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The Lamb and the Führer If God, Why Suffering?
Ravi Zacharias listens in on an Vince Vitale shares an article adapted
imaginative post-suicide conversa- from the book he co-authored with
tion as Adolf Hitler meets Jesus Ravi Zacharias, Why Suffering?:
Christ and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Finding Meaning and Comfort
the afterlife. An excerpt from Ravi When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
Zacharias’s new graphic novel. (FaithWords: October 2014).
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14 Deep Questions
Clay Vessels
“We are living in an era when
Jill Carattini describes how apologetics is indispensable,” writes
what began as a church’s simple Ravi Zacharias, “but at the same
art workshop transformed not time, we need a Christian apologetic
only its communion sets but the that is not merely heard—it must
hearts and minds of their creators also be seen.”
and recipients.
The Lamb and
the Führer
By Ravi Zacharias
“I want to raise a generation
of young people, imperious,
relentless and cruel.” With these
words, Adolf Hitler spilled the
blood of millions of people, his
own as well as others, when he
set himself as a god in the minds
of his people. But nearly two
thousand years before him,
another walked this earth whose
name is symbolic of love, peace,
and life.
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The following is an excerpt from the graphic novel of The Lamb and the Führerby Ravi
Zacharias (Kingstone Media: June 2014). Artwork by Jeff Slemons. Used by permission.
s I traveled through the sites individual worth, supreme goodness,
of the carnage of the Second power, truth, peace, and life in Jesus
World War, I was reminded Christ. In the face of Bonhoeffer we
afresh of the horror and the see anguish, helplessness, and a will to
extent of human pain and change evil for good.
suffering inflicted on so many by It was not difficult to find Hitler’s
one man and those willing to follow him. own words of self-justification for his
The concentration camps, the Gestapo actions. It was not that difficult either to
offices, and the gas ovens still speak find Bonhoeffer’s words that described
today of the incalculable price that the soul struggle he faced. But what
was paid. Any words that try to describe would Jesus have said when ethics comes
it become dwarfed because the story is into conflict with an ethic that chose to
so monstrous. kill to stop the killing? That part was
There is no name today more harder, and it is in those words alone
synonymous with power, wickedness, that the huge reality of those issues can
and unprecedented violence than his. be grasped.
But nearly two thousand years before So enter with me into Hitler’s bunker
him, another walkedthis earth whose and listen in as the Führer, gun in hand, is
name is symbolic of love, peace, and life. about to end his life (synonymous in his
His was a name also associated with the mind with Germany itself), knowing that
spilling of blood—His own, shed for the his Third Reich did not last a thousand
sake of the world. He endured hell to years or bring a Final Solution, but in fact
open the way to heaven. What would a resulted in the destruction of his own
conversation between these two be like? country and much of Europe. How could
There were voices in Hitler’s day that good people have followed such an evil
tried to stop him. One was Dietrich man? What is the origin of such violence?
Bonhoeffer, a German pastor, who went How does blood recompense for blood?
so far as to be part of a plot to assassinate Listen as Jesus, Hitler, and Bonhoeffer
Hitler. Bonhoeffer believed that for the engage in a life-and-death discussion.
sake of the world, Hitler had to be It is my earnest hope that, in a
removed, and he paid for that conviction world now full of violence, the voice of
with his life. Jesus will be heard again calling men and
In this conversation that we imag- women to submit to His sacrifice so that
ine between Jesus and Hitler, Bonhoeffer we will not continue to sacrifice our own
joins in because he brings into focus the sons and daughters on the battlefields of
reality of the struggle that good men and human ego and ideological conflict.
women faced under national socialism.
Violence, racism, power, lies, death, Ravi Zacharias is founder and president
philosophy, evil are all given a face of Ravi Zacharias International
here. But then there is the face of love, Ministries in Atlanta, GA.
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