5 highlights from John Lennox on 'Diary of a CEO': AI, transhumanism and Christ
4. Agnostic Bartlett acknowledges ‘peace’ in Lennox, other Christians
Near the end of the conversation, Bartlett made a striking observation about Lennox and other Christian guests he has interviewed.
“You have a certain peace and contentment that I rarely see in people that I interview,” Bartlett told Lennox.
Bartlett’s interview with Lennox comes not long after he interviewed Canadian apologist Wesley Huff. As his conversation with Lennox wrapped up, Bartlett, an agnostic, said the theologian’s demeanor was “one of the most compelling arguments for God” that he had presented.
“You have a certain peace and contentment that I rarely see in people that I interview, but I often see, and I’ve almost always seen in the Christians that I’ve interviewed,” Bartlett said.
Huff, he added, “gave me the same feeling as you. [He] feels like a really happy person, content.”
Bartlett suggested a pattern was emerging among Christian thinkers featured on his show.
“Christian apologists have that anchoring that so many of us are looking for,” he said.
Lennox responded by noting that the peace found in Christianity is uniquely connected to forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
“I don't find that sense of fulfillment and peace that comes through the forgiveness in Christ,” in other religions, he said.
After Lennox insisted that religion gives “people something outside themselves,” he pushed back on Bartlett’s suggestion that “irrespective of which religion [it] fills that place in your life, you still get the same boost and meaning.”
“I don’t find this need met in those practitioners of other religions,” Lennox insisted. “I don’t find that sense of fulfillment and peace — that comes through the forgiveness in Christ.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
