Why doesn’t God end Coronavirus and mend the world? Justin Brierley

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In a bonus mid-week episode Justin shares his own thoughts on why God doesn’t step in to stop ‘natural evils’ like coronavirus, plague and natural disasters. Read Justin’s blog on the subject: https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Why-doesn-t-God-stop-Coronavirus-and-mend-the-world For the book ‘Unbelievable? Why, after ten years of talking with atheists, I’m still a Christian’ https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Unbelievable-the-Book Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show and receive all the videos sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/ For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unbelievable with Justin Brielly.
0:14.9	Hello and welcome to a cheeky midweek bonus podcast edition of Unbelievable.
0:26.0	Bringing you just myself, no one else on today's podcast, but me, I'm afraid.
0:30.8	With a special talk I recorded for Spring Harvest at home, this was over the Easter period.
0:36.8	When normally Spring Harvest, the festival would be in full flow here in the UK,
0:40.8	because it wasn't, of course, due to coronavirus.
0:43.0	They asked all the speakers if possible to film, to record their material,
0:48.0	and that's what I did for them.
0:49.2	And to actually change one of the apologetics talks I was due to give to a coronavirus themed talk.
0:55.0	So that's what you're going to be hearing the audio off today, the audio from the video
0:58.8	that I made for Spring Harvest home on Why Doesn't God End Coronavirus and Men of the World.
1:04.6	You can find that video still over at the YouTube channel for Spring Harvest,
1:08.2	but we've also added it to the Unbelievable YouTube channel, so you can get it there as well.
1:12.8	If you'd like to watch it, hope you enjoy what I've got for you today,
1:17.3	and be interested in hearing your thoughts on it as well,
1:19.3	because the problem of evil and suffering is one that people approach in various different ways,
1:23.8	both Christian and non-Christians.
1:25.7	You can find my fuller thoughts on it in a chapter of my book, Unbelievable Why,
1:30.3	after 10 years of talking with Atheists, I'm still a Christian,
1:33.1	this if you like is the shorter version,
1:35.4	and specifically themed around the coronavirus pandemic.
1:39.2	I'll also bring a couple of responses I had to that talk after
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