I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything.

Tonight we're going to be talking about a subject we brought up a lot recently because First Peter deals with constantly

This subject we'll be dealing with is

Suffering evil bad experiences and, that sort of thing.

And I want to start before I get into this passage

by just explaining one thing that I think will help us

as we're dealing with the topic of

suffered. And that is that the answer of why is there evil or why is

got to allow evil or why is there... I think suffering is probably more accurate

term because some of these aren't necessarily

morally or just they're bad experiences, they're suffering.

But I think it helps us if we separate the answer into two different answers because one of them is an intellectual answer

and it's sort of answering the question of this, why is there,

and the other is the emotional answer.

Let me explain.

The intellectual answer is something along the lines of, well, God has an overall plan and he will bring good forth even from the bad that he allows to happen right now.

God's plan involves free will and allowing his creatures to have

free will, yet preventing all suffering is impossible. You can't have free will and yet not

all the consequences of that free will. And so that's the intellectual answer right

there are at least a couple of the components of that answer. Now the problem

here is that most people walk away completely unsatisfied because when they hear

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