How Can a Good God Allow Evil? Does Life Have Meaning? - Dr. Ravi Zacharias

Dr. Ravi Zacharias
Best Selling Author, Radio Host, visiting Professor at Wycliffe Hall of Oxford
Founder of RZIM, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries
http://www.rzim.org/

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[ikawpipa]

Dawkins will surely avoid this guy like Craig.

[ganekelioque]

@macmarine I dont want you to think im forcing things on you, im just asking questions to try and make you think, dont be angry. ill be happy to leave you alone but dont think atheists and non believers are the only people in the world with open minds. And i dont believe in God because i want a warm feeling, i believe in God because i know he loves me and that i love him.

[fletchdrebon]

@LaHomEnt That's a good question. I think it boils down to faith that He is just (or a lack of belief that He is just). I think this question is the question that the world struggles with in regards to Christianity..."Why does God allow evil?". Ravi's answer is amazing and IMO undeniably logical.

[Haswellarc]

@ikawpipa Because they are not worth his time.

[TheJohnmark481]

@LaHomEnt I believe that we can ask life's question in heaven when we will be with God. :))

[GOOdGuyGreg1]

i dont like how ravi claims that there can be no moral code without a moral law giver. that is wrong. you do not need religion to distinguish right and wrong. how can i define right and wrong? by a) empathy and b) the common interest to do to others what you would have them do to you. no one religion can claim all morality. societies existed before christianity and judaism. where then did they get their moral codes to coexist without the true path to god?

[TheJacobMcAuley]

@FrankieSayRelaxxx1 As far as philosophical terms are concerned, invalid denotes that the conclusion does not follow from the premises. The conclusion follows from the premise, so it is a valid argument.

The issue is, his two assertions, as you say, are not proven. That would make that argument valid, yet false.

In all fairness, in his scenario (i.e. speaking to a person who posed the query), the premises should be agreed upon. Whether or not the premises are true is another question.

[thnguyen24]

@kriss299 actually, i know some Christian science and engineering professors.

[LaHomEnt]

if this question is difficult, why God hasn't answered it himself? Doesn't He bother? Does He like speculations?

[kriss299]

Too stupid for science? Try religion.

[edadan2009]

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." (Is 45:7, KJV)

"Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6, KJV)

[Youngsamsonful]

The last time I asked God this question, the answer I received was this:

"Do you have faith in me?". I said "yes, why?". And then He said "Why then do you doubt that these people are heaping upon themselves their just punishments?".

I kept quiet and realized that God is watching and waiting for all this to end, to send evil-DO-ers to fiery Hell for eternity.