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Thanks for joining us at cold case Christianity. I am Jay Warner Wallace.

Today we're going to talk about something that cult case Christianity, I am J Warner Wallace.

Today we're going to talk about something

that is pretty common in terms of objections

or concerns that even Christians have

related to their belief in Christianity, related to their faith in Christ.

And it's, when I give you the term, the hiddenness of God, you may not kind of sense right away what that even means,

and lots of people don't. But if I pitched it this way, aren't there times

as a believer when you wonder why it is God is not more obvious, why it is that he is not more present, why you can't hear his voice more clearly,

why he's hidden at all.

Are there times when you wonder why this is true in the nature of the entire world in which

we live? Where it seems as though God could step in more publicly to defend either his honor, to defend the truth of the Christian worldview, to defend those who are helpless.

As a matter of fact, if you think about the hiddenness of God is in many ways at the root of some of the

classic objections related to the problem of evil. Why would an all-loving, all-powerful

God allow bad things to happen in the world in which we live. Kind of connected to that is why wouldn't

God step in and stop it? And if he did, of course, he wouldn't be so hidden. So really the idea

the hiddenness of God is really at the underbelly of a lot of the problem of evil.

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