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CC114: Why Pointless Suffering is Consistent with an All-loving God (Dr. Kirk MacGregor)

Capturing Christianity Podcast

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Moral Evil and Natural Evil Are Not the Same Thing to a God

A moral evil is the product of libertarian free will on the part of creatures. If i choose to rob a bank, then that's moral evil. I pick pree, i pick a pretty bad one. But if i wind up having to go to my psychiatrist because i'm ally having trouble sleeping at night, and there's that's not a moral choice on my part than that. That is m that's natural evil. Soce ly, if libertarian freedom is possible, then we've got to be in a world where natural, gratuitous evil is going to happen. Otherwise god would be moved into the universe, so to speak, and we would be powerless but to do exactly what god

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