“Vivimos en un mundo que se desborda en maneras contradicentes de definir la «realidad principal»: los hechos de la naturaleza, del universo, si Dios existe, y cosas semejantes. Vivimos en una sociedad algunas veces hostil, donde los antagonistas echarán abajo nuestras creencias, si no son bien sólidas. Es más, cada uno tenemos preguntas que respondernos por nosotros mismos. Puede que usted no tenga las batallas que he compartido en el primer capítulo. Pudiera tener otras preguntas que quisiera hacer a Dios cara a cara. Pero comprometer su vida, hábitos, pensamientos, metas, prioridades, todo, a un cierto grupo de creencias sin primero hacer preguntas y recibir respuestas, es edificar su vida sobre un fundamento frágil. Piense en esto: El riesgo que toma con Dios es aun mayor que confiar su vida física a un curandero. Después de todo, Jesús insiste que Él es la única respuesta verdadera para todo el propósito de su vida y destino eterno. Algunos creyentes piensan que los no cristianos que cuestionan a Jesús son malos; y que los cristianos que piden explicaciones no son espirituales. Sin embargo, pienso que somos tontos en confiar en Dios a menos que podamos examinar y verificar totalmente sus afirmaciones.”
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Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias was born in India in 1946 and immigrated to Canada with his family twenty years later. While pursuing a career in business management, his interest in theology grew; subsequently, he pursued this study during his undergraduate education. He received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Well-versed in the disciplines of comparative religions, cults, and philosophy, he held the chair of Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary for three and a half years.
He has multiple other doctorates and degrees from a variety of colleges and seminaries.
For 35 years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University. He has addressed writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the president's cabinet and parliament in Peru, and military officers at the Lenin Military Academy and the Center for Geopolitical Strategy in Moscow. At the invitation of the President of Nigeria, he addressed delegates at the First Annual Prayer Breakfast for African Leaders held in Mozambique.
Dr. Zacharias has direct contact with key leaders, senators, congressmen, and governors who consult him on an ongoing basis. He has addressed the Florida Legislature and the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in Texas, and has twice spoken at the Annual Prayer Breakfast at the United Nations in New York, which marks the beginning of the UN General Assembly each year. As the 2008 Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer, he gave addresses at the White House, the Pentagon, and The Cannon House.
Commentator Chuck Colson referred to Zacharias as "the great apologist of our time."