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If God, why evil…? How can a loving God send people to Hell?

If God, why evil…? How can a loving God send people to Hell? What about those who have never heard of Jesus? Isn’t Jesus just a copy of pagan god myths? Hasn’t science disproven the Genesis story? What about all the other ‘gospels’ of Jesus? Isn’t the Old Testament God ruthless and cruel?

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If God, why evil…? How can a loving God send people to Hell?

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  1. If God, why evil…? How can a loving God send people to Hell? What about those who have never heard of Jesus? Isn’t Jesus just a copy of pagan god myths? Hasn’t science disproven the Genesis story? What about all the other ‘gospels’ of Jesus? Isn’t the Old Testament God ruthless and cruel? What’s wrong with gay marriage? Isn’t Christianity demeaning to women? How can there be only one way to God?

  2. If God, Why Evil? THE QUESTION: If an all-powerful and all-good God truly does exist, how do you explain all of the evil that exists in the world today? How can both exist…?

  3. If God were all powerful, He could destroy evil • If God were all good, He would want to destroy evil • But evil is not destroyed • Therefore, an all-powerful and all-good God does not exist • - J. S. Mill If God, Why Evil?

  4. What was the Number One objection people had to God when polled by George Barna for Lee Strobel’s book? If God, Why Evil? Why is there so much evil in the world?

  5. If God, Why Evil? My Story

  6. “My faith in God went up in smoke with my little sister in the furnaces of Auschwitz…” - Elie Wiesel If God, Why Evil?

  7. If God, Why Evil? • What is Evil? • Did God create Evil? • Where did Evil come from? • What kinds of Evil are there?

  8. If God, Why Evil? Evil is a privation or corruption that exists in something that was originally good and perfect - Plotinus

  9. If God, Why Evil? • Metaphysical Evil • Moral Evil • Natural Evil

  10. Satan • The fallen world • Punishment from God • Suffering from following Christ • Maturing from God If God, Why Evil?

  11. Satan • Job 1:10, Satan complains to God about the protection Job has: “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has?” • Paul was troubled by the lowering of this hedge of protection on himself –2 Cor. 12:7: “there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me” • 1 Thessalonians 2:18: “For we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, more than once—and yet Satan hindered us.” • 1 Peter 5:8: “Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” • In Rev. 2:10, Jesus tells the church in Smyrna: “Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days.” If God, Why Evil? Notice what question this verse answers… Is God in control of evil? According to the enemy, the answer is “Yes”… c.f. 2 Thes. 2:6-7

  12. The Fallen World “For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. “ - (Ro 8:19-22). If God, Why Evil?

  13. Punishment from God Hebrews 12:5-6: “and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him; For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives.”” If God, Why Evil?

  14. Suffering from Following Christ • Matthew 10:22: “You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.” • 2 Timothy 3:12: “Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” If God, Why Evil?

  15. Maturing Process used by God James 1:2-4: “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” If God, Why Evil?

  16. “If God has singled you out to be a special object of His grace you may expect Him to honor you with stricter discipline and greater suffering than less favored ones are called upon to endure.” • A. W. Tozer, The Ministry of the Night If God, Why Evil?

  17. If God were all powerful, He could destroy evil • If God were all good, He would want to destroy evil • But evil is not destroyed • Therefore, an all-powerful and all-good God does not exist • - J. S. Mill If God, Why Evil? yet

  18. If God, Why Evil? Relief

  19. “and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away. And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new. And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” Revelation 21:4-5 If God, Why Evil?

  20. If God, why evil…? How can a loving God send people to Hell? What about those who have never heard of Jesus? Isn’t Jesus just a copy of pagan god myths? Hasn’t science disproven the Genesis story? What about all the other ‘gospels’ of Jesus? Isn’t the Old Testament God ruthless and cruel? What’s wrong with gay marriage? Isn’t Christianity demeaning to women? How can there be only one way to God?

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