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It's gonna be fun when Romans chapter 8 if you've got your Bible go to Romans chapter 8

Here's a big idea our planet's broken. Hey, man. Anybody agree with me?

Have you seen the planet? There's nowhere you can go that's not broken

There's no one you can meet that's not broken everything's a total disaster. All right. I'm gonna close in parents in you home

Thanks for coming. There's no hope now actually the Bible is the only thing that tells us what's wrong and who's gonna make it right?

And the Bible says that when God was done with our world

It was good when he was done making our first parents Adam and Eve everything was very good

Now something has gone wrong and very wrong because well you've done some things that are bad and very bad and sin alone

It explains the problem that we have as a planet. It's the reason why there is death

It's the reason why there are what we would call natural disasters

It's the reason why there is suffering and grief and conflict and poverty and hatred and animosity

And ultimately apart from the Bible there is no understanding of the problem and there is no hope for a solution

So before we jump into Romans 8 let me give you the summary of options for what is wrong and how we should respond

With our broken planet. So let me summarize a lot of philosophy here

And this is called a problem of evil or the question is why is there evil and suffering?

Some would say well the reason that the world is so broken is that there is no God

So there's nobody gonna help us. There's nobody's gonna come to rescue us

We're just left to ourselves atheism leads to ultimately suicide. There are actually two

steps to atheism the first is punk rock you start as an atheist and then you become punk rock you get

Converse sneakers cigarettes tattoos and you write terrible songs about your father while you're drunk

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