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101 " Sometimes you don't answer the question, you answer the questioner. "
― John C. Lennox
102 " A Christian, then, is not a person who has solved the problem of suffering but one who has come to love and trust the God who has suffered for them. "
― John C. Lennox , Where is God in a Coronavirus World?
103 " The delightful irony of all this is that if we for a moment (but only for a moment) adopt the New Atheists’ definition of faith as blind belief, then their atheism seems in prime position to be the only true faith around. "
― John C. Lennox , Gunning for God: A Critique of the New Atheism
104 " Un libro sobre el sufrimiento que no diga nada acerca del cielo está dejando fuera casi por completo una cara de la moneda. Las Escrituras y la tradición colocan habitualmente en la balanza los gozos del cielo frente al sufrimiento en la tierra, y toda solución al problema del dolor que no haga eso no puede denominarse cristiana. Hoy en día nos da mucha vergüenza mencionar el cielo. Nos asusta que se burlen de nuestros “castillos en el aire”... pero o hay castillo en el aire o no lo hay. Si no lo hay, entonces el cristianismo es falso, porque esta doctrina se entreteje en todo su tejido. Si lo hay, entonces esta verdad, como cualquier otra, debe enfrentarse... "
105 " Las leyes físicas no pueden crear nada por su cuenta; son una simple descripción (matemática) de lo que acontece habitualmente bajo ciertas condiciones dadas. "
106 " Not surprisingly, the New Atheists find the resurrection as laughable as their Epicurean antecedents did. At the culmination of the “God Delusion” debate in Alabama, when I mentioned the resurrection, Richard Dawkins responded in amazement at what he thought was my naiveté: “So we come down to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It’s so petty; it’s so trivial; it’s so local; it’s so earthbound; it’s so unworthy of the universe.” I found this an astonishingly illogical outburst, for the naiveté was not mine. If Dawkins had simply affirmed his belief that Jesus did not rise from the dead, I would have understood it. However, to say that the resurrection is petty, trivial, and earthbound is to betray a profound failure to grasp what the resurrection is and what it implies. Petty, trivial, and earthbound are exactly what the resurrection isn’t — if it happened. It is atheism, with its oblivion at death, that makes us earthbound, petty, and trivial. If Jesus rose from the dead, it demonstrates that he is very much not earthbound but God the Creator incarnate. As for “unworthy of the universe”, the question should be: is the universe worthy of him? "