RZIM: Just a Thought Broadcasts

Ravi Zacharias states when "you look at a jumbo jet and say it didn't happen because of a tornado in a junk yard" it is because a person naturally expects an author or inventor behind a produced or manufactured item. In today's Thought he explains that with this thinking it logically follows that when observing a complex universe, a creator should be assumed.

Even the Big Bang theory of evolution acknowledges that there was something behind the big bang to set it in motion. Ravi Zacharias describes how the complexity and specificity of things points to a creator in today's Thought.

Post Modernity makes the claim that there is no truth no meaning and no certainty, and that all claims to spoken or written truth are subject to interpretation by the receiver. On today's program Ravi Zacharias traces this argument back to the Garden of Eden when God speaks the first truth and man attempts to change the meaning of what He said.

The message of Jesus from his birth to his sacrificial death on the cross provides answers to the many questions in life. Ravi Zacharias contrasts the christian message with the atheist and desribes how not only does atheism not supply answers it can't even justify asking the questions.

Ravi Zacharias tells the story of a starving young woman at Buchenwald concentration camp who snuck out early of the barracks to see if she could find worms to eat. She senses that she is being watched and turns to see a person that she doesn't recognize. Listen to today's program as Ravi tells who it was and how it demonstrates the intrinsic worth of each individual human being.

Many people point to the crusades and other wars fought in the name of religion as a reason not to believe. In today's Thought Ravi Zacharias counters this thinking with the flip side of this argument, have those same people examined the blood that was spilled in the name of atheism.

Ravi Zacharias quotes Viktor Frankel, a holocaust survivor, who believed that when you reduce man to a mere combination of reflexes and remove any kind of divine purpose then the gas chambers of the holocaust are easily envisioned. Ravi adds to this thought that the nihilistic philosophy of the day was as much the cause of the holocaust as Hitler and the Third Reich.

Hitler developed his strategy for world domination from the theories of Darwinistic evolution where the stronger are meant to overcome the weaker. From this history lesson the assumption can be made, if Hitler, who was educated in the current philosophy of his day, used education to reinforce his evil intent then education is not the redeemer of the human heart. On today's Just a Thought Ravi Zacharias describes the only way to regenerate the human heart.

Quoting from the Minnesota Crime Commission regarding the reality of the human heart, Ravi Zacharias points to the Commission's report stating that children without intervention have a natural bent toward criminal behavior. One answer given for this reality is that if children are well educated they will naturally move toward good moral behavior. Listen to today's program where Ravi describes what an educated child is capable of.

In Ezekiel's day the people implored the prophet to ask God to speak to them. God's answer to Ezekiel was that until the people obeyed what He had already revealed to them, He would not speak to them. Today on Just A Thought Ravi Zacharias describes why this is relevant to believers today who are waiting to hear from God.