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John Lennox, Jack Collins, and Bible Compromise

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People adore celebrities, often accepting their opinions and pronouncements on various topics without question. Christians have their celebrities as well. Many are current stars in the music industry, others are known for their lectures, debates, and occasionally for sermons.

It is indeed unfortunate that we admire people for wit and charm but may not check what they say with the Bible. Some have said things that are not only wrong, but harmful. These need to be identified and (if possible) shown their errors. This applies to Drs. John Lennox and Jack Collins.

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John Lennox is primarily a mathematician who uses philosophy and mixes in some theology. He easily dismantles atheism. Unfortunately, he accepts something that atheists rely on: deep time. Lennox not only accepts it, but encourages Christians to reject what the Bible clearly indicates about the young earth. He also believes in a local Flood.

Jack Collins is not so much a celebrity as someone with theological training. He can be brought out in an appeal to authority. He, too, rejects what the Bible teaches on recent six-day creation.

In both cases, they elevate secular philosophies above the Word of God and show that they do not care enough to see what the Bible teaches. They need to repent and accept the authority of Scripture.
In this one-minute video clip, Dr. Lennox contends that the Bible is silent about the age of the creation. So Christians should congenially agree to disagree. In his many lectures and his books, he has made it clear that although he does not believe in neo-Darwinian biological evolution, he does accept what evolutionary cosmologists and geologists say about the billions of years of cosmic and earth history. By this clip, Dr. Lennox is strongly encouraging Christians to accept those billions of years as fact.

You can read it all by visiting "Are John Lennox and Jack Collins Right About the Age of the Earth?" By the way, Lennox reject evolution. He's not being consistent in his compromise.