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Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis

John MacArthur - The Problem of Evil

Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis

Jonny Ardavanis

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5663 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis: Big Questions, Biblical Answers, is a series that seeks to provide biblical answers to some of the most prominent and fundamental questions regarding God, the Gospel, and the Bible.

In this episode Pastor John MacArthur from Grace Community Church will discuss the problem of evil.

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0:00.0

Okay, so one of the biggest objections to the Christian faith, Pastor John, is that if God is good, he's powerful, he's sovereign,

0:16.0

why does so much evil and suffering and pain exist in the world?

0:21.6

Yeah, when I used to do a lot of stuff with Larry King, that's where he would always go.

0:25.6

That was his agnostic rabbit hole.

0:28.6

He would go down that rabbit hole and stay there until the conversation was over.

0:32.6

That's where he hid because he said, if God is good, then why is there so much bad in the world?

0:40.7

And if God is all powerful, he would fix it.

0:42.6

So either he's not good or he's not powerful.

0:44.6

But the Bible says he's both good and powerful.

0:51.0

And so the answer to evil is simply the fact that it's designed by God to be allowed so that he can manifest his glory.

0:53.4

Everything is for his glory. If you go, starting in the

0:57.2

book of Genesis, you'll find a phrase for the sake of the name, for the sake of the name, for the sake of

1:01.8

the name. Just take a concordance sometime and look up that phrase for the sake of the name. It's all

1:06.3

over the Old Testament and it's all over the New Testament. Everything is for the sake of the name.

1:11.8

So why did God allow evil in order that he might put his glory on display? If there's no evil,

1:16.9

there's no sin, then there's no forgiveness, there's no grace, there's no mercy, there's no

1:20.6

compassion, there's no kindness, and God doesn't display that part of his glory. So ultimately it's all for his glory.

1:30.0

God allows evil, God does not cause evil.

1:32.9

He is absolutely holy, he cannot cause evil, but he allows it for the sake of his own glory.

1:39.7

And then of course in the light of evil, he redeems those who put their trust in him.

1:45.8

And that shows the ultimate glory.

1:48.1

That's the glory of his grace, as Paul calls it in Ephesians 1, which is the greatest expression

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