John 3:18-19 - He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:18-19 - He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Atheist YouTuber WOWED by Christian Professor on the Problem of Evil
"Taken from a wonderful conversation between Alex O'Connor and Professor John Lennox"
I've watched Alex O'Connor before interviewing people such as Jordan Peterson and others. I've watched professor John Lennox in the past for a long time too. Professor Lennox is very interesting and the way he approaches the problem of evil is interesting. Others have did sermons on this problem for time and memorial. And I understand Alex is an agnostic. He thinks with the tons of arguments for God that you can't disprove God that's true. God must exist but who is he? He also said I believe he read the Bible before but he has a problem with the resurrection story. Alex as I said before and in other writings unless the father draws you you can't come to him. John 6:44 You can cry out call out. You can pray to the God as described in the bible. I will tell you there's people throughout the centuries that have absolutely clarity knowing that Christ really did die on the cross and really had risen from the dead. Some people's hearts are so wicked that their own wickedness blinds them not just the devil. When they are adapted to a sinful world and they have come to know the vanities what they can see not spiritually their in turmoil. I'm not saying that their all evil that they go out there and do evil but you get so lost in the confusion that the risk is you'll never see even perish. But then Christ said he will not turn away anybody that comes to him. You can read the Bible till Kingdom come and still lose your soul. It's all in belief & knowing what deception is!!!. The Bible says be still and know God exists. It tells us the fool has said there's no God in their heart. You must believe he exists. Man is without excuse. So to understand why evil exists it is impossible to fully comprehend without knowing God exists and he gave us the holy scriptures being the Bible his WORD. We have the 1611 King James Bible that is despised by some cults because it tends to tell the truth. Maybe not their truth but it certainly is the truth. What we see in scripture is what we see in the world. We are told Israel would be hated by most of the nations if not all of them and that's exactly what we see. Even regarding the land giveaway! Leviticus 26: Ezekiel 12:20
We see men making weapons of war world war 1, & 2 and coming world war 3 including what's going on in the Ukraine and in Israel right now and the other small world wars that have gone on in Afghanistan and in Syria the chaos and also the chaos that has gone on in Bosnia and Iraq let alone Hiroshima or even Vietnam.
The God of Israel it's the same nation that in 1948 prophecy came true and Israel became a nation again is real and he's the God that gave you your soul. His son who was a Jew on Earth (IMANNUAL) whom always existed before being born on Earth the word of God became flesh and dwelt among us said a man must be born again or he can't see the kingdom of God. John 3:3 He told Nicodemus a Jewish Pharisee in his time on Earth this mystery to many. Why do you have to be born again to see God's Kingdom? Because you are a sinner and you need a heart of flesh instead of a heart of stone that is unable to obey God. It's called the rebirth, the regeneration of the heart. Why do you think when men looked at the ark of the covenant without authority/consent so many of them drop dead. 2 Samuel 6:3-7 Samuel 6:19-21 The Commandments on the ark of the covenant we're written with God's finger and God is Holy but lost men are not holy as man is evil/as sinful and so looking at that being full of sin brings forth death as it did. The Bible says 50,000 men drop dead for disobeying God. People will have discrepancy on that number. This is a real process Alex. This comes from the God being born again. This comes not through pagan religion but is a spiritual process. This is real. It doesn't mean that these people won't have trouble in this life still. Now they have the great gift on top of John 3:16 and they're being taught by God. Evidently they still could learn from other Christians or preachers that have gone through the same process that are on meat not on milk. They're not babies in the faith and some of these preachers are highly anointed. They're known of God and they know God.
You know I have a family member that said this is one of the parents the world is good because they were religious and blind by lies. The world is abundantly evil and the great king and savior Jesus Christ (Yeshua - HEBEW) testified to that fact. He even said if the world hates you know it hated him first. It rejected in essence the son of the living God. That's how wicked this world really is. Meanwhile it has many antichrists come into the world.
While we have nations that have some sort of freedom in America they talk about the American dream which is real at least at one time or another. I'm sure that dream also extended to some other nations around the world. So what I'm getting at we have educated people and people that have made enormous amounts of money and have more than one home and have no problem with money. We have celebrities and famous people that have an abundance that is so great meanwhile we also have celebrities that lost everything even their fame some of them. But there's something to learn in celebrity and famous people because you get money, you get fame and you easily forget about God that you claim to have known or followed and believed in. They usually point at Oprah Winfrey in this case. You feel the world loving you and now you disobey God and you think the great gift came from God but remember the devil tempted Christ and wanted to give Christ great portions of this world because he controls it. He tempted the son of the living God with contempt. And Christ responded 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
In Isaiah 2:4 it is written there will come a day when when man does not make war anymore. They'll come a day that he stops making military equipment and murdering each other. I believe biblical Hebrew Jesus said there will come a day when the lion lies down with the lamb. There's going to be a new heaven and Earth one day and the old will have passed away and no longer be here. Will you be on the new Earth? If you're not a born again Christian and you're not a true believer nor are you a saint in God's eyes you probably won't be on it you may be in eternal damnation your eternal home because you don't care about your own soul, nor truth, nor that the son of GOD died for the sins of the world but you just trample the blood of Christ as the world does. The world is actually passing away.
On Earth we have many nations with thousands of different religions but only a handful of world religions and the majority of them are all false. They might have some commonalities of truth. But we are warned about false doctrine. We are told to test the spirits. We are told to contend for the faith once delivered onto the Saints. Christ told us to take up our cross daily, not yearly, not monthly daily. We have people not only dying from natural events but from all sorts of sicknesses/diseases all the time. Hospitals around the world are probably not all full but a majority of them are. We have people displaced because of war. We have mass immigration going on around the world. We have all sorts of evil making the news whether it be fake news or real news some sort of media. We have a world with an underground world and people doing evil in secret. Around the world we have people worshiping the devil and then we have people with houses that will read your palm and bring up spirits and all sorts of evil things that is an abomination to the God of Israel. We have horoscopes which is also an abomination unto God and I'm sure a lot of religious people look at these everyday as they defile themselves!! How they attract people to sins of the flesh by such as sunshine girl and dirty magazines. They use attractive women even in the news broadcasts because it reels in suckers. Vanity, vanity, all his vanity said the preacher. What matters is your soul. God looks at the heart of the man but the world looks at the vanity outside appearance of a man. They are still drooling over certain celebrities even that are deceased while people are following all sorts of evils. These people there's a good chance they might be in hell but people do not see the heart of people only God searches and knows the heart. A human being can know a person is generally a good person on a human level in their eyes. Such as some people have been raised with fantastic parents that were good providers. Sometimes not good spiritual people. For example if you tell your son he is good for nothing you are destroying him as parents do these things. We have parents on drugs and that's swear in front of their kids and they're involved in all sorts of evil things.
Through the holy scriptures, the holy Prophets, and the real Prophets that God sent into the world such as Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, etc., and the writers of the Bible God's holy words as men were moved to record those words it is an instruction manual not just the holy book. It tells us in scripture as Christ demonstrated when he cast out demons even in young children that are susceptible to such things because God tells us what not to do and what we should do including worship. People such as men as it is written; light came into the world and men cleaved to darkness. Man hates the light because it reproofs his sinful nature. This is yet another reason why you must be born again. If you doubt God who gave your soul how will you ever understand. Then when you die in your sins and your sentenced to damnation you cry out all of a sudden it matters when it's too late. If they would not believe Moses and the prophets as written in scripture how will they believe if somebody rose from the dead to go warn his five brothers that this place called hell is real. Luke 16:28 As it is written the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Solomon in his great wisdom understood that all is vanity. You don't take it with you. It doesn't mean you should be evil and leave nothing if you're able to for others or your children. You have to lean not on your own understanding because if you do you risk greatly perishing.
When you commit sin from the flesh such as masturbation, such as sex with other people even married people when you yourself are married or you are involved in pornography or in sexual movies of such you are transgressing the God who gave you his holy word instructions on righteousness and also your soul. You are tampering with your soul. When they abort children they are in direct rebellion to the God who gave them their soul. You can't put a chastity belt on people. That's not how God dealt with things. Some people wander why he created a world that's full of evil. Wasn't there a fall in heaven and the devil and his angels were evicted. Yes there was a war in heaven. God has a reason to create this world. John 3:16 is the gift of all gifts have you accepted it? This world is God's footstool. In this world we also have enemies of the cross. People trying to go to heaven with a false Jesus Christ and a false god/gospel. There are people selling religion instead of relationship. People are misdirecting people from true salvation but that claim to represent God through many false doctrines. You will know them by their fruits.
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1: 21-1:22 KJV
The evil that people do again in my afterthoughts is displayed in the violent protests and the evil that is perpetrated around the world onto human beings. People wanting to be entitled. People stealing what is not theirs such as auto theft and everything in between. Cars slamming into jewelry stores to steal the jewelry I seen sometimes in the newspapers media. People holding up Banks. Everything evil under the Sun meanwhile people die every day and a great majority of them are absent from the body present in torment. God loved them he sent his only begotten son into the world but they did not know God nor loved God they loved their sinful pleasures and they reaped what they sowed. Is this going to be you are you going to be amongst the people in eternal damnation one day. Remember nobody's promised another day you might just transpire at some point in time and end up there. Grab the lifeline. Cry out to Christ to save a wretch as yourself do it today don't waste time. Read the Holy scriptures and start to pray. It is recommended to tell yourself you're going to make a change. Where are you going when you breathe your last breath?