What Atheists Miss About Jesus – John Lennox
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John Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God, and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
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@CosmicSkeptic
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
The full episode is available now, early, on Substack: https://www.alexoconnor.com/p/john-lennox-on-evolution-logos-and
@niklo322
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Why everyone use this image of Jesus? Its not representing him correctly i think. It represents him like the painters thought one side of the face nice and pleasant and the other side more sinister to represent "his other side" so the painter. There are better portraits of Jesus why all using this one, it doesn't even look good
@DanielleMontague
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
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@jameslindsay24601
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
The certainty mentioned exists with atheists as well. They are truly certain there is no God and equally certain that only fools and con men believe in God. That type of certainty played out in the atheist totalitarians of the 20th century.
@lowendaction1
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
That kind of definitive speak about biblical things, as though they were provable facts, fatally undermines his position.
@BlueSube
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Does he look in the mirror and think, nothing wrong with THESE eyebrows?
@modelrailwaynoob
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
If people are born and are not conditioned to believe in gods by family or state but only taught what science we know to date, no one would feel the need or find any god. That says it all. I was Christened CofE, went to a CofE school, was in the choir and became an atheist aged 9, ironically playing Joseph in a nativity play.
@tonygoodkind7858
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
I mean depending on the stats you dig up it's something like 91% of US citizens are theist but 49% of scientists don't believe in a higher power. That's a huge difference, and is part of the overall trend where the more higher education you get (the more you learn to form beliefs rationally ), the less religiosity we see.
@kriswoodward7623
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Read Jesus words carefully, and follow them, everything that is in there is truth, a completely double edged sword!!
@Seawolf69
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
00:30 easy, pride, morons become midwits and let their ego and arrogance take over. They get half a clue about a few things, and think they know everything. When in reality they don't know a damn thing. But their ego and arrogance and pride has already inflated and refuse to bow to anyone or anything but themselves.
@vdoggydogg3922
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
We are missing nothing, nothing at all
@gjm3237
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
It is my opinion that religion is evil, and that the most evil of all religions is Christianity.
@_mycotroph
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Jesus wasnt a real person, its a lie straight down to the marrow. It was 50+ years after his supposed death, an entire first century lifetime, until anyone even mentioned he existed. Religion is limited liability corporation and everything theyve told is state sponsored lies for 2 thousand years
@theresamorrison1411
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Love John Lennox. He debates in such a crystal clear manner his opponents are shown to be in thrall to their own religion of atheism.
@billloveland6280
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
What then I'd fundamentalism? I am a Christian and am certain about my salvation in Christ. I am certain about how I ought to behave and what is right and what is wrong. If fundamentalism is being certain, then that is me. If fundamentalism is more about how you treat people who disagree with or oppose you, I don't think I am a fundamentalist. Thanks.
@kennethshort2016
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Where did this conversation take place? Looks like lots of cool old books.
@jordanspen7662
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
"Can't impose truth," you obviously dont live in the UK.
@boolsdip
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
youre seeing the truth, im just waiting for your heart to open.
asking all the right questions, but afraid of the implication that true answer might bring.
@aaronkatz2024
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Let’s see if John can make this one simple for me. I’ve tried to listen to him 10 times to have a masters degree to listen to this guy.
@BroadMeadow-d9s
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Pride/Hubris. It always goes back to that. Intelligent and educated people tend to be proud, and pride, more than any other bad personality trait, leads one away from God.
"God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." James 4: 6
@lauradsouza1345
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Prof Lennox to tell all schools about Jesus ✝️
@__________5737
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
New atheism was in part response to the nuttery of the 911 terrorists but also the premillenial dispensationalists which has dictated our foreign policy irrationally and still does.
@__________5737
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
A religious experience is only one type of numinous experience. Profundity and peace have many paths.
@DevynNicks
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Scripture says we are made in the image of God. Scripture says we are all beasts. I like Jesus but he leads you toward a hideous father. This is why I can't.
@santiagoaldana1060
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
For all my atheist friends, I want you to answer this question. I am 17 years old, and yesterday I attended a Catholic retreat. During the whole retreat, I kept thinking that God wasn’t real and that religion is ultimately a falsehood. When the retreat was coming to an end, a priest asked us to pray for a boy who had torn the cruciate ligaments in his knee. Five other people and I prayed for his knee (I felt quite hypocritical while praying). After we prayed, the boy stood up and walked. He hadn’t even been able to put weight on his right foot, and after the prayer, he threw away his crutches and started walking. The injury had happened two weeks earlier, and the doctor had told him that he wouldn’t even be able to put weight on his foot until November, let alone walk. What would my atheist friends do if, after praying in the name of Jesus, someone was miraculously healed, as I witnessed yesterday?
@Gracchus66
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Yeah but Hitchens absolutely smoked Lennox whenever they debated
@schmetterling4477
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
What I, as an atheist, miss about Jesus is compassion. Compassionate people don't torture others. Ever. For any reason. 😉
@jamieholmes6087
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
"New Atheism" looooool.
@DominicAquinasMartin
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
Protestants from Northern Ireland are not Irish. They are scotch pillagers
@Kissmyass8777
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 am
What atheists miss 🧐 nothing he’s not real neither is god grow up
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