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#221 Big Questions for Tom from Children: why did God make mosquitos? why does this world suffer?! did God create hell? (replay)

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Jun 13, 2024
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ANECDOTE

Tom's Family

  • Tom Wright has four children and five grandchildren, soon to be six.
  • He jokes that grandkids are fun because "you get to give them back."
INSIGHT

Children's Questions

  • Children ask hard theological questions that adults often avoid.
  • Their questions challenge comfortable Western worldviews.
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Suffering and Creation

  • Modern comfort levels make suffering seem abnormal, unlike earlier eras.
  • God created a good world as a project for humans to develop, but sin disrupted it.
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