Welcome, friends. This is the hashtag SDRS podcast from Stand to Reason.

And this first question, Greg, comes from Anonymous.

How would you respond to someone who thinks that someone who died saving the life of another shouldn't be punished with hell?

Truth is, seeing some of the Bondi heroes who died shielding others feels heavy.

And this is referring back to, for anyone who doesn't remember or miss this back in December, there was a shooting in Australia on Bondi Beat where some Islamic terrorists shot a, it was some sort of a Jewish festival on the beach there and killed people there. So what do you think about this question, Greg?

Well, it's in some ways it's hard to respond to because you countenance this amazing thing.

And the Bondi Beach thing was a lot of video footage related to it. And so you see a lot of

this carnage. You also see people tackling the

gunmen and disarming them and things like that. And I wasn't aware of people who had shielded

other people and then got killed themselves. But you don't want to give any of those actions the

short shrift.

These are magnificent manifestations of courage, bravery, and self-sacrifice.

No greater love is no man than this than he sacrificed his life for a friend.

And even if there weren't friends, Paul says that Romans 5, he says that even while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us,

and it was meant to manifest as a manifestation of God's love for us because it wasn't even

we were friends, we were hostile.

So when you have human beings that are in a similar circumstance, we have to, you know, take our hats off in homage to them for the thing that they did.

But that doesn't accomplish what some people thinks it might accomplish.

Because even though it's a great act of good, sometimes we have this idea in our mind that the act of good somehow outweighs any of the evil.

Who was the guy, the businessman, and the Third Reich who saved all those Jews, but he was kind of a...

Schindler?

Yeah, Oscar Schindler.

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