HOW COULD A GOOD GOD ALLOW EVIL AND SUFFERING? (3 OF 5)
by Josh Malone
Scripture: Genesis 50:15-21
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How Could a Good God Allow Evil and Suffering? (3 of 5)
Series: Big Questions and Big Answers
Josh Malone
Genesis 50:15-21
Big Questions and Big Answers- This is a series tackling some questions in regards to the Christian faith and many of which are what people would consider the more difficult ones. One thing I want us to learn though this series is that the Bible is not going to fall apart and God run away when questions are posed.
Today's question is ''How could a good God allow evil and suffering in the world.'' The thought is basically this... if God is really God and thus all powerful, sovereign and at the same time He is good then He would certainly put an end to all evil and suffering or never let it come to be in the fist place. So either he is good but not powerful enough to deal with it, or He is powerful but certainly not good, thus they say He must not exist.
People look at illnesses like Alzeihmer's that my granddad suffered from before dying, and they ask why? I remember as a child being in the back of my parents 1980 Toyota Corolla lying in the back seat as we sped away from a hurricane headed for the coast when we were on vacation. I remember my parents picking me up from my dad's parents house when I was 12 and telling my granddad had died after suffering with cancer the last years of his life. I remember sitting in a church basement with Kristi and others as a tornado ripped through Alabama in 2011, just missing our city but destroying nearby homes. I remember the tragedy of losing a friend in high school he simply was playing baseball with some kids and reached out and touched a light pole at the ball field only to electrocuted and to die at the age of 16. Life is full of examples. Suffering and evil are real.
The truth is we have all experienced evil and suffering. Timothy Keller says evil and suffering in the world is not evidence against God, it may be evidence for God.
Tim Keller- ''If you have a God great and transcend ...
Series: Big Questions and Big Answers
Josh Malone
Genesis 50:15-21
Big Questions and Big Answers- This is a series tackling some questions in regards to the Christian faith and many of which are what people would consider the more difficult ones. One thing I want us to learn though this series is that the Bible is not going to fall apart and God run away when questions are posed.
Today's question is ''How could a good God allow evil and suffering in the world.'' The thought is basically this... if God is really God and thus all powerful, sovereign and at the same time He is good then He would certainly put an end to all evil and suffering or never let it come to be in the fist place. So either he is good but not powerful enough to deal with it, or He is powerful but certainly not good, thus they say He must not exist.
People look at illnesses like Alzeihmer's that my granddad suffered from before dying, and they ask why? I remember as a child being in the back of my parents 1980 Toyota Corolla lying in the back seat as we sped away from a hurricane headed for the coast when we were on vacation. I remember my parents picking me up from my dad's parents house when I was 12 and telling my granddad had died after suffering with cancer the last years of his life. I remember sitting in a church basement with Kristi and others as a tornado ripped through Alabama in 2011, just missing our city but destroying nearby homes. I remember the tragedy of losing a friend in high school he simply was playing baseball with some kids and reached out and touched a light pole at the ball field only to electrocuted and to die at the age of 16. Life is full of examples. Suffering and evil are real.
The truth is we have all experienced evil and suffering. Timothy Keller says evil and suffering in the world is not evidence against God, it may be evidence for God.
Tim Keller- ''If you have a God great and transcend ...
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