Rediscovering Jesus' truth in an age of mass-media marketability.
The author, from India, says that modern philosophy is repackaged Eastern
Mysticism, which in turn is secularism in religious terminology.
The goal of secularism is to give the world god, from a human seed.
It de-ifies humans with no need of God.
To begin, the laws of logic and reason must be understood, for there is no
change of idea, without knowing the mechanism that must be used to flip
the switch, from wrong thinking.
1) when we get get into a discussion, debate, or argument, we assume the
laws of logic, apply to reality. Statements of fact, correspond to reality.
You cannot deny the law of non-contradiction without proving it is true.
There are only a few laws of reality.
The logical flow of truth is presented by Ravi Zacharias is that there is
a) logically a first-cause and b) that Jesus Christ is the only logical one to fit that
logical necessity.
6:30 Hawking and Dawkins faux pas, and Freudian slips.
8:55 David Berlinski, an agnostic, responded to Richard Dawkins with "The Devil's Delusion"
that no secular atheist rationalization has given anything to humanity and is
woefully insufficient for man.
11:00 God is unique in His ability to understand and describe the human condition.
He knows us and accurately diagnoses our heart condition. Genesis 1-3 references.
"Sin redefined man as his/her own god, and broke us."
Certainty is gone, we are living with incredible uncertainty. Man is despairing hope,
it has been ripped from him/her. On a global scale, the BBC found that the
one thing that man feared, taking the place of poverty and starving, is now 'corruption.'
Man no longer knows what is good or where it is. Secular humanism has failed us,
David Berlinski, says, and the BBC reports.
We cannot self-reference our spiritual condition with any meaningful reality.
Hitler - "I want to raise a young generation devoid of a conscience, cruel, imperious, and relentless.
16:50 Do we want a generation devoid of a conscience? Secularization, can only give, and has only given
this kind of result.
Only the gospel gives forgiveness and provides hope against the hopelessness of man.
It is a desirable thing. It is the only religion and philosophy that provides conscience
and meaning for man. No other philosophy does.
20:53 the woman who had 5 shattered marriages given as an example of renewed conscience and
forgiveness.
When Oscar Wilde was dying, he asked for a priest. He wanted forgiveness and a restored conscience after living a life of
hedonism and self-indulgence.
23:00 First God provides an accurate diagnosis for our sin condition and corruption.
Second, He provides the cure that truly meets the need of that condition.
24:45 Until we receive His Son, we will continually be offering our sons and daughters
to the philosophy and hopelessness that we have embraced in place of Christianity.
The Cross is the remedy for humanity's malady.
26:00 Hope comes from Christ's resurrection from the dead. Matthew Paris, a militant atheist,
said his atheist views were put to complete shame when viewing Christian ministries in Malawi that
totally transformed the communities they existed beyond anything any secular humanist philanthropist was
able to do, shocking his atheist readership. Christianity is bringing a change to these areas that is real
and is good. And left to their own tribalism is no good either. Christianity smashes these problems.
Removing Christianity would leave Malawi to Nike, the witch doctors, and tyrants.
America's morality has been recognized by the world as the reason for her strength.
Without the transformation of the heart, there is no hope for mankind.
