🌿 God: Fact or Fiction? A Quiet Reflection After Listening to John Lennox
- Melody Ching
- 2 days ago
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I spent some time today listening to John Lennox speak at a Veritas Forum event—an older talk, but somehow it felt incredibly fresh to me. Maybe it’s because the world feels noisier now. Maybe it’s because questions about God, truth, and reality feel more urgent in a culture that is constantly shifting. Or maybe it’s simply because my own heart needed the reminder that faith is not blind, and God is not fragile.
Whatever the reason, something in his words settled into me like a gentle weight—steadying, grounding, clarifying.
🔍 Faith Is Not Fiction—It’s Evidence Responded To
One of the things Lennox said that struck me deeply was this:Christian faith is evidence‑based.
Not wishful thinking.Not emotional comfort.Not a psychological crutch.
Evidence‑based.
I think sometimes, even as Christians, we forget this. We let the world tell us that faith is the opposite of reason, or that believing in God means shutting off our minds. But Lennox reminded me that the Christian faith actually invites the mind to engage. It welcomes questions. It stands up to scrutiny.
And more than that—it makes sense of the world in a way that purely material explanations simply cannot.
🧠 Rationality Itself Points Beyond the Natural
One of the key moments in the talk was when Lennox argued that our very ability to reason is evidence of something beyond the natural world. If our thoughts are nothing more than chemical reactions, then why trust them? Why trust logic? Why trust science?
It’s a simple point, but profound:If the universe is purely accidental, then rationality has no foundation. But if the universe is created by a rational God, then our ability to think, question, and understand is not an accident—it’s a reflection of Him.
As someone who teaches children, this resonates with me deeply. I see the spark of curiosity in their eyes. I see the way they ask “why?” with such sincerity. And I realise: this is not random. This is image‑bearing. This is design.
🌌 Ultimate Reality Is Not an Equation—It’s a Person
Another moment that stayed with me was Lennox’s exploration of “ultimate reality.” Science can tell us how things work, but it cannot tell us why anything exists at all. It cannot tell us what meaning is. It cannot tell us what love is. It cannot tell us why beauty moves us or why suffering breaks us.
These are not scientific questions.They are human questions.And they point us beyond the material.
Listening to Lennox reminded me again that ultimate reality is not a formula or a force—it is God Himself, eternal and personal. The One who created the heavens and the earth. The One who entered history in Christ. The One who holds all things together.
✝️ Why Christianity Still Makes Sense to Me
At one point Lennox said, “The Christian faith is true because it is rooted in history.” And I found myself nodding. Because that’s what anchors me too.
Christianity is not a myth we tell ourselves to feel better.It is not a story invented to explain the unknown.It is God stepping into time, into flesh, into suffering, into death—so that we might know Him.
And when I look at the world, at the brokenness and the beauty, at the longing and the logic, at the ache and the hope… Christianity still makes the most sense of it all.
🌱 A Final Thought
As I closed the video, I felt something quiet rise in me—not the loud certainty of having all the answers, but the gentle assurance that my faith is not foolish. That God is not fiction. That truth is not fragile.
And maybe that’s what I needed today.
Not a debate.Not an argument.Just a reminder that the God who made the universe is also the God who invites us to seek Him with our minds, our hearts, and our whole lives.
And that He is not afraid of our questions—because He is the truth behind them.
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