Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

one of them is a theologian. Hello, friends. Well, I'm excited for this week's episode,

because we're talking about an issue that comes up frequently when we are discipling other people

about basic Christian doctrine and beliefs, and it's also something I had to wrestle with personally

in my own walk with Christ. When I was a beginning Christian, I was really struggling through

why God allowed certain things to happen to me, specifically, in my struggle with sexual sin,

from when I was 12 to my early 20s, I really wrestled with why God would allow certain things to

occur in my life that caused me to stumble on erotic novels and led to my addiction. And so I

questioned God's goodness and God's kindness and God's love while also wrestling through

is God truly sovereign. Like, why did he let this happen? If he is sovereign, isn't it his fault?

So all of those are theological questions that I was asking at 14, 15, 16 years old, and

there are questions that a lot of people are asking today in different areas and over different

issues in their lives. If you are listening to this, you have probably asked those questions,

and so I hope that as we look at God's character in this episode, you will learn something that is

helpful to you in that journey. So this episode is a part of a mini series. Each episode is based

on a chapter in my new book, Every Woman of Theologin. Know what you believe, live it confidently,

communicate it graciously. It comes out February 28th, and this is focused on chapter two,

which is the theology of God the Father. And so talking about this mean Old Testament God and

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