God is Good but can Allow Evil | Rapp Report Daily 0093 | Striving for Eternity

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God’s Goodness, Evil, and Divine Permission

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 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 God.

It requires an absolute standard of morality. However, we want to look at this another way. Are these things mutually exclusive? Could God be good and yet do things that the world would see as evil? Or more importantly, could God be all good and all knowing and create a world where he allows evil to exist?

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. 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.

He's the authority. But the other thing is, is it mutually exclusive for God to be good and yet allow for evil? Well no, he can allow for it even though he has other purposes that he has planned. 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.

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. But in the case when it's an all holy, infinite holy God, that justice is eternal hell.

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