{"id":6384,"date":"2014-09-01T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2022-09-25T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T00:36:51","slug":"podcast-51-dr-ravi-zacharias-on-the-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-51-dr-ravi-zacharias-on-the-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 51 \u2013 Dr. Ravi Zacharias on the Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3133\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6384-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities051.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities051.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities051.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities051.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=6384-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities051.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities051.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6385\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-the-answers.jpg\" alt=\"question the answers\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-the-answers.jpg 500w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-the-answers-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-the-answers-420x238.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-the-answers-460x260.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/question-the-answers-90x51.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><a title=\"Bio of Dr. Zacharias from his website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rzim.org\/about\/ravi-zacharias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dr. Ravi Zacharias<\/strong><\/a> is a popular, Indian-born, evangelical apologist, the author of many books and articles, a frequent public speaker, and a veteran of\u00a0Christian radio.<\/p>\n<p>Recently here at the trinities blog I received <strong>a reader question<\/strong> about\u00a0an answer Dr. Zacharias gave about the Trinity in a recent public talk. In this episode, I <strong>review and critically examine<\/strong> that answer, and a few other of his statements on the Trinity which can be found on youtube (links below).<\/p>\n<p>[spp-tweet tweet=&#8221;In the end, I find it<strong> hard to discern<\/strong> just what Dr. Zacharias thinks the Trinity doctrine is.&#8221;] Some of his statements seem to imply that the Trinity is a self, and others seem to imply that it is a group of three selves. I don&#8217;t find persuasive his argument that if God is perfect, then he must not be a single self. On the other hand, I find myself in <strong>agreement<\/strong> with him when he&#8217;s preaching in a biblical mode.<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this episode <a title=\"trinities episode 051 on youtube\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/bEHmmH-wJXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/rzimmedia.rzim.org\/assets\/downloads\/Report-of-Investigation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Update: Ravi Zacharias lived a double life and has now been thoroughly discredited as a Christian minister.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Ravi Zacharias International Ministries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rzim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ravi Zacharias International Ministries<\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Bio of Dr. Zacharias on his website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rzim.org\/about\/ravi-zacharias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bio<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"RZIM youtube channel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/rzimmedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">youtube channel<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"the first video discussed\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/c9gwoZNudCI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ravi Zacharias explains the Trinity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"the second video discussion - though not all parts were discussed\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GY-iXxb0pRQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ravi Zacharias Q &amp; A: The Contradiction of the Trinity and DesCartes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"third video discussed\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/J3VutFrZA5Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ravi On The Trinity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(The final sermon quoted here has been removed from all online video sites at the demand of\u00a0the church at which he preached.)<\/li>\n<li>My discussion of <strong>three-self vs. one-self<\/strong> Trinity theories is<a title=\"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Trinity\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/trinity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> free here<\/a> and available <a title=\"Trinity paperback\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/dale-tuggy\/trinity\/paperback\/product-21291220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in print form here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Preprint of my paper &#8220;<a title=\"Preprint of my paper\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/dale\/SinglePerfect.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the Possibility of a Single Perfect Self<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ravi Zacharias is a popular, Indian-born, evangelical apologist, the author of many books and articles, a frequent public speaker, and a veteran of\u00a0Christian radio. Recently here at the trinities blog I received a reader question about\u00a0an answer Dr. Zacharias gave about the Trinity in a recent public talk. In this episode, I review and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-51-dr-ravi-zacharias-on-the-trinity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">podcast 51 \u2013 Dr. Ravi Zacharias on the Trinity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,5,38,20,47,9,57,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-modalism","category-monotheism","category-mystery","category-papers","category-philosophy","category-podcast","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43975,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/43975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}