The Patrick Madrid Show: July 25, 2023 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick answers listener questions about why is there suffering in the world, how to best start a youth club, is it a mortal sin to switch from a Catholic Church to Eastern Orthodoxy, and what are the moral dilemmas of IVF?
- Kirby (email) – Why do you think suffering exists?
- Joel - I have a Bible verse that I use to talk with Protestants; 1 Peter: 3:15. Is this a good one or should I use another?
- Martha - We were invited by parish to start a youth club. Do you have ideas of where we could start?
- Monica - Is it mortal sin to change from Catholic to Eastern Orthodoxy?
- Email – Question about the moral implications of In vitro fertilization (IVF)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on relevant radio. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome back. 888-914- 9149 is the number to call. |
| 0:25.5 | 888 9149. I got two notes from you, Kirby. By the way, they come directly to me. |
| 0:32.8 | So thank you. He doesn't list a station. So I think he's listening on the relevant radio app and i think you |
| 0:39.3 | might have been on hold um and i was about to go to you but who knows what happened in any case |
| 0:44.3 | here's your email kirby says regarding the most recent catholic abuse he's dealing with |
| 0:52.3 | the ex-jesuit, Father Rupnik. |
| 0:57.1 | He says, Patrick mentions praying to Jesus to fix the problems with the church. |
| 1:02.1 | I think he means, is it realistic to think that would be useful in any way in light of Jesus not doing anything about 10,000 children starving to death per day. |
| 1:13.4 | Please explain why you think suffering exists. |
| 1:15.9 | All right, two questions there. |
| 1:18.6 | This is part of the problem of evil, Kirby, and the problem of evil goes something like this. |
| 1:24.3 | You believe in God, and you believe that he is all powerful and all loving, |
| 1:29.9 | and yet evil exists. And evil takes two different forms. One would be natural evil, |
| 1:36.3 | cancer, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. And the other form of evil that we experience is moral evil, which is the result of free will |
| 1:47.0 | choices like murder and theft and things of that nature. So the direct causation of suffering |
| 1:54.6 | because of people's sinful activity versus the other kind of evil, which is not tied to a specific free will human action, |
| 2:02.8 | but rather it's just the order of nature, illnesses, car accidents, etc. So the way I explain |
| 2:12.2 | why I think suffering exists, which is a distinct question distinct from why isn't Jesus doing anything to save the 10,000 |
| 2:19.0 | children starving to death per day? And that leads to the earlier question is why do you pray |
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