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Fr. Larry Richards is the founder and president of The Reason for our Hope Foundation, a non- profit organization dedicated to ”spreading the Good News” by educating others about Jesus Christ. His new homilies are posted each week.
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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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