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Ravi
Zacharaias
West
Acres Baptist Church, Evans Georgia 1-17-2020
- Ravi Zacharaias' ministry RZIM has a team of 98 global speakers in 15 countries
- There is so much toxicity and vitriol in the media today. The whole dvison in the land is because the politicans have left God out of the process.
- Iran show down plane, all the lives, the intellect lost. No one says anything about the lives lost due to abortion.
- Differences come down to one word GOD
- All of this is happening to us because we have forgotten God.
- Good and evil, there is an irreconcilable difference
- The Parable of the Madman, Friedrich Nietzsche (didn't understand this) http://www.historyguide.org/europe/madman.html
- Hitler, Muslini … we paid a price
- right/wrong, left/right, up/down there is no frame of reference
- God has been taken away from our eduction system
- Philosophy
- absolute point of reference
- everything is in flux
- society has broken down boundaries
- God didn't come to the wold to make bad people good, he came to make dead people LIVE
- Moral Reasoning and Meaning
- collapse of our culture
- worst is higher education
- If God doesn't exist, there is no moral imperitive, no point of reference
- In David Berlinski in his book, The Devil's Delusion:"Has quantum cosmology explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here? Not even close. Have our sciences explained why our universe seems to be fine-tuned to allow for the existence of life? Not even close. Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything so long as it is not religious thought? Close enough. Has rationalism and moral thought provided us with an understanding of what is good, what is right, and what is moral? Not close enough. Has secularism in the terrible 20th century been a force for good? Not even close, to being close. Is there a narrow and oppressive orthodoxy in the sciences? Close enough. Does anything in the sciences or their philosophy justify the claim that religious belief is irrational? Not even in the ball park. Is scientific atheism a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt? Dead on."
- God LOVES you! DNA Soul
- naturalists say do whatever makes you happy
- Sense of awe and wonder (childlikeness)
- Truth (no meaning without truth)
- Love (belongingness)
- Seccurity
- without God there is no definition of love
- Pete Buttigieg says love between two people is fine. Zacharaias answers then why ot 4 or 5 people who love each other in a relationship. Society has taken away the boundaries
- purpose for our living is LOVE
- Zacharaias' daughter was having a particularly harried day and said she was losing her mind. Her 6 year old son, replied, Mommy, whatever you do, don't lose your heart, because I'm in there.
- Loving, Kindness, HOPE
- Jesus rose from the dead
- first testamony was in the mouth of women
- justice eternity
- gospel is awhold way of seeing things
Additonal
quotes from David Berlinski in his book, The Devil's Delusion:
"No
scientific theory touches on the mysteries that the religious
tradition addresses. A man asking why his days are short and full of
suffering is not disposed to turn to algebraic quantum field theory
for the answer. The answers that prominent scientific figures have
offered are remarkable in their shallowness."
"What
Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe and what the
Gestapo did not believe and what the NKVD did not believe and what
the commissars, functionaries, swaggering executioners, Nazi doctors,
Communist Party theoreticians, intellectuals, Brown Shirts, Black
Shirts, gauleiters, and a thousand party hacks did not believe was
that God was watching what they were doing. And as far as we can
tell, very few of those carrying out the horrors of the twentieth
century worried overmuch that God was watching what they were doing
either. That is, after all, the meaning of a secular society."
"Just
who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire,
high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b,
heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder,
cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles ,
military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was
not the Vatican."
"The
advent of militant atheism marks a reaction—a lurid but natural
reaction—to the violence of the Islamic world."
