How Then Shall We Live

Episode 2: How Can God Be Good?


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How can God be good if there is evil? We ask guest, Jackson Downey, to discuss his thoughts on the matter. Join us as we search scripture for the answer to this question.

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Authors/Works Mentioned:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brother’s Karamazov (Specifically The Grand Inquisitor)

Stephen Hawking : Theoretical Physicist

Thomas Robert Malthus : Mathmetician

Margaret Mead : Cultural Anthropologist

Jean Paul Sartre

 

Scriptures Referenced:

Genesis 3

Ezekiel 3:11

2 Peter 3:10

1 Timothy 2:1-6

Psalm 53:3

Luke 18:19

John 9

Psalm 34:8

Romans 8:18-21;23

Psalm 27:13-14

Isaiah 12:2

 

Timecodes:

00:01:45 Guest Introduction: Jackson Downey

00:11:40 Context for discussion God’s goodness and man’s evil.
00:21:10 Implications of the question.
00:24:50 All beliefs require faith.
00:26:30 Is it an Emotional Response? Or a logical question?
00:38:00 Altruism vs Determinism
00:53:00 Free Will
01:01:00 Moral Error (Who can say what God will do)
01:06:00 Natural Disasters
01:17:00 Final Thoughts

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