If God Created Everything, Doesn’t That Mean He Created Evil?

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Stand to Reason

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Questions about whether God creating everything means he created evil too, and how a grief counselor can answer a question about whether God causes or allows death and sickness.

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0:00.0	This is the hashtag STR-Ask podcast from Stand to Reason starring Greg Kokel and Amy all.
0:21.3	Oh, man.
0:22.5	Okay.
0:22.9	I'll just let that one slide.
0:25.9	I know you hate that.
0:27.3	I know you hate it.
0:28.0	I'm sorry.
0:29.0	Okay.
0:30.4	We're going to start with a question from Hannah.
0:32.7	Okay.
0:33.7	My 10-year-old is witnessing to a friend at her school, and the friend said to her,
0:38.4	if God created everything, he must have created evil, too, right?
0:42.0	Like God made cancer, right?
0:44.0	She's unsure of how to answer her.
0:45.6	Could you help clarify this for both of us?
0:48.2	Resources for young apologetics.
0:50.7	Yeah.
0:52.4	This is a complex question and gets raised a lot of time by people who are very sharp and
1:01.2	aggressive. It turns out there's a kind of simple way of answering it. And the way I characterized
1:08.9	the nature of the fall in the story of reality is that the world got broken.
1:16.1	When God made the world, it was all very good.
1:20.6	And then human beings did something that broke a lot of things.
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