Ravi Zacharias - Addressing the Problem of Evil

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[007Product]

This guy is Sharp

[Zwemer100]

Some great thoughts

[unbelievablepwnage]

@hardcorpssfor They don't offer a defense for the problem of evil. They suggest that our very recognition of the problem of evil is in itself evidence of an objective moral framework. I guess you can call it an argument from evil. In at least this video, Ravi doesn't give an explanation for evil because, like I said, it wasn't the question. Also, I find Plantinga's and other's free will defense a good logical solution to the contradiction between an all good God and an evil world.

[depauw2004]

lol @ everyone who thinks god can be 'all-loving' while children starve to death every day

[IloveYOUviruses]

I think it's very easy to adress the problem of evil when you study the Bible (a MUST in this topic), the answer is very simple, a GOD judges like a GOD, yeah EPIC, His judgements against evil are terrible for the wicked and unrepented, if God were to judge all evil right NOW, what would be the fate of those who raised the question?

Now, is God evil for giving you LIFE and the GIFT of SALVATION? I dun think so

[hardcorpssfor]

@unbelievablepwnage well I've yet to see an apologist (Lewis, Plantinga, and now Zacharias) offer a legitimate defense for the problem of evil. I thought this might be it...I was wrong. My search continues.

[unbelievablepwnage]

@hardcorpssfor I think your problem is more with the title of the video rather than the question he is answering in the video.Remember, the question is how to present the gospel to someone who is experienceing pain.Since no one is exempt of this reality, Ravi simply gives a different and intellectually satisfying perspective (not understanding) of her pain that opens the door to Jesus.Finally, I wouldn't call Hume's argument a refutation as much as a (failed?) counter argument.

[hardcorpssfor]

He really didn't address the problem of evil...well just for a brief moment. His defense has been refuted as invalid for about 250 years by David Hume. He delivered quite nicely some moving anecdotes, but we all know that anecdotes are not arguments right?

[ogith]

@ogith

And then he ends it all by saying that only god is big enough to answer that question, making everything he said until then meaningless speculation.

I'm sorry, but I don't see how what he said either answers the questions or nullifies the facts of how much suffering happens in the world without any meaning to it. I don't see how its a good response to a god that turns a blind eye to third-world children with parasitic worms devouring their eyes from the inside out even as they starve.

[ogith]

Did I miss something here?

Because the term "Evil" is just a handy categorization for "suffering and that which bring it" that doesn't rely on either good or an ultimate example of such, and I might have missed it, but I fail to see how what he said in any way responds to the question as to why a loving entity would create or allow the formation of countless disease, make certain parts of the world significantly more inhospitable to human existence than others, and not deal with these issues?

[tlcambell]

@Jjboricua18 Thanks for the reference.