If God loves us, why did he make things like black widows, mosquitos, wasps, and volcanos?
Curiously Kaitlyn
Phil Vischer
5 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Kaitlyn is joined this week by pastor Mike Kelsey to answer a very cute question…that is actually much bigger and deeper and harder than you might think. Did God make things like black widows, mosquitos, wasps, and volcanos? And if he did, why do they hurt us?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Curiously Caitlin, where we take a kid question about God, theology, or the Bible, and find a scholar to answer it. |
| 0:07.7 | This week we are tackling a series of questions about black widows and mosquitoes and volcanoes that is actually one very big question. |
| 0:17.6 | We look around at creation and we see such beautiful good things. mountain ranges and sunsets and magnificent creatures in the wild, but we also see animals that hurt us and natural disasters that wreak havoc on humans. |
| 0:30.6 | How is that possible? What of the world around us is as God intended it to be, and what is a result of sin? |
| 0:39.4 | And if some of it is a result of sin, why does God let that bad stuff happen to us? |
| 0:44.3 | Today we have a pastor to answer this question, because this question, like most theological |
| 0:48.6 | questions, if we're being honest, is not just an abstract academic question, it's a personal one. We want to understand how these |
| 0:57.4 | logical pieces can fit together. God loves us. God made everything. Things exist in the world |
| 1:02.5 | that hurt us. But we also experience pain and suffering and loss, and we want to call out to God. |
| 1:10.1 | Why? |
| 1:15.7 | Pastor Mike Kelsey won't give us a completely satisfactory answer, |
| 1:18.4 | but he will give us a lot to think about, |
| 1:20.9 | and a lot to praise God for. |
| 1:24.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:28.4 | That doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:29.8 | What? |
| 1:31.5 | Curelessly. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.1 | Pastor Mike Kelsey, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 1:41.8 | This is Pastor Mike Kelsey. |
| 1:46.7 | He is lead pastor at McLean Bible Church, husband to Ashley, and father of three. |
| 1:48.0 | Yes, good. |
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