Defeater Ethics: Evil & Suffering, Part 1
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
One of the most common barriers to the Christian faith is the idea that a God who loves us would let terrible things happen to us. How does the Christian reconcile what seems to be an irreconciable contradiction? In this episode, Robert focuses on the philosophy behind God’s morality and the kind of ideas that he would never communicate to someone who’s in the middle of a season of suffering (that’s for the next episode, which will focus more on the “pastoral” than the philosophical side of this topic).
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| 0:42.8 | Thank you for your support, and we hope you enjoyed this episode of Every Square Inch. We are in a series on Defeeder Ethics, |
| 1:06.0 | hoping to give honest answers to honest ethical objections to the Christian faith. I said last week that |
| 1:14.1 | most of the ethical concerns people have against Christianity are actually against Christians |
| 1:18.5 | themselves. We are admittedly poor representatives of the Jesus we follow, and therefore often |
| 1:25.2 | our failure to represent God well brings into question the goodness |
| 1:29.4 | of God for our neighbors. But I also said there are a couple of objections to the goodness of |
| 1:35.3 | God that are centered on God himself. For example, last week we discussed the judgment of God. |
| 1:42.4 | How can a God who judges be a good God? And you can go back and |
| 1:46.9 | listen to my answer to that one. But this week I want to pick up another one of these, and this is arguably |
| 1:52.8 | the biggest ethical objection people face when it comes to God, his goodness, even his existence. |
| 1:59.4 | I said that this series is not going to be your typical |
| 2:02.4 | apologetics series dealing with the classic intellectual objections to the Christian faith. |
| 2:08.8 | But I do think it is important to pick up one of those classic objections because this one |
| 2:15.5 | in particular does speak to the goodness of God. |
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