#233 Free Will and the Problem of Evil (Classic)

Ask NT Wright Anything

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Tackling one of the biggest questions of all time, the problem of evil and suffering, in today's episode an atheist listener asks a question about free will and the problem of evil. Will it be possible for there to be another ‘fall’ in the new creation? And the hosts of the Libertarian Christian Podcast have some questions for Tom about living as Christians in today’s world. Originally Aired: Sept 2019 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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1:06.0	Welcome to today's replay of Ask NTRIATE Anything.
1:10.7	Welcome back to another edition of the Ask NTRIATE Anything podcast. We throw all kinds of things at you every couple of weeks Tom. And today is no different. We're doing probably one of the biggest questions that has existed since time immemorial, a problem of evil and suffering. I'm not expecting you to solve it necessarily today, but it is posed in some interesting ways today.
1:30.9	I suppose whenever we come to do a podcast and questions and you're there as the person answering them,
1:36.3	I suppose it's always with the caveat that there are some things that don't really have very neat packaged answers, do they?
1:43.4	And we can only give people ways
1:44.7	to try and think through things. And everyone's different as to how they're ultimately going
1:48.3	to resolve some of these big questions in their own mind. Sure. Yeah, that's undoubtedly true. And
1:53.6	the question of the problem of evil is the archetypal one. And I've come to the view that even though we don't have a good
2:03.8	answer to the way the question is normally posed or has been in the last 200 years, 300 years
2:08.3	anyway, we do have a very good answer for why we should expect that problem to come up in the
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