| 0:00.0 | The question of Theodicy has been around for ages. |
| 0:04.0 | Why does God allow sin, evil, and suffering? |
| 0:09.0 | Christians have generally answered this question in one of two ways. |
| 0:13.0 | The Armenian or provisionist approach from non-Calvinist, |
| 0:18.0 | when asked the question, why evil, might say, because love is a supreme |
| 0:24.1 | ethic, and for true love and relationship, there must be free will, and a necessary result of freedom |
| 0:30.9 | is sin, evil, and suffering. On the other hand, the Calvinistic or reform tradition, when asked why evil, |
| 0:40.3 | might say something like, well, God decreed evil to demonstrate and magnify his power and glory. |
| 0:47.3 | We believe the major problem with the Calvinistic answer is that it seems to make God responsible for evil. One popular Calvinistic pastor, Dr. John |
| 0:57.4 | MacArthur, attempts to explain how God claims responsibility for evil existing while mocking |
| 1:03.7 | advocates of free will. Again and again, God takes full responsibility for the existence of evil unfolding in this world. |
| 1:17.4 | Now, at this point, panic strikes the heart of Armenians. |
| 1:23.9 | Their eyes roll back in their heads, they become short of breath, and they go into rapid heart rate. |
| 1:32.1 | Their palms become sweaty. |
| 1:36.6 | They were okay with evil exists, and they were okay with God exists. |
| 1:40.5 | They were even okay with God as sovereign. |
| 1:42.1 | As long as you limit his sovereign power or his |
| 1:47.0 | sovereign knowledge. They don't want to deny the power of God. They don't want to deny the |
| 1:52.6 | knowledge of God. They just want to limit that. The panic attack hits them because they just can't let God be held responsible for evil. |
| 2:04.9 | And they want to save God from a fate worse than death, being responsible for the existence |
| 2:11.1 | of evil in the world. |
| 2:13.5 | Now, how do they go about doing this? |
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