What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce, and today's episode by the title of the video or the podcast, I really wanted to go over this essential question to the Christian faith, because I know nonbelievers and Christians always bring this up. And it is, if God is so good, then why does evil and suffering exist in the world? We're going to dive into it. But before we do, I wanted to talk about the shirt that I'm wearing.

For a limited time, all in October,

we have these breast cancer awareness.

I love Jesus shirts.

Breast cancer is something that has plagued my hometown for a long time.

I remember going to these breast cancer events,

and it just would break my heart because I've known so many people

or met so many people that have struggled with breast cancer.

So we want to make these shirts in honor of breast cancer awareness month.

So you can go get them at Jesus in the street.com.

We have white and pink.

Go support us, Jesus in the street.com.

But, I mean, as we know, cancer is evil.

It's suffering.

So if God is so good, then why does evil and suffering exist? I really want to talk

about this because whenever this question gets brought up, there's like three similar responses

that happened. You have the first response where people say, oh, it's just a psychological thing in

your mind, evil and suffering is, so you can get over it in your mind. Some people say, well, God's just

not all powerful. I mean, they say he is, but he's not, and that's why suffering exists. That's in direct contradiction to the Bible. Then you have another thing where people say, well, God, I mean, he must not be that good. He must just be a distant father that created everything. He's distant from his creation. But then, that's in direct contradiction to the Bible, whereas other religions like Islam and Buddhism might endorse that idea in some way, shape, or form.

That's in total contradiction to the Bible. But people try to run away from the fact that evil exists.

But before I answer the question, we have to acknowledge that evil is real. It's far worse than we realize.

I mean, it's an invader. It's a parasite.

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