suffering: why doesn't god stop evil?
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Al Rycroft's slides from week 1 of Beyond BeliefTRANSCRIPT
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SUFFERING: why doesn’t GOD stop evil?
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SUFFERING: why doesn’t GOD stop evil?
• the intellectual problem• the experiential problem
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SUFFERING: everybody’s problem
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SUFFERING: a Christian response
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Suffering is very real – but not ‘natural’
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Suffering is very real – but not ‘natural’• It has a moral cause: it’s our fault
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Suffering is very real – but not ‘natural’• It has a moral cause: it’s our fault• It serves as a warning: we’ll all die
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Suffering is very real – but not ‘natural’• It has a moral cause: it’s our fault• It serves as a warning: we’ll all die• It can’t be simply ‘swept away’
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God has experienced and defeated evil
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God has experienced and defeated evil
• The uniqueness of the cross
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God has experienced and defeated evil
• The uniqueness of the cross• The glorious paradox of the cross
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God has experienced and defeated evil
• The uniqueness of the cross• The glorious paradox of the cross• God’s love displayed perfectly
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There is an eternal context• There is a broader purpose to suffering
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There is an eternal context• There is a broader purpose to suffering• Suffering is ultimately redeemed
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Our experience of suffering“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our
conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” (Lewis)
• Look around you• John Bunyan• Eric Irivuzumugabe
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