

"God is not a theory he's a person" Love the ending " you'll never know until you go and look" 🚗💒

[@derhafi]

Go and look up what scientific theory means. Please.

[@delmarstilwell7262]

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[@curiousgeorge555]

@@derhafi What does scientific theory have to do with her statement? Nothing.

[@ob2249]

@@curiousgeorge555 and what d0es her statement have t0 d0 with truth 0r reaIity ? if he`s a pers0n g0 and get him whenever y0ur ready ge0rgie

[@TheGospelAssociates]

I love you sir

[@rosalind1750]

Dr Lennox is amazing.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

amazing people swallow this crap.

[@rolfme5499]

@rosalind1750 Lennox is amazingly stupid! .

[@SY-jq4yw]

John is the best apologetic scientist in the world today.

[@schmetterling4477]

He is not a scientist but a mathematician... and not even a good one. That leaves you with a mediocre apologetic.

[@curiousgeorge555]

@@schmetterling4477 Anyone can make an ignorant comment.

[@schmetterling4477]

@@curiousgeorge555 So why did you? ;-)

[@curiousgeorge555]

​@@schmetterling4477

[@schmetterling4477]

@@curiousgeorge555 George?

[@leemarquette]

Thank you. God bless you.

[@marculatour6229]

The best thing about being smarter than your audience is, that you can fool them very easily. Exactly for this reason Voltaire wrote: "La religion a commencé le jour où le premier fripon a rencontré le premier imbécile." However, if you believe what you say, you are even stupider than your audience.

[@GoCanucks2011]

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

[@marculatour6229]

The best thing about being smarter than your audience is, that you can fool them very easily. Exactly for this reason Voltaire wrote: "La religion a commencé le jour où le premier fripon a rencontré le premier imbécile." However, if you believe what you say, you are even stupider than your audience. ​

[@therealtech833]

Truth Bomb💣💥 Brilliant🎯

[@deniseedmondson6236]

Why isn't this man preaching at the White House and other places where the masses of everyone will hear him... I'm afraid I know the answer! Praying for our country and our world! I won't be here much longer but people I love will be and people you love also

[@jamesjaudon8247]

This is going on ten years old now. I hope Mr Lennox is still doing well . He makes brain thing itchy.

[@robertmccully2792]

He is on top of his talks in this one.

[@christiand7437]

The Spirit of God hovered over the face of the deep...Sounds just like the same Spirit in Jesus walking on water....

[@ob2249]

christiandy what d0es that even mean ?

[@Erik_Danley]

20:57 well, there is the OT book Numbers. Ha. God bless Dr Lennox, what an absolute treasure

[@johnnyglenn7752]

Powerful indeed! 🎉🎉

[@petersiska7510]

God brings more questions

[@williamgideme2689]

As man is God was once as man , and as God is man will become, prof. Your erring there.

[@TheTonggingfai]

Sorry you are wrong. Read 1 John 3 vs 1-2

[@phearlesspharaoh3697]

Powerful! 😎✝️✡️

[@conniewahl4743]

The Bible is the policies and procedures for Life.

[@mikestegeman5916]

1:22:00 when he speaks about jesus it is censored?

[@johncollins7062]

Actually, it is more of what God can’t allow himself to do and it is also the answer for the question of why does God let bad things happen. Many would readily and vehemently disagree, but God does not have an actual plan for the world. What he does have is hope for the world through his endowment of free will. God does not know the future, but he does know the infinite number of possibilities required for his gamble on ‘free will’ to succeed. Interfering with that would alter the delicate balance of the human condition equivalent of the ‘Goldilocks Effect’.

[@ahler3973]

Gbu Dr

[@johnmartin7346]

Suppose the creation of the Universe is due to a fundamental singularity (t1) that occurs in the future (t0). These two singularities will then be one and the same thing. That is why the Universe, since that moment (t1) tends towards the singularity (t0), inexorably.

[@schmetterling4477]

That's the problem with presuppositions: they are always wrong.

[@colinm610]

Mint ! :)

[@garylaxson]

As a math professor, if God is Love would it be correct to say Love is God? I like to feel that I feel God's presence when I feel Love and when I share Love I share God. Is that okay?

[@tommarshall7247]

Gary, the letters of John near the end of the Bible speak about this. This is where you find that "God is love" statement. I would read them in full. He writes about whoever loves having known God and those not doing so not knowing Him. You could conclude that whenever you act in love, you are working with God, and sharing something of Him. However, the word is used very loosely today, and it's easy to kid ourselves that we are doing something in love, when it might be something else- ego, or whatever, so good to make sure God remains in the centre. Mathematically, I would want to explore what it is saying, and not try to make language work as if it is maths. After all, 16 is a square number, but a square number is not necessarily 16. Can we switch the God is love statement around like that? I'm not sure it works like that. The Bible makes clear that God is a person, not a principle or a force, so my guess would be that love is his overriding characteristic, that he is its source, and that he is the perfect example of it. I hope that helps 🙂

[@therealtech833]

The word that describes the love of God used most often in scripture is agape. Agape is a type of sacrificial love, or in other words action. This type of love can be given to even people you do not like, it is a choice.

[@BoomdesLevens653]

@@therealtech833 God is not just love, he hates too. And the agape thing is a joke, search the scriptures and you'll find out that agape is used in many instances where is clearly does not mean what you are saying it means.

[@babinmartin3913]

@1:20:40 nailed it ❤

[@marculatour6229]

The best thing about being smarter than your audience is, that you can fool them very easily. Exactly for this reason Voltaire wrote: "La religion a commencé le jour où le premier fripon a rencontré le premier imbécile." However, if you believe what you say, you are even stupider than your audience. ​

[@dereksamueldani4762]

He is the C S Lewis of our time.

[@BoomdesLevens653]

Pretty big mistake John made there around minute 38 with claiming the bible doesn't say anything about the age of the earth, and that there might be billions of years between genesis 1:1 and the rest of the creation. Exodus 20:11 clearly states that the 6 days of creation included the creation of heavens and the earth, end of story, the eath is youngh, anyone teaching otherwise is ignorant of the scriptures.

[@marculatour6229]

The Brothers Grimm also wrote a great book about fairy tales. The best thing about being smarter than your audience is, that you can fool them very easily. Exactly for this reason Voltaire wrote: "La religion a commencé le jour où le premier fripon a rencontré le premier imbécile." However, if you believe what you say, you are even stupider than your audience.

[@rebanelson607]

Copy and paste.@@marculatour6229

[@ttiroam7743]

KJV EXO 20:11 clearly does not say in 6 days the Lord CREATED heaven and earth....but it does say, For in Six days the Lord MADE heaven and Earth... Hes drawing attention to what is Created in Gen 1:1 and clearly says that earth is without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. As John 1:1 KJV clearly states ( which J.C.L uses as explanation) is the pre existence of God before the given 6 day genesis account which begins at the command of his word And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.And God saw the light that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness. Confirmation in John 1:1 onward ie In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.The same was at the beginning with God.All things were MADE by him and without him was not anything made that was made. and EXO 20:11. For in six days God made heaven and earth.. Just taken in logical sequence John would be ignorant if he was saying heaven and earth were made in the beginning and then God said let there be light, divides light from darkness, calls light day and darkness night, evening, morning first day, and then proceed again to create heaven second day and earth the third day. all over again. His distinction was in the significance of God having created that which was not yet seen. And God said, Let there be light..and there was light.....and God saw the light.That it was good. The same was with God in the beginning.All things were made by him and without him was not made that which was made. The subtle but distinct assertion of GODS sovereign authority as our Creator.

[@ttiroam7743]

My comment is in defence of what God clearly does say. Earths age is as of much significance to me as it is to God, and he says only that it is older than man.And that's only the BEGINNING of the story, not the end.

[@tommorgan6530]

Sir, what is your view concerning Calvinism?

[@wiekhiongwong548]

As a Calvinist myself, I'm not sure by your question. Let me suggest that it's intramural, and it's got nothing to do with the lecture.

[@martarico186]

What do you mean by intramural?

[@rolfme5499]

@tommorgan6530 All religions are based on lies! .

[@babinmartin3913]

@1:12:47 ❤

[@williamgideme2689]

Remember When created man he took the earth material to form a man. So creation is organising chaotic materials. 2 ,we the humans are spirit and earthly materials But The spirit is a literal son and daughter of God. There is nothing like nothing, all things are materials seen and not things. Prof. There your erring at that point.

[@williamgideme2689]

As i feel God did not created every from nothing except from the chaotic existence of materials,

[@dsbiddle]

In the Q&A section, Lennox puts significant blame on the lukewarm individual Christianity that scoffers use to represent the Body. I disagree with Lennox. I think that this is the EXCUSE, and an almost IMPENETRABLE EXCUSE, almost impossible to expose, that scoffers use to justify their unbelief and put their consciences to rest and harden themselves in unbelief. It is impenetrable because it is a true accusation but it is false because yhat is not the reason they do not believe. The nation prides itself on skepticism, individualism, and free choice. The soffers and skeptics question everything - everything they disagree with and too little of what conveniently fits in their pocket. If the Bible did not undeniably teach the eternal consequence of immorality and rebellion against God, there would hardly be a person who didn't laud it. Jesus exposes the world as sinful. Rebels against God use false science and hypocritical moral judgment to hide their unbelief behind. But by the Bible, they are exposed.

[@dsbiddle]

BanD1TPlays When did I argue that a few rotten apples justify throwing out the whole barrel?

[@patrickhannon4188]

Believers who know the word of God aught to know " we wrestle not against flesh and blood" Ephesians 6. And that is for John as well. We as believers are to preach the gospel to the lost, not with intellectual display of our flesh. Fine sounding speeches saves no one. Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again. 1 Corinthians 15:3,4. I have not yet heard John Lennox preach this gospel Christ gave to Paul.

[@rstevewarmorycom]

Belief in the unevidenced is garbage thinking. Your jesus was a myth written anonymously by liars.

[@dsbiddle]

rstevewarmorycom - show me the evidence of what you say

[@rstevewarmorycom]

@@dsbiddle Your "god' has NO evidence of existence. The jesus story is ONLY a story, there is NO contemporary evidence from his supposed time that he ever existed. The "gospel" writers were anonymous. Why? They set the story 45 years previous to their time. Why? Because they neither wanted to be questioned or investigated, and they didn't want people from jesus' supposed time to contradict them as to what they said happened. They figured in 45 years all witnesses would be dead. Lifespan back then averaged 48 years. ALL the 30+ Greek and Roman scholars studying hebrew cults in Jerusalem around 25-35 CE NEVER even mentioned jesus' name! Josephus jesus passage was forged two centuries later. All others who mentioned jesus were recording hearsay after 100 CE from chrstians. The entire bible has been totally debunked.

[@babinmartin3913]

@1:21:30 Why it's the God of the Bible: Let's take the three monotheist religion - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

[@muhammadalkhawarizmi3630]

22:22 From nothing (physical).

[@jakeclarke4418]

Nothing does as nothing is... NOTHING!

[@MrJohnshopkins53]

Just think of all the Atheist Dr. Lennox debated and the many that came before him that have already died and gone out into Eternity, only now they realize what a fool they've been. there are no Atheist in Hell, because now that they are there, they are now believers, but it's now everlastingly too late. but it's not too late for you my dear friend, open your heart to Christ today, don't be fool and in Hell to stay. His love is calling you now. John 3:16-17

[@christiand7437]

The Bible says...God separated the waters from the water....did he take the Hydrogen and create the Sun. And the remaining Oxygen and createvthe atmospher

[@NephilimFree]

Unfortunately, as right as he is about there being a God, Lennox denies the very Book of Genesis which he cites as foundational to our understanding of the origin of the world. He denies that the world was, according to scripture, created only thousands of years ago, and all of the amazing discoveries in science which supports that fact in astronomy, cosmogony, genetics, human population increases over time, recorded human history, and biology. It saddens me to see such intellectuals acknowledge the world was created by God but then turns around and denies Special Creation and accepts uniformitarianism. Dr. Lennox believes God used evolution to bring us into being and that the universe and the earth are billions of years old. I pray that his eyes become opened. How many days did Joshua march around the city of Jericho? How do we know how long a day was then? Isn't it because of context? The context in the Genesis creation narrative likewise tells us the days of creation were 24 hour days. The word yom is used 410 times in relation to a number. Every time it means an ordinary day. "evening and morning" are used 38 times in the Old Testament and each time it means an ordinary day. "evening and morning" are used 23 times without the word yom and each time it means an ordinary day. "night" is used 52 times without yom and each time it means an ordinary day. Because of the context of the creation days, "evening and morning", if these days represented vast periods of time, the either God is a untrustworthy idiot because he has conveyed something untrue, or he is a liar because he has conveyed that the length of the days is equal to the coming and going of the sun, while they were in fact vast periods of time. If the days of creation in Genesis 1 represent thousands to millions of years,and Adam and Ever were created during day 6, then one would have to believe they were thousands to millions of years old by day 7 unless youbelieve God created them at the last moment before sunrise on day 6. Moreover, since the passages describe the coming and going of the sun, one would have to believe the earth orbited the sun at a rate exponentially slower during the days of creation than immediately after. If you don't hold to that idea, then you have to explain why the days of creation represent vast ages of time and an exponentially slower moving earth than for day 7 and all days afterward. In the context, the word day in Genesis 1 refers to six 24-hour days. Every time it appears with “evening and morning” or with a number like “sixth day,” which is over 200 times, it refers to a 24-hour day. If the days represent cast periods of time, then God would have had to supernaturally placed all plants into a frozen state of stasis to wait for the sun to arrive the next "day" so that they would have sunlight. Plants can survive a couple of literal days without sunlight, but they cannot survive hundreds, thousands, or millions of days without light. If the days represent vast periods of time, the sun would have charred the earth into a dessert on each day that the earth rotated. Otherwise, one would have to believe each day represents millions of actual days, but this contradicts the statements of "and the evening and the morning were the X day". Because of the statements regarding the workweek and sabbath in Exodus, the creation days cannot be longer than 24 hour. Since death entered the world because of sin (Romans 5:12), all of the animals God created would have had to live for vast ages of time until Adam sinned. This forces Day-Age theorists to arbitrarily decide how long the creation days must be to fit their concept. Furthermore, Jesus and the New Testament apostles read Genesis 1-11 as straightforward historical narrative. What is the genre of Genesis 1? Is it poetic or prophetic? Poetry is easy to recognize in Hebrew because unlike English poetry which often relies upon rhyme and meter, Hebrew poetry is characterized by parallelism: either synonymous or antithetical parallelism. Synonymous parallelism occurs when an idea is repeated using different words, often synonyms of the original. Consider Psalm 19:1, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” The ‘heavens’ and ‘sky’ basically mean the same thing, just as ‘declare’ and ‘proclaim’ basically mean the same thing. Both the first and second phrase have basically the same meaning: that the universe tells us something about God’s creative glory. Since this passage is poetic, the author did not intend to convey the idea that the sky literally talks. But nonetheless, we can learn something about God by observing the heavens as if they were speaking to us. We understand the meaning. Antithetical parallelism occurs when the second phrase is the alternative to the first - like two sides of the same coin. An example is seen in Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” The first part proclaims the positive aspect of reverential submission to the Lord: knowledge. The second part problems the negative consequences of a refusal to submit to the Lord - a lack of wisdom. Hebrew scholar Dr. Steven Boyd has conducted a statistical analysis of 522 Old Testament passages. He found that poetic and narrative passages could be categorized with a better than 99% accuracy based on the verb usage alone. Dr. Boyd’s analysis showed conclusively that Genesis 1 is narrative history, not poetry. This means the only way to interpret it properly is as history, looking for its straightforward, historical meaning. The immediate context of each appearance of day in Genesis 1 conclusively establishes their length. Each day is marked by “evening and morning.” A day lasting millions of years would have far more than one evening and morning. Throughout the remainder of the Old Testament, when evening and morning are used together, they refer to a normal-length day. Each day is also linked with a number (“first day,” “second day”). This construction occurs more than 300 times in the Old Testament, and with only a couple of potential exceptions, it always signifies a normal-length day. Furthermore, in the original Hebrew, Genesis 1:31 states that the final day of Creation Week was indeed the sixth day. If millions of years had passed, then Day Six could not have been the sixth day. Another important consideration, often overlooked, is the fact that the plural form of the word day (‘yamim’) is never used anywhere in Scripture non-literally. “Days” (plural) always means “days.” And yet it is the plural form of the word that is used in Exodus 20:11 which states, “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them…” Since the plural form of days is used here, there can be no doubt that the author intended the indicate that God created literally in the span of six days. "Yom represents a revelational day. That is, in six literal days ( or possibly in a vision which represented to Moses the whole drama of creation in six visionary days ) God described to His prophet the mystery of how He had brought creation into being, and the stages by which He did so… This interpretation is perhaps tenable without surrendering the inerrancy of the Bible record. But it encounters several serious difficulties, chief among which is the complete absence of any hint or suggestion in the text of Genesis 1 that a mere vision is being described. It reads like perfectly straightforward history: In the beginning God created heaven and earth: on the first "day" He created light; on the second day He separated the waters into the upper and the lower, and so on." - Gleason L. Archer Jr., "A Survey of Old Testament Introduction." Moody Press, 2nd Ed, 1974, p.185 BY STEVEN W. BOYD, PH.D. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 01, 2004 (Dr. Steven W. Boyd is a creationist lecturer, professor, and scientist. He is Research Professor of Bible and Theology at Calvary University in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is also the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Creation Studies. He was formerly a Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at The Master's College (1998-2014). Dr. Boyd has a B.S. and a M.S. in Physics from Drexel University, a Th.M. in Old Testament and Semitics from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Hebraic and Cognate Studies from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. )

[@billjones261]

Jesus Christ may have been the humanistic god man ever created but the fact is he was created out wanting imagination by the people who wanted a god such as that. Peaceful loving and compassionate to the human experience, that's why this god is still believed and worshiped to this day.

[@rolfme5499]

@billjones261 The fictional god of the bible is a psychopathic mass murderer with a massive inferiority complex who hates humans! The fictional Jesus is evil und hates humans! .

[@SerikPoliasc]

Garcia George White William Lee Brian

[@billyguthrie3176]

The problem with Hawking an others of his ilk is they believe God just like all the other Gods is a creation of humans instead of a creator of humans!

[@Stupidityindex]

The Deceit of Religious Belief The only people who listen to this nonsense have no standards to exclude nonsense. And we are still dealing with this "think not I come with peace" nonsense. The religious are ludicrous, avoided like the old women with too many cats. Freud wrote the antidote to Christianity is literacy. Nothing fails like prayers in a children's hospital. Who sends their children to prophet trade-school? If there were a god, then would there be any demand for scripture interpretations by various podium-jockeys using fantasyland vocabulary? These are the religious, the wolves in sheep's clothing. Even Jesus says faith is worthless or you could order mountains to move about. The scam works with faith & prayers, suggesting we all should travel with one foot in their fantasyland. Theologians acquire grand titles without certification from a deity, & project certainty using fantasyland vocabulary in an academic setting to compensate for lack of reason. We really should address the social acceptance of large numbers of people speaking a fantasyland vocabulary & openly indulging in the deceit of religious belief as a tool of fascism. It was secular law & order ending the inquisitions & witch-killings. The Christians slapped their books on the Old Testament, & the Mormons glued theirs on to them both, thus proving Christians lack quality-control. As if God does not have a perfect record of doing nothing, as if we had no reason for the saying: God helps those helping themselves.

[@rolfme5499]

@billyguthrie3176 There is no creation! Humans are apes coming out of Africa! All gods are made up by liars! .

[@peterbarker8249]

.....sigh.... . ........

[@johnpro2847]

more ancient folklore dressed up as science..

[@petersiska7510]

Genesis is an ancient text that tried to explain complexity of universe with no scientific knowledge

[@williamwallace3257]

I love how Lennox thinks he has defeated real scientists light years ahead of him trained in subjects that he has no concept of understanding such as evolutionary biology and astrophysics by simply saying that they are poisoning science by deliberately lying and trying to teach people that God is not real! This is not an argument i would expect from a professor. This is an argument i would expect from an ignorant creationist! Clearly, Lennox cannot defeat these real scientists with science as he would have provided scientific evidence to show why he is right!

[@rolfme5499]

There are no gods! There is no creation! There is no heaven! .

[@CMEAGAIN]

Thanks Mr Dawkins

[@phild249]

@@CMEAGAIN Armchair speculation.

[@derhafi]

@@phild249 Yet it agrees with literalyy all emperical data there is. Gods only exist in the mnds of those who believe in them...they are not in competition with any given naturalistic explanation for anything in nature....…if anything, all "Gods" are in competition with goblins, pixies, bigfoot and such fantastical man-made fantasies, for their sheer existence. The label “real” can be pinned on them after there is a demonstrable correlation with reality, not before.

[@kenf4646]

I use to believe the same but now I am a Christian. I thank God daily for my change

[@rolfme5499]

@kenf4646 Thank you for admitting that you are extremely stupid! You still believe in fairy tales! .

[@mick1gallagher]

When is the lovely honest John going to tell us all about the millions he's made from the God thing come on honest John spit it out

[@SamIAm-kz4hg]

Michael Gallagher "When is the lovely honest John going to tell us all about the millions he's made from the God thing come on honest John spit it out" Shots fired. I'm still waiting for anything from him except his proposition that there is a god that lives outside of time and space who created everything. Does he ever say anything else?

[@tweekyseagull]

This is nothing but a huge reverberating argument from ignorance.

[@joewright9879]

tweekyseagull , and what? Illuminate our minds with your insights, or is the denial of intelligent design all you’ve got?

[@derhafi]

Remind me of all the emperical evidence ID subscriber have to support their idea (I'm not calling this brainfart a Theory, because it is't one) .

[@rstevewarmorycom]

@@joewright9879 It is malarkey and so is christianity.

[@nelsonsoto741]

This response is nothing but a willful rejection of your own reasoning

[@tweekyseagull]

Lennox simply uses the God of the Gaps in an authoritarian manner meant to subdue those who already believe. It is the opposite of reason. It is not a sound argument.