#12500 Can God Create Evil? Homeopathy and Religious Freedom - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Can God create evil?” This question opens a discussion on the nature of God and the existence of evil, alongside intriguing topics such as the implications of homeopathic medicine and the relationship between the 4th Lateran Council and Vatican II regarding religious freedom. Other questions include the ethics of AI-generated music and interpretations of Job 2:10.

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Questions Covered:

00:59 – The bible says there will be more people around the throne of God then there are grains of sand or dust or stars. My theory is that God can’t stop creating and continues to create humans everywhere. What are your thoughts on that theory?
15:15 – Is homeopathic medicine from God?
29:26 – Is there a conflict between the 4th Lateran Council and Vatican 2 Lateran promoting expelling heretics and Vatican 2 promoting religious freedom and being free from coercion?
37:11 – Is it ethical to make AI music and share it?
45:40 – Job 2:10. Are we supposed to assume that God creates evil? Is that how Job understood it?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back. Catholic Answers live. I am Cy Kellett, your host. Jimmy Aiken is our guest,
0:35.8	and we have a YouTube department here,
0:38.5	and they're like, second hour, get right to the question.
0:41.4	So I'm going to do that, Jimmy.
0:42.4	I'm going to get right to a question.
0:43.5	Okay.
0:44.8	And then I can ease up a little after that, but I've got to get right to the question.
0:48.8	Todd in Kansas City, Missouri, listening on 92.9 FM.
0:52.9	Welcome, Todd.
0:53.8	Got a question for Jimmy.
0:57.4	Hey, I have a question. Another one I've ever asked is my wife. Okay. It's bothered me for a while.
1:05.1	Okay. When God spoke to Abraham, he said his descendants would number more than the dust or sand or the stars.
1:16.1	I don't think there has ever been that many humans ever created on earth in all of history.
1:22.5	And then in heaven, they said multitudes and multitudes and multitudes of people minister to God in front of his
1:29.2	throne.
1:32.0	There has never been that many people and never will be on this planet, I don't think.
1:37.6	So what I want to know is that maybe this is a weird world question.
1:43.9	Uh-huh.
1:44.4	Okay.
1:44.7	We never find the rest of the galaxies.
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