Defeater Ethics: Evil & Suffering, Part 2
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Our last episode focussed on the philosophy behind the morality of a God who could allow pain and suffering, but in Robert’s experience, people first arrive at this objection through personal circumstances rather than philosophical debate. In this episode, he takes a more “pastoral” approach to this topic in the hopes of showing doubters the goodness of our God.
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| 1:03.1 | Defeater Ethics, giving answers to ethical objections against the Christian faith. |
| 1:09.1 | This is the second part of a discussion I began last |
| 1:12.5 | week to the notoriously difficult problem of evil and suffering. I offered a philosophical response |
| 1:20.9 | that you can go back and listen to, but my conclusion was that philosophy is fine and good, but I don't think that's the real issue when |
| 1:30.1 | it comes to evil and suffering. I'm sure there are exceptions, but in my experience, this |
| 1:36.4 | objection always starts personal and ends philosophical, meaning we personally suffer or |
| 1:43.9 | those we love suffer, and then the fire of that |
| 1:48.3 | affliction causes us to question God, get angry at God, turn from God, perhaps renounce God, |
| 1:56.3 | and then we turn to philosophy to justify those emotions. |
| 2:10.1 | I'm sure there are exceptions, but in every story I've encountered, first comes the pain, then comes the philosophy, which I think is totally understandable. |
| 2:19.5 | And so having offered a philosophical response, let's turn now to the much more important pastoral response to the problem of evil and suffering. I hopefully demonstrated in last week's podcast that evil and suffering |
| 2:25.9 | is a much greater problem for the worldview of unbelief. Now let's turn to the problem it presents |
| 2:32.1 | for the religious life. We, too, obviously obviously have a problem here, and it comes down not necessarily to the existence of God, |
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