Mailbag! When God Is Silent, Heaven Gets Confusing, and Mercy Feels Inconsistent

Curiously Kaitlyn

Phil Vischer

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How can we have a personal relationship with God, when we do all the talking? How can Christians talk honestly about heaven and the afterlife without oversimplifying or confusing people? And why does Scripture sometimes show God responding with judgment and other times with surprising mercy? Kaitlyn lets the grown ups have a turn asking their questions, and they don't disappoint! She tackle these questions and explores grief, repentance, mystery, and what it looks like to trust God's character when easy answers fall short.

0:00 - Theme Song

3:35 - Wanting to Hear From God

14:21 - Sponsor - Hiya Health - Go to https://www.hiyahealth.com/CURIOUSLY to receive 50% off your first order

16:31 - The Afterlife

21:50 - How Does God Respond to Evil?

34:22 - End Credits

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Curiously Caitlin, where we try to make theology make sense.
0:06.6	I don't know.
0:10.0	That doesn't make any sense.
0:14.3	Curiously, Kate, yeah.
0:19.9	Welcome back to Curiously, Caitlin. I am joined once again by producer Mike. Mike, how are you?
0:24.7	I'm great. How are you? I'm good. We're like in the full swing of things. I know. It's January.
0:30.2	It's January. We're living into the future right now. I know. So it's actually not January. It is a few
0:36.1	days before Christmas. We're so close to Christmas.
0:53.8	Uh-huh. But this episode's coming out on like the fifth or the sixth. So by the time people hear this, they would have had their Christmas. They've had their New Year's. The 12 days of Christmas is over. They're over. They're over. Right. They're over on the sixth or the fifth. So I think today, yeah. Exactly.
0:55.3	Like when people aren't hearing. Merry Christmas.
0:56.0	Well, no, no more.
0:56.8	It's over.
0:57.5	It's over.
0:58.0	It's over. They're over on the sixth or the fifth. I think today, yeah. Today. Like when people aren't hearing.
0:55.3	Merry Christmas.
0:56.0	Well, no, no more.
0:56.8	It's over.
0:57.5	It's over.
0:58.0	It's over.
0:58.6	Oh my goodness. Okay. Well, I guess we're, we're in boring ordinary time. No longer can you be happy. We are back to be boring. Yeah. But because this episode is coming out a few weeks from now, and we're trying to actually take a break over the holidays.
1:12.7	A good thing for people to do.
1:14.2	We thought we would take some mailbag questions. And so our audience, they've sent some in. This is mostly through Holy Post Plus. So if you're like, well, I want to submit a question. Yeah. Well, we will occasionally put out calls for questions for our Holy Post Plus subscribers. Can I, I'm going to do one thing. So get on Holy Post Plus. So get on Holy Post Plus. I'm going rogue. I have not gotten this approved by John or the marketing team or anything. But I'm doing this on Esau's podcast too. We're going to have a contest. If you want to sign up for Holy Post Plus, I will let you have 30% off. That's either if you sign it for a whole year, you get 30% off for your first year. If you just want to do a month, it's just 30% off your first month. Use code Caitlin. Actually, let's change it because nobody knows how to spell Caitlin. Curious. I'm going to set it up when we're done.
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