The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I have been assigned an easy question to answer.

I don't know how I'm going to fill the time.

I'm just going to give you the answer.

Why does God allow evil and suffering in the world?

This is a very, very important question.

This is a question that I will tell you on a personal

level, is the single question that my friend Larry King always goes back to as, you didn't

know about that, friendship, that he always goes back to to demonstrate why he cannot believe.

There are some agnostics, and that's usually a word thrown around as if it were noble,

but the Latin equivalent is ignoramus, just to put it in perspective.

But there are some people who are agnostic simply because they don't care to know.

There are some people who are agnostics and they can give you an apologetic defense of their

agnosticism no matter what you say they'll take you through a rational series of arguments

as to why they cannot believe.

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