Hardest question we have to face | John Lennox at SMU

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Oxford professor John Lennox explores the hardest question Christians have to face about their faith - the problem of suffering. | SMU, 2016 | View full forum here:    • Has science buried God?  Oxford profe...  . Explore more at www.veritas.org/.

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Timestamps:
00:00 The question of suffering and God
00:40 Two kinds of suffering & two perspectives
02:00 The atheist route of dealing with suffering
03:31 Can God be good and all-powerful?
05:00 Reframing the question
05:40 The claims of Christianity
08:20 Christianity is testable

All Comments (21)
  • @cochranedodge2
    I can listen to John Lennox talk all daylong. What a treasure.
  • Sitting here trying to prepare myself everyday for a phone call that my sick twenty five year old Daughter is gone; my only comfort right now is the cross. My saviors resurrection ensures me that no matter what happens, ill will see her again in paradise. GOD bless you Dr. Lennox. Please pray for my Daughter.
  • Honestly, this guy is one of the few apologists who I believe is truly saved.. With many others you see pride, absent from love for Christ. You see arguments, yet no thought or heart for Christ. He points to Christ, and not his opinion or argument. I usually don't like apologists, because of the pride you see coming from them, the way they look down on people who's eyes have not been opened, yet with him you can see he understands that it is only by grace that his eyes have been opened. I also loved how he didn't say that he believes in Christ because of great reasoning, arguments or scholastic evidences but because of the actual human evidence; the power of change that salvation brings. As Paul said, I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God unto salvation... it truly is powerful and not some dead believe that leaves you unchanged.
  • @Netomp51
    This is the video that changed my mind completely I am catholic but I had questions and I was skeptic, Mr John Lenox you are a truly man of God for doing what you do, God bless you Sir, I have now restablished my faith ! God it’s incredible, he revealed to me ! I was in complete tears feeling something inexplicable ❤ it was God
  • @hlatse98
    How I love this man! An incredible mind and a beautiful heart. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us, Prof Lennox ❤🇿🇦
  • @thomasmartinscott
    The people I see struggling the hardest with these questions are the ones who have never heard what True Christianity says, but they've listened to what this denomination or that denomination says ABOUT what the Bible says. That's like hearing an ignorant neighbor talking about another neighbor and buying into it, instead of going and meeting that neighbor for yourself, and forming your own opinion. Start with the book of John. (The Bible is not chronologic to be read as a novel.) It's YOUR soul at stake, don't let anyone else have the final Word, but God!
  • @jackson1915
    Just brilliant! Oh to be as eloquent and knowledgeable as John Lennox. What a gift God has given him. Christ centred and so powerful.
  • @SheepDog1974
    "there is no rational justification for morality without God; and there is no rational justification for science without God"🙏
  • @ceahlau
    He is such an unbelievably intellectual apologist. God bless him.
  • @jceloz6148
    I knew Jesus Christ in my suffering. Not in church, not in family, not in friends, not in school, not while I was peaceful, not while I was happy, but during the darkest struggles of my life. There He was, and the cross. Only then I realized, how in my suffering, compared to Jesus Christ on the cross, Im way too comfortable.
  • @alanparks7919
    I had the high honor of sharing a week long conference with Dr. John. Each of us spoke twice per day. I felt so utterly small; but he was so very gracious, kind, and encouraging. His passion is as prodigious as is his vast intellect. He’s genuinely humble and kind. A treasure to the church.
  • John Lenox is one of the only insanely brilliant people who can make the complex so understandable!!
  • @ejwoods2457
    He’s right. I’m one of those addicts that discovered Christ who transformed me and rescued me from the domain of darkness!
  • @kendallt2020
    the man with communication major, love the way his vocabulary paints understanding.
  • Suffering is like the rain, it falls on the just and unjust. God could minutely control it where it only falls on the unjust. But then the liberty He grants to humanity, would be sorely curtailed. We are free to err, but also free to win. Still in this journey called life we often make mistakes, often are in the wrong place, or just have a scale that must be balanced. And only God knows ALL the answers. This I believe, without God I would be LOST. Thankfully, I have Christ who leads me. Thank You Lord. Godspeed pilgrims.
  • John Lennox, excellent explanations all the time, genius man of God😇🙌♥️👌
  • God gave us Free Will. A dangerous thing to do. But we have this great power.