Popular Post snowflake Posted May 26, 2020 Popular Post Posted May 26, 2020 Last week on May 19 we lost one of the great "Christian Thinkers and Apologists" Mr. Ravi Zacharias. He was one of the very few non-LDS speakers to present at the LDS tabernacle in 100 years. He was loved and will be missed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oFuTPdPMI 7
Robert F. Smith Posted May 26, 2020 Posted May 26, 2020 9 minutes ago, snowflake said: Last week on May 19 we lost one of the great "Christian Thinkers and Apologists" Mr. Ravi Zacharias. He was one of the very few non-LDS speakers to present at the LDS tabernacle in 100 years. He was loved and will be missed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oFuTPdPMI Yes, and I'd like to see more such non-LDS speakers there. Brigham Young allowed a formal debate between Orson Pratt and a Christian minister in the Tabernacle. And we have had Richard Mouw there as well. I'd like to see RC Bishop Robert Barron speak there sometime. 3
Bill “Papa” Lee Posted May 26, 2020 Posted May 26, 2020 2 hours ago, snowflake said: Last week on May 19 we lost one of the great "Christian Thinkers and Apologists" Mr. Ravi Zacharias. He was one of the very few non-LDS speakers to present at the LDS tabernacle in 100 years. He was loved and will be missed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oFuTPdPMI He was a wonderful Apologist, he was very articulate, and showed great respect when answering the call to speak before many, or almost any group, with whom he disagreed on issues of theology. He was also a very good man, who represented Christianity in such a way that we could only hope all would do, now and in the future. He like many others, such as, Dr. James Dobson, Reverend Moody, and many others who have been invited, and answered requests to speak at the Tabernacle, or Conference Center. It also speaks very well, of both the confidence, and the desire of Church Leadership, to allow others to address their beliefs in such a public way. Indeed making clear that we, individually and collectively, should live and practice the 13 Article of Faith, and the teachings of one of our first Apostles, The Apostle Paul. 2
snowflake Posted May 26, 2020 Author Posted May 26, 2020 Here is Ravi answering an atheist about free will.......
Stargazer Posted May 27, 2020 Posted May 27, 2020 20 hours ago, snowflake said: Here is Ravi answering an atheist about free will....... I thought that this guy's question was rather stupid. And it made me wonder just what kind of "scientist" he could be, and it did occur to me that he was a ringer or a plant. OMG, science has disproved the Bible has it? Groan. And then I finished the video and it turned out that the guy is a "computer scientist". Of course that says it all. Computer science is nothing like any kind of physical science. And I say that as an IT professional. It would be more accurate to call it "computer engineering." Computer "scientists" don't deal in natural laws -- they deal in human-engineered devices and theory. Most wouldn't know what a natural law is if one hit them in the face. Of course, an IT professional can also know something about natural/physical laws. But a lot of them are as ignorant of physics as your average bartender. Ravi's response was excellent, though it didn't address certain important aspects of the question. 4
Prof Posted May 31, 2020 Posted May 31, 2020 I listened to his radio show occasionally. I was always impressed with how well thought out his positions were as a well as the manner he presented them. 1
Navidad Posted May 31, 2020 Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) The great fundamentalist evangelist Dwight L Moody also preached twice in the tabernacle in the late 1800's. The Deseret News article reporting on his second sermon said there wasn't a dry eye among the thousands of LDS folks in attendance when he finished his sermon. I would love to find the texts of his two sermons. Rick Turley helped me find the newspaper clipping. I was privileged to be in attendance in the tabernacle when Rick gave a talk on the history of the building. He mentioned Moody's sermons in that talk. I also got to sing bass in "Come Come ye Saints" sitting in the choir loft right in front of the original wooden bass pipes. I couldn't hear for a week afterwards! Maybe some of you were in the same meeting? Ravi Zacharias was a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination and taught at their seminary in downstate New York. Back then I was a professor and pastor near there. Ravi was a gracious man and very close to my uncle who later became president of the C&MA denomination. Ravi died of cancer and my uncle died of a heart attack while playing tennis - something he dearly loved. Two giants of the C&MA denomination are now gone. It is a great loss to the Christian faith. Edited May 31, 2020 by Navidad 1
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