Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Ravi on Materialism

Ravi Zacharias 

Three types of pride:
1. The pride of power: That which seeks autonomy in its absolute sense. 

2. The pride of knowledge: That which thinks it knows and does not need to be added unto. 

3. The pride of virtue: That which thinks it is so good that it does not need forgiveness or any imputed righteousness.

Any resistance to God can be manifest in one of those three areas. 

The same men who devised and built the concentration camps also listened to the music of Wagner. 

If man is the measure of all things, which Man?

Stalin and the example of the chicken

What is it about materialism that is attractive? The logical working out of materialism leads to the atrocities we have seen in Germany, Cambodia from John Paul Sartre. 

Man shall not live by bread alone up from every word that comes from the mouth of God. We are more than a stomach that needs to be filled. 

Jesus forgives sins first before healing people of their physical ailments because the spiritual takes precedence over the physical




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