How Does God Answer Today’s Skeptics?

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Many of today’s skeptics ask questions that God himself has already addressed. Sometimes, we just need to hear how God responds to his critics.

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0:00.0	Did God just make me to punish me?
0:07.7	And why did He create me in the first place?
0:09.6	To what end?
0:11.4	Huge, massive questions like these arrive every day in the inbox from you, our friends
0:15.4	who are listening like this email from a podcast listener in New York City.
0:19.9	Here's his email.
0:20.9	It's a very heavy one.
0:21.9	I want to prepare you for that.
0:22.9	It's a heavy question.
0:23.9	He writes this.
0:24.9	Dear Pastor John, why did God create us?
0:28.4	I grew up in the Bible belt in my 20s.
0:30.4	I moved to New York City.
0:31.4	I've been here for over a decade and my beliefs have been challenged here.
0:35.4	The past couple of years, life has been hard, not only for me, but for some of my closest
0:38.9	friends.
0:40.4	Only a few times in my life have I been mad at God.
0:43.3	This past month, I was.
0:45.6	I think I know why He created us to serve and worship Him and to love others.
0:49.8	In New York City, I've met all sorts of people who reject God.
0:52.8	I've heard things such as, God enjoys seeing others suffer.
0:57.2	God isn't real because people suffer.
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