Hello!
My name is Omar, I am a youth leader at my church. I have come to read some of your articles, and a lot of them I can see what you see. But I read Ravi Zacharias view, and it troubled me. Yes he has degrees and many people love him, but does he have control over that ? A lot of people dislike him too. There was many people who hated Jesus, but there was also many who loved him, why is that a way of justifying someone?..
I would like to hear your thoughts on this. I have another question, can you please look up Guillermo Maldonado from King Jesus Ministry and tell me what you think about him ? Please and thank you. I anxiously await your response. God bless ??.
Concerns about Ravi Zacharias
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Paul Cohen and Victor Hafichuk
Re: Concerns about Ravi Zacharias
Hi Omar,
You say about Ravi Zacharias: “Yes he has degrees and many people love him, but does he have control over that ?”
Certainly he does; Ravi could renounce his religious degrees, even as the apostle Paul did his:
Philippians 3:3-8 MKJV
(3) For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;
(4) though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.
(5) I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was a Pharisee;
(6) concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.
(7) But whatever things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(8) But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ
On the other hand, Ravi doesn't have control because he hasn't been converted to Christ as was Paul. As a man-pleaser with the mark of the beast, Ravi has no choice but to call himself “Dr,” paying homage to his religious degree from a manmade institution - that which Paul counted as dung.
What do you do with your dung, Omar? Don't you flush it down the toilet?
If there are a lot of people who dislike Ravi (and we see no evidence of that on the net) why do they dislike him? Because he is a religious phony, or because he serves the Lord Jesus Christ? We say the former.
As for many people loving Jesus, apparently, you don't believe the Scriptures and haven't experienced the reality of which they speak.
Isaiah 53:1-3 ESV
(1) Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to Whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
(2) For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.
(3) He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Many of those who “loved” the Lord were calling for His death. Is Ravi suffering that kind of persecution? No. So, “don't judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24).
Guillermo Maldonado is the same old, same old falsehood we deal with extensively in False Teachers Exposed - just review any number of the listings and you'll find many similarities. They're all birds of a feather. Also, refer to Diabolical Doctrines and The True Marks of a Cult.
Paul and Victor
www.ThePathofTruth.com
You say about Ravi Zacharias: “Yes he has degrees and many people love him, but does he have control over that ?”
Certainly he does; Ravi could renounce his religious degrees, even as the apostle Paul did his:
Philippians 3:3-8 MKJV
(3) For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;
(4) though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.
(5) I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was a Pharisee;
(6) concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.
(7) But whatever things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(8) But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ
On the other hand, Ravi doesn't have control because he hasn't been converted to Christ as was Paul. As a man-pleaser with the mark of the beast, Ravi has no choice but to call himself “Dr,” paying homage to his religious degree from a manmade institution - that which Paul counted as dung.
What do you do with your dung, Omar? Don't you flush it down the toilet?
If there are a lot of people who dislike Ravi (and we see no evidence of that on the net) why do they dislike him? Because he is a religious phony, or because he serves the Lord Jesus Christ? We say the former.
As for many people loving Jesus, apparently, you don't believe the Scriptures and haven't experienced the reality of which they speak.
Isaiah 53:1-3 ESV
(1) Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to Whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
(2) For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.
(3) He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Many of those who “loved” the Lord were calling for His death. Is Ravi suffering that kind of persecution? No. So, “don't judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24).
Guillermo Maldonado is the same old, same old falsehood we deal with extensively in False Teachers Exposed - just review any number of the listings and you'll find many similarities. They're all birds of a feather. Also, refer to Diabolical Doctrines and The True Marks of a Cult.
Paul and Victor
www.ThePathofTruth.com