We're dealing today with the problem of evil and that is the problem of bad things, that bad things happen in life and how this affects our faith in God.

Let's face it, really bad things happen. I mean bad things horrible things things that are hard to even think about let alone experience

There are times where in life in the world there's terrible abuse so there's there's parents who are

terribly abusive to their children there's the death of loved ones which is a

trauma that you have to go through to even know what that's really about

there's children who have bone cancer, who are

slowly perishing in the hospital, and their parents are praying and praying and

maybe some of them are getting healed healed but some of them are not.

There's tsunamis, there's natural disasters, there's earthquakes, there's famines, there's all

sorts of other things like this.

The world has a lot of bad stuff.

And so this leads you naturally to ask the question,

if God's good, why is there so much bad stuff

going on in the world.

Some people, they think that there is no God

because of this question.

They go, well, there is no God.

The God must not exist.

It's, they think it's impossible for God

to exist while evil things might be happening

somewhere in the universe. If there's evil happening anywhere it means that God

doesn't exist. Other people they still believe that God exists but because of this

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