Today on Facebook I found a post made by an old friend. Basically,
in the post he shared a video that involved Ravi Zacharias during a Q & A.
A person in the audience asked Zacharias the question: what brings us to
believe or entitles us to believe that Christianity is the exclusive way to
truth? Zacharias initially establishes the use of a foundation grid which
includes origin, meaning, morality, and destiny to determine or reach his
answer. In other words, all four of the foregoing should be met in establishing
truth according to Zacharias. I am not going to say anything with relevance to my
opinion. I am simply sharing the video to let you decide on whether you think
his response is correct.
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Personally, I think this is a great response to the question by Zacharias, and also it is good Christian apologetics. I don’t think Ravi can prove that he is 100 percent accurate, and I cannot prove him to be right either. However, the response is undoubtedly based on a good method for arriving at truth. I think it's important to know and understand our own personal worldview, but to also to understand other worldviews well, as Ravi seems to do. This is especially so when we have any dialogue or interaction with others. After all, we are all human, fundamentally. Ravi quotes Jesus saying: "love your neighbor...." Jesus was, in part, quoting from Leviticus 19:18 when he said this. In fact, Jesus usually quoted the Hebrew Scriptures. The ability to understand each other, especially in the Abrahamic religions should not be too difficult if communication is founded in loving our neighbors. Ravi presents evidence of this possibility when he quotes the Syrian Islamic gentleman at the end of his response that was persuaded by him to ask the question of why Jesus died? Simply getting our neighbors that are of other worldviews to question their beliefs after having dialogue with us is a good step forward. Of course, one of the biggest problems in Christianity is the lack of ecumenism between and among us, often about petty doctrines alone. If we can't get along, how can we expect other faiths to even listen? Anyhow, feel free to comment below. Blessings!
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