If God, Why Evil? PT. 1

'I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST' by Frank Turek and Norman Geisler (www.ImpactApologetics.com).

C.S. Lewis was an Atheist once and he thought evil disproved God until he realized that evil actually pointed to God because evil pointed to good and you wouldn't know good unless you knew God. In fact, here's what Lewis said, 'My argument against God [when I was an atheist] was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?'

For a more complete treatment of the problem of evil see
Norman Geisler, BAKER ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS.
See also Peter Kreeft, MAKING SENSE OUT OF SUFFERING.

See PT. 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqQvk4zVB3c

Music:
Girls Longer Hair - Craig D'Andrea
There There (The Boney King of Nobody) - Radiohead
I Will (No Man's Land) - Radiohead

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www.ImpactApologetics.com

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[TheTruman777]

although i enjoyed this video and it made very good points against atheism, it clearly used unbilical ideas to support it's overall point. There is nowhere that i know of in scipture that talks of "degrees of punishment in hell"! I'd like to be corrected on this point if there indeed exist scriptures that say that there is degrees of punishment in hell.

[4EverLoveAmbassador]

I couldn't quite find where it talks about the 'degrees of punishment in hell.' Would you mind showing me a point in the video where it talks of this??

Thanks :]

[Jarb2104]

Just one last thing, change the word evil for the word good, the word good for the word evil, in all the places in the video, and give me a call in the morning...

[Jarb2104]

P.S.: Now at 1:40, "This fallen world will not be righted until Christ returns".

How come he can come and make the world right? Will he stop us from being free of our choices? Will he take our free will to make the world right? I thought evil had to exists, what about the humans that are going to be born after the coming of Christ?

If you can't see how wrong those arguments are with this, you will be blind for ever.

[Jarb2104]

I stopped at 1:20, "if God were to do away with evil , then he would have to do away with free choice".

Not true, we can still have free choice and not do evil, or how was suppose to be the garden of eden before the original sin?

We can choose to eat apple or pine apple pie, we can choose to stay in bed one more hour after we wake up.

If God is all powerful he can get erase evil from human life and we would still be free to do what we want, create art, read books, have families.

God is evil.

[SwordofSpirit1]

@CellphoneTL Said Satan.....

[CellphoneTL]

@SwordofSpirit1 I'm a Christian...

[SwordofSpirit1]

@CellphoneTL We need to make sure that we are in covenant with God in Jesus by remaining pure and reconciled to Him so that we can work for Him now, more like it. Is this too religious sounding for you?

[CellphoneTL]

@SwordofSpirit1 yeah. Jesus said repeatedly that we will suffer for his namesake. But we need to put our focus on God and on Heaven.

[SwordofSpirit1]

God does not willingly afflict His own children. Wicked populaces, yes, they evoke His indignation and wrath. But He is tender, loving, and merciful to those whom seek Him and remain reconciled to Him. If one of His chosen is enduring circumstances, He is simply chastening them, and making them worthy of entrance into His Holy Kingdom. For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. —Psalm 94: 14

[SwordofSpirit1]

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. —Hebrews 12: 10

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? —Ezekiel 33: 11

[SwordofSpirit1]

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. 7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. —Psalm 130:5—8