I feel a bit ashamed and cheated that I've only recently "discovered" Dr. Lennox. He's a remarkable mixture of brilliance, faith and hope for all of us.

@HK4718

2 жыл бұрын

Snap!

@AsmongoldvsArtosisclips

2 күн бұрын

Yes,be ashamed you didnt hear himb4

Lovely. Could have listened to more of that.

as i understand it, no video / film footage of C.S. Lewis is known and only a small bit of audio recording. what a shame. so glad to hear people who saw him in person share their stories.

It takes more than intellect to love God, in fact the apologists are much needed but holy men are much more needed.

How I wished we have video recordings of CS Lewis' lectures like the videos we have of Lennox and others. 😢

Thank you for always speaking The Truth John. Amen

@calummacritchie7840

3 жыл бұрын

C.S Lewis was an astounding man. Especially how he came to Belief in Christ through Reason.

Loved this. Thank you

What a cool tune to go along with this. Above all, Praise God for these men.

"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." ---- Voltaire

@CrankyGrandma

Ай бұрын

Voltaire changed his tune on that in the end

@AtamMardes

Ай бұрын

@@CrankyGrandma Bravo. Keep lying for Jesus.

@sabhishek9289

Ай бұрын

​@@AtamMardesHow is it a lie? Also Voltaire was wrong about everything.

@AtamMardes

Ай бұрын

@@sabhishek9289 Only fools believe and consider as sacred the supernatural fairy tales, fictions, and myths just because a book claims itself to be the holy truth.

@sabhishek9289

Ай бұрын

@@AtamMardes To the uneducated (like you), scientific practices would appear as magic.

Obviously, CS Lewis’ lecturing style precluded a question and answer period.

There's peoples not hunderastating related general scientific energy power technology digital ecosystem research of general scientific

I love you John Lennox. You have always been a powerful force for Christianity. However, I need to question the reverence a few very good Christian apologists I listen to have for Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien because of their powerful, hidden "Christian" messages. My spiritual crap detector has always been set off by such claims. When Christ created allegories to explain God's message, or His kingdom, these stories at least had verisimilitude - that is, they resembled real life, and the moral of the story was absolutely applicable to the men and women listening. When he told the story of the good Samaritan, for example, he didn't need to say, "Once upon a time there was a Fnarp from the planet Zod". Compare this to the stories of Tolkien and Lewis: Lions and witches, Hobbits and Golems. Basically these writers have begun with a certain moral premise, or outcome, and created a series of fantastical episodes and that lead to that outcome - at least for the anthropomorphic beasts that populate their fiction. Once we finish reading about magicians and spells and rings and mystical castles and quests for the source of good, we're supposed to have some epiphany: "Ah, this was a Christian message! That's it! I'm converting to Christianity!" Yet there are Tolkien and Lewis geeks out there who are members of their university Tolkien or Lewis Societies, wear all the costumes, recite entire chapters by rote, and have no intention of replacing their idols with God. In fact, they simply don't know God. So much for those powerful hidden messages in these books! It might as well be Monty Python. The same claim of "powerful Christian allegory" can be, and has been, made for The Shack, in which God is an old black woman, or even Star Wars. I was once told by some Christian that, despite all the blasphemous ridicule of God in The Simpsons, it was all worth watching because one episode portrayed the nerdy, embarrassing "Christian" Ned Flanders in a good light, and therefore it was worth wading through all the rest and tolerating its message. Those Christians who accept anything on face value just because it's labelled "Christian" need to wake up. Both Lewis and Tolkien wrote many wise words in favour of their beliefs, and we might say they were very clever because they covered those beliefs with a Christian cloak. But what were those beliefs really? I myself have read Lewis's stuff that comes across as Christian apologetics. It turned out my suspicions were correct: he believed in a mysticism that is anything but Christian, and was a member of the same society as Tolkien - a society that counted the evil Alister Crowley as member and founder. That's how they became friends in the first place. People actually think they're spiritually evolved because they "understand" the message of this literature, but intellectual apprehension of the meaning shouldn't be mistaken for spiritual insight. If people had spiritual insight, something would be stirred in them to make them question the origins and intentions of the literature they read, the shows they watch, the preachers they listen to, the doctrines they hold, and the traditions they follow because millions (billions!) of others do, or because it's part of their culture. We need to listen to Christ's warnings about being watchful, about deception, about our vulnerability once we stray outside Scripture. He told us that many would preach a false Christ. He told us that they would be very deceptive. He told us to beware of counterfeits. Satan is much cleverer than you and me, and that's why God wants us to cling to Him and His Word with faith that He, and He alone, can show us the Truth, through Christ. This is no criticism of John Lennox. If I was an atheist, I'd be more likely to convert to Christianity after listening to Lennox speak than I would after reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, or the Chronicles of Narnia.

@sheerluckholmes7720

Ай бұрын

..."same society as Tolkien - a society that counted the evil Alister Crowley as member and founder. That's how they became friends ".....really...so what society is this ? 🤔Why leave out the name when you make such a claim in your otherwise excellent post?

Richard Dawkins makes a lot of money from C R Darwin. John Lennox makes a lot of money from C S Lewis. J H Christ made the Romans a bit upset.

@sheerluckholmes7720

Ай бұрын

I'd say the zealots upset the Romans more !

I wonder was L.S Lewis saved or not. As i understood he was a smoker, that does not look good, so he might have been an intellectual christian but never a true believer.

@samlancaster1277

3 жыл бұрын

Smoking isn’t any sort of factor in achieving Salvation ! We don’t walk by sight .

@thomasmcgeown2672

3 жыл бұрын

The Grace and Mercy of Christ has saved worse people than smokers

@nikokapanen82

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasmcgeown2672 Grace and mercy of Christ has not saved one single wilful sinner.

@justinthompson7332

3 жыл бұрын

@@nikokapanen82 then we are all bound for hell.

@nikokapanen82

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinthompson7332 A willful sin is a type of sin what you are not bound to do, yet you still do it because you just like the pleasure coming out of it. Such sin is not acceptable by God.