#12298 Why Create Us If We Can Choose Hell? Free Will, Evil, and Salvation - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Why create us if we can choose Hell?” This question opens a thought-provoking discussion on free will, evil, and salvation. The episode also explores how Jesus has written natural law on our hearts, the implications of the rebellion of Korah, and why God allows senseless evil in the world. Tune in for a deep dive into these critical topics.

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Questions Covered:

06:29 – Angels and humans were given free will. God doesn’t want us to go to Hell. Since he knows everything, why bother creating us if we were to choose Hell?
13:00 – If natural law has existed since the beginning of time, how has Jesus written the law on our hearts?
23:08 – Is the rebellion of Korah a foreshadowing of the Protestant rebellion?
33:10 – Why does God allow senseless evil, such as car accidents, natural disasters, etc. to kill his people, which seems to be something that would happen in a Deistic universe?
38:05 – What is a good answer to someone who says the church is not needed but only a relationship with Jesus?
42:30 – Protestant constantly say that there is one mediator. How would you respond to that claim?
46:54 – Lutherans say baptism forgives the sin from before and after your baptism. Why would that be incorrect?
51:16 – Aren’t we supposed to pray to God in Jesus name? We are not supposed to be praying to Jesus?

Explore the complex interplay of free will, evil, and salvation in this insightful discussion on why God allows choices that lead to Hell.

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Kathy Gans was live.
0:32.0	I'm Cy Kellett, your host.
0:34.4	Had a lot of fun talking with Bishop Bayrudey of the Melchite Diocese of the United States.
0:42.2	And I had like a million more questions to ask him. So we have to have him back on.
0:45.6	Like I didn't even get to, I wasn't even a quarter of the questions. I have written right
0:51.4	here on my notes, ask him who the most famous Melkite is, and I never
0:55.5	got to that question.
0:56.6	And now I'm regretting.
0:57.7	Like, there's got to be somebody.
0:58.6	He'll be like, I don't know, like Kim Kardashian or, I don't know, actually, who my
1:04.9	Melkite celebrities might be.
1:07.5	But I never even got to that question, Edgar.
1:10.1	But how fun and interesting
1:12.6	to get to hear about the Melkite Church here in the U.S. And now Dr. Carlo Bussard is here, and it's
1:20.4	asked me anything, but it's of the drop calls variety. People call on the phone, they wait, they
1:26.3	give us their question. We type the question in. That's what Edgar does. And then for one reason or another, they're not there when we go to the, to take their call. And we call that a dropped call. Some people claim that it's because the host presses the wrong button when he goes to the call and it accidentally
1:44.9	hangs up on them. This is a claim that we've heard. There's no science behind that, so I can't
1:49.8	verify that one way or the other. But we still want to get to the calls, and Dr. Broussard is always
1:55.6	gracious enough to do that. Dr. Carla Bursart, apologists here at Catholic Answers, author of a whole
1:59.5	bunch of books, including the saints pray for you, and the forthcoming baptism now saves you coming out this fall, actually coming out in September from Catholic Answers Press. Dr. Carla Bursar, thank you so much for doing this with us. Sorry, Kellett. Great to be with you, my friend. Thanks for having me. Did you get fun. Did you get to hear any of Bishop A. Rudy in the last hour? I did not. Only like literally the last two sentences he said, which was the blessing. Oh, well, you got that. Oh, so you showed up for the blessing. All right, well, that's good. I did get the blessing, yes. let's see if it's effective this hour.
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