[2 of 7] Why do you believe in a Single God? David Skeel questions John Lennox at The Veritas Forum

why do you believe in a single God is is there any reason to believe that God is monotheistic as opposed to there being multiple gods well it's very difficult for me as a mathematician or as anything else to conceive of God the Creator the Eternal one as anything but one because otherwise you get into some kind of jeis or some some kind of thing that uh means that there are two ultimate realities but when I say that God is one I am a monotheist I listen to the questions being asked you know was God lonely

now that's a very revealing question and some people think that God was lonely and he created a few people to some company I think God is much more complex than that and again referring to the biblical revelation of God which we have formulated in the doctrine of the Trinity is that God the best way I know of explaining it is that God is a fellowship he has relationship within himself but he is one God and um I suppose the philosophers would say by the principle of aam's Razer one makes a lot more sense than many

and and what does God find most appealing about humans what what does he see in us well the fact that God made human beings In His Image which is of course the foundation of morality I believe and in most of our Western countries we can trace that historically this is giving to human beings an immense value and dignity in fact it's one of the reasons I'm a Christian because I don't find anything like that value because just let's think about it ladies and gentlemen uh God made man in own image the universe isn't Made In

His Image it shows his glory it is magnificent and we scientists love to study it but it wasn't Made In His Image you were that means in that sense that you're far more important than the Sun but you know that anyway you know it's there it doesn't know you're there you see so that it imparts to us an immense dignity but the second thing that weighs with me considerably and it's it's it's such a big thing I find it difficult to get my mind around we live in a world where the specialness of human beings

is under serious attack and I'm often asked why do you think we're special well the biggest Mark of our specialness is this if the central claim of Christianity is true then God became human so what is a human being a human being is the kind of creature that God can become that to my mind is staggering and it focuses this in a very powerful way for my mind for more information about the Veritas Forum including additional recordings and a calendar of upcoming events please visit our website at veritas.com