Faith in Hebrews 11.1, actually has a very subtle philosophical definition something like: “This is Faith: the underlying reality of the future; present evidence of things not yet fully seen.”

@m444ss

3 ай бұрын

"not yet 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 seen" but not completely unseen

I love John Lennox!

Hebrews 11:1 KJVS Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

@user-el3rk6os3p

3 ай бұрын

So, by faith you can believe any lie to be true then? Amazing.

@followjesusonly1

2 ай бұрын

@@user-el3rk6os3p Yes, from the Garden of Eden until today that has been proven to be true. That is why Jesus warns us repeatedly to not be deceived. As Satan belied El and received the name Beliel, so we are told to belie Eve (who put her faith in Beliel) and believe to receive the free gift of eternal life given through faith in Jesus Christ. Whom God the Father gave for us through his mercy and truth to make peace with us that we may receive his righteousness through the Spirit that makes us obedient to him. For by faith are we saved through grace, and not by our own efforts. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Psalms 85:10

@user-el3rk6os3p

2 ай бұрын

@@followjesusonly1 but what did the snake said that was a lie? Looks like the snake said only the true things as the Elohim themselves acknowledged. That's why they had to throw the people out of Eden so that they, after eating of the forbidden fruit, would not eat of the tree of life and life forever.

@followjesusonly1

2 ай бұрын

@@user-el3rk6os3p How can you say he didn't lie? They surely died just like God said they would. They were thrown out because man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. When they rejected his word God rejected them, just like he will do now to everyone who rejects his Son, who is his Word made flesh.

@user-el3rk6os3p

2 ай бұрын

@@followjesusonly1 God said they would die in the day they eat of it. Snake said no. Snake was right as Adam lived for hundreds of years more. AND the reason the people died is not because of the tree of knowledge but because God prevented them from the access to the tree of life. Had the people eaten of the tree of life they would live forever after eating of the forbidden fruit.

There's nothing more dangerous to reason than allowing people to re-define words and language to suit their social, political, or philosophical arguments.

@kwahujakquai6726

20 күн бұрын

Definitions of words are based upon their usages. Language evolves. Try reading the 1611 King James Bible and compare it to how folks speak today. Imagine how language will change a few thousand years from now, that is, if humanity doesn't destroy itself by then.

Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Thank you for posting this. It has really helped me🙏

Sir lennox thank for conversations.we must repair satan,s damages on public,religion.we need good times.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen! Hebrews 11;1!

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

Tell me, do you also believe in the tooth fairy, Big Foot, Santa Claus, ghosts? if there is a god of the bible, it's clearly a psychopath! Why would you want to be with that?

@TheTruthKiwi

3 ай бұрын

So, it's wishful thinking and delusion then.

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

@@TheTruthKiwi Yes I think it is, but religion is the best tax-free Ponzi scheme ever! Not to mention, Religion poisons everything, Christopher Hitchens!

It's an action based upon a beliefs sustained by confidence ABC

@vhawk1951kl

2 ай бұрын

Beware tautolgies; confifence simply means with_faith, just as conscience meand with_knowledge and so does conscious. Fides , faith, con, with thus con_fides, with faith. Fith is the *Exact oposite of belief, the two being as much alike as a nail is like a requiem; faith being active while that dreadful weakness belief is mechanically passive.Belief is ipso facto the exact_opposite* of knowledge, while I would attentively suggest that faith is a *form* of knowledge. Our friend the centurion did not b-e-l-i-e-v-e that jesus could cure his chap at a distance, he was *perfectly_certain* that he could , and the vignette is one of the more interesting parts of that work of art made by beings with real knowledge that is the story of jesus as revealed in what is called the gospels, and although it is very striking I wonder if it qualifies as so-to-say*objective* art.

❤

faith in religion is the basic necessity to start the journey towards SUPREME knowledge and unification with the MASTER

John Lennox is just brilliant😂💯

@marksnow7569

3 ай бұрын

He's good at appearing to be brilliant through rhetoric. If he had chosen the Oxford English Dictionary definition of religious faith, the discussion would have been less exciting: _"the capacity to spiritually apprehend divine truths, or realities beyond the limits of perception or of logical proof, viewed either as a faculty of the human soul, or as the result of divine illumination."_ Funnily enough, the Webster definition problem may have been caused by Christianity. Faith in its most basic sense is two-way; a person can have faith, but a person can also be faithful. In Christianity, the one being faithful to the one who has faith is God, but since the ascension of Jesus, the workings of God have not been apparent to all.

@paulhaynes3688

3 ай бұрын

Yes if you go by faith and belief over evidence

@ashwayn

3 ай бұрын

No he lies

@davidarbogast37

3 ай бұрын

If asserting ridiculous rhetoric to justify ridiculous, insubstantial, unjustifiable beliefs is brilliant, then yeah, he's certainly brilliant with that.

Gotta love how he breaks it down so simply yet there will be people to still say that Faith = Blind Faith. May they reach out to Jesus

@TheTruthKiwi

3 ай бұрын

What evidence is there that any supernatural claims made in the bible are true?

@ashwayn

3 ай бұрын

He is simple

The *Exact_opposite* of belief- which is a form of dreaming Belief is as much like faith as a nail is like a requiem.

BRILLIANT.

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

Brilliant?? in what way, NOTICE HOW MANY TIMES HE STUCK THE WORD TRUST IN! Faith you just live in hope, but trust HAS TO BE EARNED!

👏 ❤

Believing without questioning.

We all have faith, that the floor will not colaps under our weight, that the sun will rise, that the shoes that fit last night will still fit in the morning. But all these faiths take place because of past experiences. Floors can break. Feet swell up suns explode, death will have its way with us. Faith in God may be even stronger not because he never fails because God constantly fails. It is that very hidden nature that gives us faith because we have no expectations of a God doing anything so we are never disappointed.

"Faith ...." Bertha Dudde 7951 🔦✝

The Bible definition of faith in Hebrews 11 is required: "...faith is the assurance of [things] hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." NASB.

We use faith when we can't figure out reality. When we ritualize our confusion, we get religion.

@CSUnger

3 ай бұрын

Oh? So YOU’VE figured out reality, huh?

@Mmmmm173

3 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ is the reality, come to Him before you die or even today!!!😊

@apotropoxyz6685

3 ай бұрын

We figure out reality every day. @@CSUnger

@CSUnger

3 ай бұрын

Well then, apostrophyz, you should bottle yours and sell it because a lot of people out there don’t seem to have gotten the memo.

@apotropoxyz6685

3 ай бұрын

@@CSUnger ... More and more are learning to read each day.

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

YES, BUT DOES IT WORK? Better to use trust, that has to be earned!

Baby don’t hurt me don’t hurt me no more, whoops wrong video

Faith is a conspiration theory in the religious field. Easy to get entangled in, difficult to get rid off.

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

YES, FAITH IS THE ENEMY OF LOGIC! To be doubtful, could be the beginning of wisdom.

@kwahujakquai6726

20 күн бұрын

@@gknight4719 I agree. Karl Popper's ideas of turning the flawed knowledge paradigm from; Justified, true, belief: into Unjustified, Untrue, Unbelief. Is the standard now within modern methodological science. He felt that true knowledge, perhaps the closest we humankind will ever manage to reach as truth, is to pursue claims, as specifically as possible, and unending, until they have been falsified, to then know it's untruth. He thought only untrue falsifiable claims could be recognized as knowledge. Claims that aren't falsifiable, should simply be rejected as viable, sound knowledge. This simply is because anyone can find supporting evidence for a claim that can't be falsified. (ex. There's a God. Just look at the trees.) The parable of the invisible gardener can be helpful for better understanding.

Lennox is funny

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

Funny, as in gone loopy? BELIEVES IN A MAGIC MAN IN THE SKY.

I've kept believing that I will wake up tomorrow for the past 64 years.

We are born with no faith. Religions are not 'faiths', just religious belief systems. God alone gives true faith at spiritual rebirth, so we can't boast. Faith, is not belief. Even the demons believe and they shudder.

@Jewonastick

3 ай бұрын

Faith is not believe??

@kwahujakquai6726

20 күн бұрын

@@Jewonastick Of course it isn't believe. Faith is Make-Believe.

Faith is the belief in magic. But we still call a plumber when the pipes leak. Nobody ever asked the god of Israel to install central heating !

faith is something you believe that no one in his right mind would believe

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

John can add up numbers, but it seems he does not know the difference between "faith and trust" Trust you have to "earn" and with faith, you just "give it away" Just because it was written in a book that has been translated through a hedge backward John thinks it's true?? silly smug John!

@TheTruthKiwi

3 ай бұрын

@@gknight4719 I can never understand how seemingly intelligent people think old superstition, myth, legend and woo woo is reality. Indoctrination, wishful thinking, fear, gullibility, delusion and ignorance are powerful things I guess.

@Gesu_Re_dei_re

3 ай бұрын

So you'll never get married, have friends, use the bus/train/airplane or even the car, eat from restaurants/markets, you'll not even breath if you don't test the air before, etc...wow

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

@@Gesu_Re_dei_re NO IT'S NONE OF THOSE! To me, life is a gamble you are here for a short time and then gone forever! Now you may be able to believe in a magic man in the sky, I do not! So control is an elution! and faith is a very risky proposition to find what is true. Trust has to be earned "over time" and will give you a higher chance of succeeding, than just wishing it would be so by using the faith system, basically lying to yourself!

@Gesu_Re_dei_re

3 ай бұрын

@gknight4719 you trust all of those things plus your own opinion even if without evidence. No, my faith is evidence based, and truth is the same yesterday as tomorrow, if not it's a man made truth, a subjective view, hence not the truth. I don't believe in magic nor in a man in the sky, nor I believe in gambling my life away like you said you do, I know there is a God and I put my faith in Him. Break your mind control and see the truth, I will pray for you either way

The Christian concludes that belief in believing will save you. That is ludicrous. Only it's much worse because in claiming that belief will save you, you are actually believing in the credibility of the one who makes such claims. (i.e. the anonymous authors of the gospels and the writings of Paul) Layered beliefs is not evidential; it's faith. If it were evidential it would be called something else. Something like Science.

Faith is merely believing something, and living your life accordingly. If you set your alarm you have faith it will wake you up in the morning to get to work on time. If you sit in a chair, you have faith it will support your weight.

@alexmala6483

3 ай бұрын

But this kind of faith is based on evidence, just like faith in God. Your alarm worked every time you set it up, and your chair supported your weight ever time you sat on it.

@TheTruthKiwi

3 ай бұрын

@@alexmala6483 Except an alarm clock and a chair are demonstrable. God is not.

@alexmala6483

3 ай бұрын

@@TheTruthKiwi just because you think that, it doesn't make it true. Do you understand the difference between 'demonstration', 'proof' and 'evidence'?

@TheTruthKiwi

3 ай бұрын

@@alexmala6483 How exactly do you know that god exists?

@alexmala6483

3 ай бұрын

@@TheTruthKiwi common sense, study, experience, evidence. They all point to the conclusion God is.

👑 Genesis 12:1, Now the LORD had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land I will ( shew ) thee. Genesis 4. So Abram (departed ), as the LORD had spoken unto him. Abram had a point of view to begin with. But imagine his journey being guided by God??👑

@kwahujakquai6726

20 күн бұрын

Most of the Bible "IS" pure imagination, so it isn't a difficult request.

Religion is the sum of those beliefs, practices and prohibitions that pertain to a person’s concept of the highest powers of the universe. No, I didn’t get that definition from a dictionary. Why? Because, somewhere about the eighteenth or nineteenth century, conservatives shot themselves in the foot by equating “religion” with “theism”. They undoubtedly assumed the narrower definition would give them an advantage but it has turned out to be much otherwise. Because that too-narrow definition as been applied to the question of what may be taught at taxpayer expense in public schools and colleges, theistic views are excluded and atheistic views are allowed. The more inclusive definition, when applied to the beliefs and practices of people who worship Mother Earth or the goddess of Reason, would mean that NOBODY’S concept of the nature or origin of the universe would be promoted at taxpayer’s expense and neither would the practices that pertain to those concepts. It would still be appropriate to teach ABOUT the history of such beliefs and practices. The enforcement of prohibitions would not include penalizing people for having a philosophy different from that of the majority or for acting in accordance with such a philosophy. Such enforcement would not include imposing penalties that impinge on individual liberty. Example: When our son was in middle school, he came home with an assignment to get us (his parents) to sign a statement saying that we would recycle. I wrote a letter to the school board and expedited its delivery: My parents were recycling when I was born during WWII and they continued to do so until they died in the ‘80s. I have done so to the extent I have known how. I highly recommend it. I would prefer that local governments facilitate the recycling of some things (“tin” cans, for example), even if taxpayers have to underwrite the difference between the cost of facilitating such recycling and the price the city is able to get from businesses that recycle those items. Some families consider conspicuous consumption to be a virtue. It isn’t appropriate to promote a philosophy at taxpayer expense contrary to that of the students’ parents, even if I disagree with the philosophy of those parents.

Faith is a gift we're grateful for. Believers dont need any evidence to explain or justify their faith. Evidence is for those who are still in doubt.

@davidarbogast37

3 ай бұрын

Patently false, but okay.

It doesn't matter which god you worship except for one factor. Popular gods are obviously very busy working for many people. So it's best to worship an unpopular god, to get their full attention. So I recommend worshipping Cupid, who longs for some love. But if too many pick Cupid, then I will pick Nike (and vice versa).

1:38 "Christian faith is based on evidence. Like here, some book, from a long time ago, saying that there is evidence, which is conveniently not around for us to examine now, and the central piece of which conveniently floated up into the sky."

Definition of Faith... A Strong Belief in God or in the Doctrines of a Religion, Based on Spiritual Apprehension Rather Than PROOF. Faith is not PROOF... Sorry if you don't understand this it's not my problem... “If You Think You Know Everything, You’ll Never Learn Anything,”

@masterjose8483

3 ай бұрын

So smart 🤓

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” I can’t imagine anyone giving a better definition of religious faith. To believe without sufficient evidence. It’s applauded, respected, and encouraged. It’s what I tried and failed to develop when I was a practicing theist. And I say practicing in the sense I never got there. Faith in more wide everyday use is confidence based on your previous experience/knowledge. The higher the risk or greater the danger, the less we’re willing to take on faith. If leaning on a guard rail on a high rise, I test it to reassure my faith is warranted, whereas on the ground I won’t bother. Lennox is a very eloquent and entertaining speaker, but also dishonest in the use of multiple layers of false equivalency here. Even throws in blind faith, and ‘atheism/science is a belief system’. In whatever way it might be, it’s not an equivalent to religious belief as Jesus laid out.

"Faith" is a free license to accept and believe any lie without question or discernment. "Faith" is the opposite of knowledge and is evil. "Faith" means control and always results in slavery. Knowledge is freedom.

@okellojeremy2700

3 ай бұрын

Faith is to depend on the Word only, to expect the Word only to do what it says. Faith is the Key of Knowledge. There are two elements of Knowledge - Faith and Truth. Without either, there is no Knowledge. To believe a lie does not make the lie true, neither does disbelief in the Truth make it false. Truth and Faith come by the Word, without which there is no Knowledge. Faith is simply to let God's Word be True in You.

@derekdurst2146

3 ай бұрын

@@okellojeremy2700 "Faith" is a belief, based on an emotion, usually fear but otherwise unfounded. Example: Religion, gods, heaven, etc.. Knowledge is a belief, based on observable, verifiable, evidence-based proof. Example: Evolution, Gravity, Composition of matter, Expanding Universe, etc.

Faith is believing without evidence, and denying reality

@CSUnger

3 ай бұрын

Didn’t hear a word he was saying.

@lawsonlawson9806

3 ай бұрын

Not sure if I agree ...I wouldn't believe in Christ without some sense and reason behind it. Historical evidence, nature screams out evidence of a creator. Not blind faith

@Tinesthia

3 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@lawsonlawson9806 If someone asked why you believe lightning exists, would you ever use the word faith while describing the visual, audible, after effects, witnesses and other evidence? I highly doubt it. Faith is the word we use when the evidence is not very good or non-existent. Biblically, faith itself is the evidence, the essence of things *hoped* for… not some well established evidence based belief. Jesus Himself is reported to have blessed those who would believe “without seeing” in the face of Thomas who needed more evidence. Thomas just should have had a little more “faith.” Nature itself simply does not demonstrate a “creator.” It is a non sequitor. We will fully disagree on how good any combination of “historical evidence” jumps the gap from “this could have a natural explanation” to “these reports could only have happened if a God exists.” @CSUnger We heard Lennox lie yes. We don’t need any faith to conduct science. All the assumptions in science are tested regularly, and wouldn’t produce accurate results if they weren’t at least approximately correct.

@CSUnger

3 ай бұрын

@ Tinesthia, In Christianity as in everything else, Faith is not belief. Faith is putting your belief into action.

@Tinesthia

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@CSUnger The distinction you wish to make here is irrelevant. Unfortunately my previous response was deleted, but is the exact same when I include your usage of the word “faith.” We don’t use the word faith when someone asks us why we believe in metal machines that fly in the sky, or bolts of electricity. We don’t need faith to _put our belief into action_ because we have so much evidence to point to, like photographs, direct observation, etc to put our belief into action. This is not the case for a deity, or claims of the supernatural. Biblically, faith itself is the evidence of things *unseen,* the essence of things *hoped* for. Jesus himself reportedly blessed those who believe *without seeing* in the face of Thomas who didn’t believe until he saw more evidence. This goes directly against those who try to say faith is belief based in evidence. Science does not require any faith at all. It is based on assumptions, and those assumptions either work at producing accurate results, or they don’t. Even if the assumptions are wrong, they are close enough to true to be pragmatically accepted, because of how precise of predictions we can make based on them.

This is NOT a difficult question to answer. Even asking the question leads me to believe that people don't know what a Dictionary is used for. Just look at the various dictionary definitions and apply the one that applies to BELIEVING SOMETHING WITHOUT EVIDENCE. Has the world become so complicated and confounding that even the simplest of humans can't figure out which definition of a word applies to what subject or usage? "Heaven forbid!!" 🤪 Do ordinary people really need someone else to explain to them the difference between faith and fact without the opinions of others, especially vested interests in the faithful community? Lennox may be a "mathematician" but that does not necessarily qualify him as a theologian, physicist, a cosmologist, a biblical scholar or historian. His arguments, like ALL theological arguments in favor of a god are based upon nothing but presupposition, conjecture and pseudo-logical arguments that contain no empirical facts. In fact, by appealing to the supernatural, Lennox has abandoned SCIENCE.

@Gweidemann

3 ай бұрын

It's not "...a god" as you wrongfully refer to God Our Heavenly Father as being. It's God of all gods, greater than all who oppose Him, and destroying all who foolishly attempt to destroy Him. He turns ALL His enemies into a footstool for His Son Jesus to rest His feet upon.

@galileog8945

3 ай бұрын

He also likes to prove other religions wrong. We often call the superstitions of others "myths" and ours "religion", but they are all false to the same extent.

@johnsserwanga1541

3 ай бұрын

You know what a dictionary is used for. Yet somehow you missed the appropriate or relevant definition of faith used by the one you critic: "belief and trust in and loyalty to God" (according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary ). Have some intellectual honesty especially when you deign to display your wares to the public!

@msmd3295

3 ай бұрын

@@Gweidemann I assume you're as "intelligent" as most other people. But what's baffling is why an intelligent being such as yourself cling to anachronistic fantasies and fictions to get through each day. What exists in the material universe that is so convincing there is a supernatural deity that started everything, runs everything, set in motion all the laws of physics, plays games with good and evil, changes its mind every few thousand years, blames HUMANKIND for Eternity because of our faulty ways even though we humanoids has NO say whatsoever in how and what we were "created" out of, are being punished for eternity for some ancient predecessor eating an "apple" [a fruit opening our eyes to knowledge between good and evil], a deity that demands obedience but never reveals itself, claims are made of supernatural events of which there is absolutely no evidence except verbal claims made by illiterate people. Do you really accept all that as any measure of "truth"? I've had to conclude after decades of observation of theists, in particular Christians, they find contemplating natural evidence and its ramifications just too "stressful" to integrate into their natural being. The only reason people believe that horse manure is NOT because they know better than anyone else. Instead they believe because they are "insecure" people that don't have the courage to face the universe for what it is... it couldn't care less about us humans. Believing religious claims, especially the supernatural claims is irrational and rationality is sacrificed due to a lack of courage to accept the natural universe "as-is". It's a duty though to accept the real world as it really is and gauge one's life on the realities of the physical universe and not harbor false hopes.

@msmd3295

3 ай бұрын

@@johnsserwanga1541 Gee, thanks for the linguistic lesson ! But I'll pitch that right back at you by repeating your "intellectual honesty" claim. Faith can be defined as you describe. But the fact that definition is there is because that's what people "do". And as the most relevant definition applied to religion is not necessarily what people do. Rather the most appropriate definition IS what it stands for. And faith, generally applied to any situation is as I said, "a belief based upon NO EVIDENCE. And the implication is that people of faith accept the belief even though they have no real evidence to believe. So you can weasel your way trying to get around the fact that FAITH is generally speaking believing anything without empirical evidence. And that certainly applies to the supernatural. Get over it and get past it.

There’s a big difference between there being no evidence for a belief, and you simply not being equipped to understand, or be willing to see the evidence. Christianity is evidence based. You not being willing or able to accept that is another matter entirely.

@lillaxxitiv1501

11 күн бұрын

What evidence?

@insightvideo6136

11 күн бұрын

@@lillaxxitiv1501 You’ll need to do your own homework, but I’ll get you started. Research the manuscript, archeological, prophetic, and statistical evidences in the Bible. They’re there, but you’ll need to look them up. That would be the “willing” and “able” parts I was talking about. If you don’t have those components, then don’t bother.

@lillaxxitiv1501

10 күн бұрын

@@insightvideo6136 Please drop that patronising tone, we are both adults here. I've been a Christian before and have seen what you have but do not find it convincing. Why? Because the 'evidence' is not conclusive as to whether the claims are true or not. You can point all the way back to the Pauline Epistles from ~30-40 years after Jesus' death but that really proves very little when looked at objectively. It's comparable to taking the Hadiths as evidence for the divine inspiration of Islam's teachings.

@insightvideo6136

10 күн бұрын

@@lillaxxitiv1501 It’s not adult to try and gain the high ground by claiming I’m somehow patronizing you. I’m sorry you’re so insecure in your stance that you need to attack my tone to get the upper hand. The evidence in the Bible is not meant to be “conclusive” It’s not a science text book. Maybe this is your problem, you’re approaching it the wrong way. If you were a Christian “before” maybe you were never really a Christian at all. It’s fine if the evidence doesn’t convince you. Believe what you want to believe. That doesn’t make the evidence any less real, or valid.

@lillaxxitiv1501

10 күн бұрын

@@insightvideo6136 Absolutely fascinating response on your part. Normally Christians aren't this brazen. I regret the tone we've gotten into at the start however, so I apologise for my opening. 1. If the evidence for God isn't conclusive then it probably isn't true. If God really existed and wanted us with him, the evidence should be undeniable or at least better than an ancient book with unimpressive, immoral and contradictory theology. 2. Carefully think about what it means to approach the evidence in a different way. You're presupposing the text is true to help prove that the text is true. That isn't how you examine the truth of text. 3. With all due respect, you don't know me and assumptions aren't helpful. I would assume a Christian would recognise the pride in their words. I'd also assume a rational mind wouldn't fall for and repeat these cult tactics.

If you think about it, faith is over rated. Faith is to believe something without good evidence.

One could have faith that magical pixies created the universe or that we are living in the matrix therefore faith alone is not a good pathway to truth.

Faith and Logic are opposites!

0:56 so I’d be a fool if I believed the Gospels are true? Thanks for the validation Looks like Jesus disagrees with Mr Lennox John 20:29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

@user-el3rk6os3p

3 ай бұрын

@@YuelSea-sw2rp no the Gospels are just stories they are not evidence. Otherwise, all of the Holy Books are evidence too. The Quaran, for example, is evidence of Allah being real and wanting us to accept Islam.

@byteme9718

3 ай бұрын

@@YuelSea-sw2rp The gospels consist of hearsay and claims, vary from each other on key points and were written by anonymous authors long after the death of your claimed JC. None of the original texts survive so they will almost certainly have been edited numerous times. In other words, they're worthless so why refer to John to support your claims?

@byteme9718

3 ай бұрын

@@YuelSea-sw2rp Has no one told you that John is completely anonymous? There is no evidence in the Bible, only claims.

@user-el3rk6os3p

3 ай бұрын

@@YuelSea-sw2rp //Apostle John is literally saying here that the signs Jesus did are evidence of who He is and what He claimed.//. Have you considered John 14:12? Jessus promised that believers in him will do the works that he has been working. Are you able to raise the dead? heal the blind? What's your miraculous deed like?

If you need a mustard seed-sized faith to move a mountain in order to be a Christian, then you need a mountain-sized faith to move a mustard seed in order to be an atheist. I love how he explains such a simple concept!!!

The hubris that is created in one's belief, that lacks any evidence other than stories and fables from a book, aka biblical faith, is tragically disgusting.

That's not what the bible definition of faith tells us. Faith has no evidentiary premise. Hebrews 11:1 shoots down everything this guy says: " The assurance if things hoped for: the conviction of things not yet beheld.."

This man is a Mathematician and a Christian and the sooner he just sticks to Maths the better

@gknight4719

3 ай бұрын

Silly smug john, maybe old age is causing it.

The only difference between faith and superstition is the spelling, the more superstitious you are the more religious you will be . Faith is what you have, when you don’t have evidence, otherwise if you had evidence, you wouldn’t need faith.

Theology is the Queen of Sciences. Or should I say the Meta?

@tarp-grommet

3 ай бұрын

Right. The next time you get an infection don't take the antibiotics. Prayer should do the job, old chap.

@johncondon4647

3 ай бұрын

@@tarp-grommet Thanks buddy. I've dodged the Covid vaccine and thus have a better chance of good heart health,

@tarp-grommet

3 ай бұрын

@@johncondon4647 And a better chance of ending up in the hospital, according to the stats. Or are those part of the medical conspiracy?

@davidarbogast37

3 ай бұрын

And you would be wrong with the assessment. Theology is the joker card of philosophy - silly and useless unless you create a special rule for its application.

@johncondon4647

3 ай бұрын

@@davidarbogast37 Not well learned in the history department, are you?

A child believing in santa is called faith

Dear Christians, Do you know that Jesus (according to the Bible) prayed five times a day, exactly as we Muslims do every single day! Morning prayer at dawn - Mark 1:35 "And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed". Noon prayer -Acts 10:9 , "On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour" Afternoon Prayer -Acts 3:1, "Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour". (at three in the afternoon) The Sunset Prayer - Math 14 : 23 , "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone". Night Prayer - Mark 14:35 , "And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him". Now If you truly love Jesus, then follow him and become a Muslim, because Jesus, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was a Muslim. Kind Regards.

@michellemaffione

3 ай бұрын

Jesus was a Jew , whether you like it or not !

@Exploresn

3 ай бұрын

@michellemaffione Yes, he was. In other words, God is Jewish whether you like it or not!

Faith is ignorance.

@isaacpeterson5020

17 күн бұрын

When you sit on a normal chair, you have faith that it will hold you up. If you had blind faith, or faith without reason, that's the equivalent of sitting on a broken chair hoping it'll hold you up. I'm a Christian that doesn't believe in blind faith

@abigailpenney

10 күн бұрын

I think that you do not truly believe what you have written, otherwise Thomas, you would not be listening to what John Lennox has to say.

Faith is wishful thinking caused by an infantile inability to accept reality.

This is just another batch of Lennoxian nonsense. Redefinition of the word "faith"? The word is colloquially used to mean "religious faith", which equates blind faith. The word can also be used in the sense that one believes certain notions are true though they have not been proven. It is Lennox himself who is trying so hard to exploit this polysemic nature of the word, so that he can mislead naive audiences. As an Oxford mathematician, he is very likely aware that the polysemic structure of the word is a simple case of the set theory. Yet he decided to hide it from his audiences. If he did this deliberately, he was being dishonest and manipulative. If he was not aware of it, his thinking is too dull (considering especially as an Oxford mathematician) to listen to.

More dishonesty from Lennox. Dawkins wrote a book on what he believed..... based on evidence! Then we get word salad as to what his evidence is. Because there isn't any. And asserts that the word "faith" had been redefined. He's either lying or incompetent. Atheism isn't a worldview! Why can't you understand that? It's the answer to one question. Why would anyone believe in a god?

Lennox only end up preaching in trying to defend a fairytale....

@user-se3ci4jb5r

3 ай бұрын

how can anyone take lennox seriously he's another joel osteen

@insightvideo6136

3 ай бұрын

@@user-se3ci4jb5r..You’re simply not able to understand what he’s saying. It’s you with the problem, not Lennox.

I love how he just makes up his own definition, contrary to the dictionary, because it suits what he wants to say. Even the bible disagrees with him: 2 Corinthians 5:7 - For we walk by Faith, not by sight. In other words, just believe, regardless of the evidence. Faith can lead one to competing conclusions. The faith of a christian is the same as the faith of a muslim. It is of no use if using it to determine what's true about reality.

Lennox's blubbering here demonstrates nothing but a bias towards his own unsubstantiated belief system, just like every other argument or assertation that he puts forth. When it comes to insubstantial religious ideology, faith derived from that is absolutely 'belief without evidence'. When used colloquially, it is merely confidence in the idea that something will happen based on a contract or agreement, or an established pattern of behavior, such as the case of when someone enters a marriage contract, you place faith in the idea that your spouse will not cheat on you based on the mutual agreement of this contract.

@insightvideo6136

3 ай бұрын

You didn’t understand a word he said.

@byteme9718

3 ай бұрын

@@insightvideo6136 Lennox never actually says anything of value and not once in his apologist career has supported a single point he's made with actual evidence.

@hugofernandes8545

3 ай бұрын

He is not a bias. He is explaining that atheism definition of "faith" is totally wrong. That's your definition of faith, not ours. Atheism itself is a belief system. "Faith" is NOT belief without evidence. At least that's not the Christian definition of faith. Christian faith is based on historical events, real people, real places, in Logic, it makes sense of the World we see and it is supported by evidences from history, archeology, science, philosophy, nde's, mystical experiences, personal experience of each Christian with Jesus, Jesus'apostles testimonies who were persecuted, arrested, tortured and murdered because what they claim they saw, heard, touched and witnessed about Jesus'life, miracles, dead and ressurection. Actually it is needed much more faith to be an atheist than to be a christian. Atheism is a logical nonsense and contradicts all the evidences for God and christianity from different backgrounds.

@byteme9718

3 ай бұрын

@@hugofernandes8545 "He is explaining that atheism definition of "faith" Atheists do not define faith. It's irrelevant to us, we simply don't believe because of the lack of any convincing evidence. "Atheism is a logical nonsense and contradicts all the evidences from different backgrounds." Just like Muslims you use the world logic without having a clue what it means. In both cases you use it to justify to yourself what you're not intelligent enough to understand. You have zero evidence for your god just as those who've invented thousand of others have for their's. Choose you single best evidence for your claimed god and I'll show you actually have none.

@byteme9718

3 ай бұрын

@@hugofernandes8545 You understand nothing and believe in a fantasy.

Faith is a decision to improvise if you don't know the answer or if something exists. You make up an answer or pretend something exists and have faith that you are right even thoigh you know you aren't because you made it up