God is Good but can Allow Evil | Rapp Report Daily 0093 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Now I want to address what we started with yesterday because there's another way to address this issue when atheists say that there cannot be a
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- God in this world because there is evil in the world. Yesterday we saw that the fact that there's evil first requires good and good requires
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- God. It requires an absolute standard of morality. However, we want to look at this another way. Are these things mutually exclusive?
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- Could God be good and yet do things that the world would see as evil?
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- Or more importantly, could God be all good and all knowing and create a world where he allows evil to exist?
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- You see, any parent knows that when they're doing good to their child, their child often thinks it's evil and is upset and angry because they're not getting their way.
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- And I'm sorry, but many atheists are still children in their thinking because they still act this way like a spoiled child that thinks that God should submit to them, not them submit to God.
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- He's the authority. But the other thing is, is it mutually exclusive for God to be good and yet allow for evil?
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- Well no, he can allow for it even though he has other purposes that he has planned.
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- There are times even as parents that we may allow our children to get into some small bit of trouble so that they would learn a lesson for something greater.
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- Now the reality is, sometimes children want to rebel and even a good parent will allow a child to suffer a more severe consequence rather than protecting their child.
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- But in the case when it's an all holy, infinite holy God, that justice is eternal hell.
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