Dr. Ravi Zacharias came and gave a lecture last Thursday here in Anchorage. It was an outstanding 2 hours...I need to re-listen to the CD just to absorb it all. As if the privilege of sitting for one of his lectures wasn't enough, we also had the wonderful pleasure of actually meeting him! God is GOOD! Dr. Zacharias is truly one of the most kind people I have ever met and there is absolutely no questioning his intelligence. He defends Christianity through intellect and critical thinking against the crushing tide of an increasingly hostile culture who believes Christianity is for the weak-minded, and he does it brilliantly! He is absolutely anointed in his ministry and I pray God continues to bless him.
I got this from his website...unsure if it is just an article, or an excerpt from his book The End of Reason. Either way - "In an attempt to escape what they call the contradiction between a good God and a world of evil, atheists try to dance around the reality of a moral law (and hence, a moral law giver) by introducing terms like 'evolutionary ethics'. The one who raises the question against God in effect plays God while denying He exists. Now one may wonder: why do you actually need a moral law giver if you have a moral law? The answer is because the questioner and the issue he or she questions always involve the essential value of a person. You can never talk of morality in abstraction. Persons are implicit to the question and the object of the question. In a nutshell, positing a moral law without a moral law giver would be equivalent to raising the question of evil without a questioner. So you cannot have a moral law unless the moral law itself is intrinsically woven into personhood, which means it demands an intrinsically worthy person if the moral law itself is valued. And that person can only be God."
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Hey Olivia, that's really neat!! I haven't read or listened to Ravi Zacharias much but I've heard he's really, really good. It's encouraging to know people are speaking boldly for Christ. Glad you got to hear him and meet him!
Here is what athiest Nietzsche said about Christianity and morality:
“…When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. … Christianity is a system, a consistently thought out and complete view of things. If one breaks out of it a fundamental idea, the belief in God, one thereby breaks the whole thing to pieces: one has nothing of any consequence left in one’s hands.
Christianity presupposes that man does not know, cannot know, what is good for him and what (is) evil: he believes in God, who alone knows. Christian morality is a command: its origin is transcendent; it is beyond all criticism, all right to criticism; it has truth only if God is truth—it stands and falls with the belief in God …” 1
1 Nietzsche, Fredrich Willhelm, R.J. Hollingdale, and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols; and, The anti-Christ, Penguin classics. London, England: Penguin Books, 1990. From the chapter: Expeditions of an Untimely Man. Pp. 80-81. Originally published in German in 1888.
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