What Role Does Our Limited Knowledge and the Need for A Standard Play in the "Problem of Evil"?
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
J. Warner Wallace examines the classic problem of evil and offers a cumulative case response. In this final of four related broadcasts, J. Warner examines the role our limited, finite knowledge plays in inhibiting our ability to understand why God might allow evil. J. Warner also discusses the need for a righteous, objective standard of "good" by which we could judge something to be "evil". Is evil an exculpating evidence or does evil necessitate the existence of God? For more information about the cumulative case for the existence of God and the problem of evil, see J. Warner's book, God's Crime Scene.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity Broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective. |
| 0:07.5 | Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:12.7 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline. |
| 0:16.9 | For more information about Jim's work and the case for Christianity, please visit coldcasechristianity.com. |
| 0:23.3 | Now, here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:27.5 | Well, thanks for joining us again this week at Cold Case Christianity. |
| 0:30.4 | We're back here finishing our last segment on the problem of evil. |
| 0:35.4 | And if you've had a chance to join us in the past, you know we've been talking about all the attributes, |
| 0:42.1 | all the characteristics or considerations you have to keep in mind |
| 0:44.9 | when asking yourself, |
| 0:45.7 | why would God allow any particular act of evil to occur in the universe |
| 0:49.0 | if God is all loving and all powerful? |
| 0:52.9 | Wouldn't he try to stop evil? |
| 0:55.0 | And so we've been talking about that in steps, |
| 0:56.8 | because I think the case we have to make is built cumulatively. |
| 0:59.9 | So if you haven't had a chance to see how we've been building the case so far on seven considerations, |
| 1:05.9 | then I want you to go back, if you wouldn't mind, and look at our archive. |
| 1:09.1 | Now, the archive can be viewed for this most most quickly at the cold case christianity website just go back to our website |
| 1:16.6 | and you'll see there are a broadcast page there and we have an archive there it's also on our |
| 1:21.9 | youtube page there's a link at the youtube for the youtube page on the website as well the point is |
| 1:27.0 | you'll have a chance then to take a look |
| 1:28.6 | at some of the prior episodes to see how we're constructing this case, because we're going to jump in |
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