RZIM: Just a Thought Broadcasts

Ravi Zacharias relates a conversation that he had with a professor at a prestigious university who though he started out very conservative in his beliefs, became very liberal in college and jettisoned the idea of moral absolutes. He told Ravi that in his later years he has become more convinced that there are transcending values.

Quoting from William Blake's poem, Ravi Zacharias makes a correlation to Blake's words and the erroneous way in which we can view things in this day and age of sound bites and short video clips called the news.

Ravi Zacharias examines the reason why the West has prospered and unique individuals have stood up so resolutely against evil in today's Thought.

Because Adam and Eve broke God's one law in the garden of eden, Moses had to give over 600 laws for the nation of Israel. Ravi Zacharias describes how even today as a result of the condition of the human heart there are laws in abundance.

Citing a famous phrase from the Declaration of Independence Ravi Zacharias explains that this statement would only be possible coming from a Judeo-Christian worldview.

Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, said that if in the 19th century we find out God is dead then two things will happen in the 20th century. Listen today and find out what he predicted and what eventually happened in his own life.

Dealing with the topic of eternal life, Ravi Zacharias describes the contrast of a Muslim adherent's confidence vs. that of a Christian relying on the payment for sins offered by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Ravi Zacharias relates a conversation that he had with a professor at a prestigious university who though he started out very conservative in his beliefs, became very liberal in college, jettisoning any absolutes. He told Ravi that in his later years he has become more convinced that Jesus Christ may be the real answer after all.

Ravi Zacharias describes how the skeptics of the existence of God deny miracles as an exception to the natural law, then on the topic of moral absolutes they choose to deny that also but with a completely opposite strategy. Find out what he means as he explains this concept on today's Just A Thought.

Laws are created to force people to value the life and freedom of other individuals, but the intrinsic dignity of human life can only truly come from God, the creator, who gives us essential worth.