Dr. Paulson transitions into the final chapter of Luther's Outlaw God Volume 1. This time, he looks at 2 Thessalonians to address the issues of suffering and evil. Paulson, along with Scripture and the Lutheran confessions, teaches that God is patient with evil in this world so that he can come and rescue you with the precious blood of his Son.

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Dr. Paulson discusses human suffering. He demonstrates different flawed ways that suffering is utilized to purpose a meaning of life. He utilizes Scripture to show why suffering is not a "lesser good" but is something that God puts to an end in Christ.

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In this episode, Dr. Paulson and Caleb go back yet again and discuss the events of the book of Exodus. Paulson uses the crossing of the Red Sea to demonstrate what it looks like to receive and be delivered by God's promises and what it looks like to stand in direct opposition to those same promises. This helps show why Luther so frequently referenced Pharoh while debating Erasmus. 

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Dr. Paulson picks up the themes of monism and dualism again. This time, he directly demonstrates the issues with these two accounts of evil by going into Scripture. Paulson also discusses the sin against the Holy Spirit. 

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In this episode, Dr. Paulson outlines two more attempts at defining God and containing evil. He explains how monism and dualism attempt to account for sin. Paulson concludes with Luther that both approaches are void of the reality of the one true God because they cannot account for or describe God as he reveals himself in the Gospel.

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In this episode of The Outlaw God, Dr. Paulson outlines the issues with deism. He identifies how deism presents God as a mighty creator but attempts to get around the problem of evil by making God distant and inactive. Paulson demonstrates how deism promotes the problem of free will and rejects the plain text of Scripture. 

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Dr. Paulson outlines some of the major interpretive issues of modern Bible historians. He demonstrates how they reduce the Scripture down to moral lessons. He does this while showing that these patterns and problems are not new in the history of biblical interpretation but simply rebranded. 

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In this episode, Dr. Paulson talks about the significance of Christ's actual death and resurrection and its effect on how we view the "plain text" of Scripture. Paulson uses 1 Corinthians 15 as the grounds for discussing how the realities of our resurrection and salvation depend on the physical death and resurrection of a savior who entered human history for us.

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Paulson continues to outline interpretations of Biblical texts that reject the idea of plain sense meaning. In this episode, Paulson looks at Psalm 51 and addresses how David's proclamations and prayers have been moralized. He then presents a reading that does not interject a moral key or decoding. 

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In this episode, Dr. Paulson begins to outline what Luther means when he talks about the "plain text" of Scripture. Paulson shows how the plain text meaning works alongside doctrines like Sola Scriptura. He then talks about how Luther confronts Erasmus with the plain text.

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