Defeater Ethics: God’s Judgement
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Skeptics used to just doubt that hell existed. Today, skeptics question whether a good God would send people to hell. In this episode, Robert looks at the idea of God’s judgment and how Christians can show a skeptical world that God’s judgement is in fact good news.
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| 0:42.8 | Thank you for your support, and we hope you enjoyed this episode of every square inch. Greetings everyone. My name is Robert Cunningham. And last week we introduced a new series addressing what I am calling defeater ethics. I am not going to rehash that for us, but essentially what I |
| 1:12.8 | argued was that when it comes to objections to the Christian faith, defeater ethics have risen |
| 1:20.0 | to be as significant, if not more significant, than the classic Defeater beliefs. Defeater beliefs |
| 1:27.0 | are intellectual barriers to the Christian |
| 1:29.4 | faith. But I am suggesting that the barriers we now face are more ethical in nature. Either |
| 1:36.1 | our ethical beliefs, such as our sexual ethics, or our ethical failures, such as church abuse |
| 1:43.3 | scandals. These I'm calling defeater ethics because |
| 1:47.1 | they are ethical objections that make Christianity implausible to our culture, particularly |
| 1:53.5 | I said last week to our youth. Now, most of these are going to be problems people have with |
| 1:58.7 | Christians themselves. But there are a few |
| 2:01.7 | defeater ethics that I think are about the God Christians worship. I said in the introductory |
| 2:07.6 | podcast that people are not wrestling with the title of Tim Keller's famous apologetic book, |
| 2:12.7 | The Reason for God, as much as they are wrestling with the goodness of God. Now, a lot of their struggles with God's goodness are actually wrestling with the goodness of God. |
| 2:21.7 | Now, a lot of their struggles with God's goodness are actually struggles with the goodness of God's people that they then project upon our God, understandably so. |
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