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In this episode of The Defenders Digest, rather than giving an apologetical response to the problem of evil, we discuss a potential emotional response to the question.
Transcript:
Good morning, defenders. Happy Monday. I'm just gonna go ahead and dive right into what I wanna talk about today. This isn't an apologetic response to this question, but I wanna give an emotional response to the problem of evil. If you want a larger response, if you want the apologetic response, I did create a 12 page ebook on this, called the problem with the problem of evil and that's available for download to members of the defender's academy. So if you wanna check that out, I'll put a link for that in the description. But what I wanna talk about today is more of an emotional response and kind of, I'm gonna walk you guys through a journey that I had as a young Christian in wrestling with it, because here's the truth of it. No matter who you are, whether you're a Christian or an atheist or a Buddhist or an agnostic or a Hindu, at some point you, you deal with some version of the problem of evil and maybe, maybe you become an nihilist as a response because you don't know what else to do, but you have to wrestle with it.
And it doesn't matter where you're born at what part of the world you're born in, or when you were born, you are going to face the problem evil. It's just a part of the human condition. The problem evil in the large sense is this question of why is there so much evil pain and suffering in the world? And in essence, that's true. In essence, there's an element where it's, it's true. That to be human is to suffer. That seems to be maybe,
Maybe something to the effect of a, of a fundamental truth that we all know that we all experience to live in this world is to suffer. But something else that we know is true is that as human beings, we have the capacity to rise above that suffering and to do something great and meaningful, and to maybe even reduce some of the suffering in the world and make a difference that matters. And that that's something that we know is true. And maybe part of the goal, maybe a universal goal is to be one of the people who make sure that there isn't unnecessary suffering in this world. Somehow, maybe that's a universal goal outside of Christianity, but maybe a that's a human desire. Maybe it's not. I don't know, but it's a very Christian desire. We see that in Christ too. We see the perfect man who lived the perfect life, sinless blameless, and we see him be punished for a crime that he did not commit. And he takes on undue suffering. And then he rises from the dead to overcome that suffering and tell us, I have overcame death and I did it for you.
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