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john i would prefer a world where god

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had the capacity to guard innocent

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people from harm

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and did it i wish i lived in that world

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i wish you lived in that world

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tragically we don't we live in a world

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where innocent people suffer

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illness and accident and crime and all

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sorts of other things

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given the reality of those things how do

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we understand them

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you either believe that god wants these

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things to happen because he's

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in control of the whole show and then

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you have to understand

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why is he doing this what are we being

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punished for what is the lesson he's

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trying to teach us

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or else as i prefer to believe to to

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choose to say that these happen for

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other reasons which are beyond god's

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power to prevent

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and that god is on our side how does my

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understanding of god sustain us

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because it says to people god is on your

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side

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god feels as bad about this as hurt by

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this as you do

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he's not punishing you you don't deserve

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it the key

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to surviving misfortune and tragedy is

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one's own self-esteem

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one's own sense that i am a good person

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this shouldn't be happening to me

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religion should not defend god and

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justify misfortune

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religion should bind the wounds of the

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bleeding human being

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and tell him that god loves him and does

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not want him to suffer

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okay dr geisler well i certainly agree

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with that i think that

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god is on our side god does love us he's

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manifested by creating us

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by sustaining us by giving us ear to

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breathe our

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heart beats within our bodies he gives

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us food every good thing in its season

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uh he's manifested his love in

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innumerable ways to us but what really

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comforts me is not simply

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that god loves me but that the god that

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loves me

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has the power to fulfill the desires of

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that love

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that he's not handcuffed by laws he's

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made he's not

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uh tongue-tied by the creation that

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surrounds him that god is in sovereign

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control over the world and that he can

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bring about exactly what his love

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desires to be brought about

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if i didn't have a kind of god who was

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both all-powerful and all-loving

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there would be no reason to be assured

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from his love because he might be so

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impotent that he couldn't accomplish any

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of his loving desires for me

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but norm i think the question becomes if

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god has the power to do these things out

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of his love

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why doesn't he why does the person die

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why does the accident happen why does

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the rapist

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mutilate the body of the young girl i

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think that's a good question

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as i see it there are two answers to

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that or two aspects of it to the bible

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one we're free

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and god gave us freedom and two is that

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this world is not the whole story

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if we assume that this life is the whole

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story

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then it seems unjust but if we assume

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there is a life

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after this and that god is not finished

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with us yet

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that he's going to resurrect the dead

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that there's going to be a day of

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reckoning of reward

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and punishment then of course it takes

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on entirely different color

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the bible says that jesus christ brought

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life and immortality to light through

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the gospel

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and what gives me hope as a believer is

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that jesus reversed the course of death

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he suffered for us

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and he brought us hope of an immortal

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life therefore

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you