Another Mass Shooting? Who is to blame?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the aftermath of yet another mass shooting Dr. Flowers tackles the differing theological ways to answer the problem of evil. Should we conclude that God brings about all henious evil for His own self-exaltation, as some theologians argue? Or, do you appeal to the free will defense like CS Lewis, William Lane Craig, Tim Keller, Ravi Zacharais and so many other theologians and apologists? Let's discuss...
A more thorough look at THEODICY here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xStGU11FDM
An Article on this topic: https://soteriology101.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/should-christians-express-indignation-against-gods-plan/
Does "Sovereign" mean determinism? Click here: https://soteriology101.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/saving-sovereignty/
Ephesians 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ymS1SzKr-M&t=987s
For more go to www.soteriology101.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Layton Flowers. I'm the director of apologetics for Texas Baptist, |
| 0:04.0 | and like many of you, I woke up to the tragic news of what happened in Las Vegas. |
| 0:08.0 | Good morning to all of you. We are tracking the massacre in Las Vegas. |
| 0:12.0 | At least 50 people have been killed. |
| 0:14.0 | 406 people taken to local hospitals after the gunman, identified as Stephen Paddock, |
| 0:19.0 | opened fire from the |
| 0:20.8 | 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel that 64 year old shot right into a crowd |
| 0:26.2 | that was enjoying a country music concert to LA County Sheriff's deputies are among |
| 0:31.2 | the people who have been shot one and more news is coming in as we speak |
| 0:36.5 | tragic and our prayers go out to the families and those who And more news is coming in as we speak. |
| 0:38.0 | Tragic. |
| 0:43.6 | And our prayers go out to the families and those who have been affected by this horrible tragedy. And it seems like in my 43 years of life, events like this are happening more regularly. |
| 0:50.3 | Maybe it's because of the 24-hour news cycles, maybe because we have a device in our hands that brings us this news all the time. |
| 0:56.6 | It just seems like things like this happen all too often. |
| 1:01.2 | And as theologians, especially here we grapple with hard issues, hard questions, the issue of theodicy. |
| 1:08.2 | Why do bad things happen? |
| 1:10.1 | Where's God and all of this in fact i i typed |
| 1:13.1 | in how christians should respond to this tragedy and several things came up usually desiring god is in |
| 1:19.1 | the top two or three within a search engine and um they're on their facebook page they're desiring god |
| 1:25.3 | they he actually just an hour ago it it looks like, posted this. Terror had |
| 1:30.2 | its day and night and it will strike again, but one day, never again. Mass shootings will not always |
| 1:35.0 | happen. Those who inflict the innocent and remain unrepentant will spend eternity wishing |
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