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He never lead people, but felt he knew what everyone should be doing. He never performed a scientific test of any of his theories, yet his followers call them scientific. His life's ambitions were to destroy Capitalism and Dethrone God. All he accomplished was to enslave millions of God's children. So, Marx was indeed a villain and the only ones who would contest that are the people who never lived under Marxism. PS - When Marx died only 12 people attended his funeral.

Karl Marx was a degenerate layabout whose ideology has led to the deaths of millions if not billions of people. Shut up, fascism for morons

I wouldn’t put Marx as evil in the category of Hitler but he was definitely a man of poor character 1. His slow writing and working ethic, while living off the money of others show his laziness. 2. Him being unfaithful to his wife and failure to take care of his family shows while criticizing capitalism of turning the family into an economic relationship not a relational one is ironic. 3. His poor character doesn’t discredit his work, but his work was poorly viewed amongst his peers and while one can say Marx didn’t cause the horrors of communism, you can say that it was the Russian Revolution 1917 that made Marx popular.

CHRISTIAN universalism is NOT heresy - those who tell you so are LIARS and FALSE TEACHERS. If you have or know a congregation that disagrees, I will HAPPILY debate them and SO CAN YOU by copying and pasting this list: Scriptural Evidence of the Victorious Gospel 1) Rev 21:3-6 2) 2 Cor 5: 13-21 3) 1 Cor 15:20-28;50-58 4) Acts 3:21; 3:17-26 5) 1 Tim 4:10-11 6) Rom 8:28-39 7) John 5:21-30; 12:44-47 8) Luke 13:23-30; 12:57-59 9) Luke 21:25-28; 33 10) Luke 15 11) Gen 12:3 12) John 8:31-37 13) John 9:5 14) John 15:16-27 15) John 12:23-33 16) Titus 2:11-15 17) Romans 5:12-21 18) Jonah 2:3-11 19) Hosea 6:6; 11:8-11 20) Matthew 17:11-12 21) Ezek 2:1-10; Mt 15:21-28 22) Matt 11:26-27; 20:28 23) 1 Tim 2:6-7 24) Mark 10:45 25) Gal 1:4; 2:20 26) Romans 14:7-9 27) Philippians 2:9-11 28) Luke 20:34-38 29) Hosea 2:25 30) Romans 11:15-24; 32-36 31) 1 Cor 3:15; 21-23 32) 1 Cor 4:5 33) 1 Tim 2:1-4; Matt 6:10 34) Zeph 3:8-20 35) Haggai 2:22-23 36) Zech 8:7-12 37) Mark 11:17; 56:7 38) Mark 9:49 39) Zech 3:1-10; Amos 4:11 40) Is 66:22-24 41) Lk 12:10; Mt 12:24-32; Mk 3:28-30 42) Is 65:25 43) Dn 7:13-14 44) Eph 1:10-14; 18-23 45) Is 37:20-21 46) Is 35:4-10 47) Eph 4:9-10 48) Luke 15:31-32 49) 2 Pt 3:9-13 50) John 17:2 51) Wis 19:21 52) Wis 17:14 53) Gal 3:6-9 54) Jer 34:15-17 55) Ezek 18:4; 32 56) Ezek 16:59-63; 33:11 57) Ezek 37:26-28 58) 1 Cor 13:4-13 59) Hosea 2:1;18;21-25 60) John 1 61) Romans 10:9-13;18 62) Wis 11:23-12:1 63) Wis 12:16 64) Psalm 145 (especially 8-21) 65) Wis 16:5-15 66) Gen 18:17-17-33 67) Ex 19:5 68) Ex 32:11-14 69) Ex 33:18-19 70) Lv 10:3 71) Lv 25:8-55 72) Lv 26:34-36 73) Lv 26:11-13 74) Romans 8:1; Eph 4:10; 1 Cor 1:30 75) 2 Cor 3:14-18 76) Nm 14:17-24 77) Nm 15:15;26-29 78) Dt 4:29-31 79) Dt 7:14-17 80) Dt 9:29 81) Dt 17:12-13 82) Dt 18:9-22 83) Dt 19:16-21 84) Dt 20:19-20 85) Dt 22:1-4 86) Dt 28:10 87) Dt 30:4-14;19-20 88) Dt 32 (esp. 36-43) 89) Romans 8:19-20 90) Romans 9:5-8 91) Gal 4:21-30(esp. 28) 92) Gal 3:29 93) Joshua 2:9-14;17-21 94) Josh 24:3-4 95) Judges 5:31 96) Judges 8:22-23 97) Judges 10:15-16 98) Judges 16:22;28-31 99) Ruth 1:16-17 100) Ruth 2:10-13;3:9-10 101) Ruth 4:14-22 102) 1 Sam 2:6 103) 1 Sam 2:35-36 104) 1 Sam 3:18 105) 1 Sam 14:21-23 106) 1 Sam 12:17-25 107) 1 Sam 17:45-47 108) 1 Sam 18:13-14 109) 1 Sam 30:24-25 110) Is 25:6-9 111) Romans 6:10 112) 1 Cor 5:5 113) Acts 2:38-39 114) 1 Tim 1:15 115) Tobit 13:2 116) Romans (THE WHOLE THING) 117) Col 1:15-29;3:1-4;11 118) Hebrews 9:27-28 119) Heb 8:8-12 120) Jer 31:33-34 121) 1 Thes 4:13-18 122) John 19:30 123) 2 Tim 4:16-18 124) Rev 20:12-14 125) 1 Cor 15:45-49 126) Phil 3:21 127) Eph 4:6 128) Is 45:22-25 129) John 3:16-17 130) Heb 7:25 131) 1 John 2:1-3 132) Rev 11:15 133) Eph 3 134) Philemon 14 135) John 6:35-40 136) Mt 16:16-19 137) Joel 3:1-5; Acts 2:17-21;39 138) John 16:33 139) 1 John 5:1-5;11-13 140) Is 29:22-24 141) 1 John 4:14;18;42 142) John 12:19 143) John 17:13-26 144) 1 Thes 1:10 145) Titus 3:5-7 146) 1 Peter 1:18-19 147) Mt 1:21 148) Romans 5:18-19 (already listed, but esp. these) 149) Ps 18:6-7 150) Ps 120:1 151) Ps 31:23 152) Ps 16:10-11 153) Ps 30:4 154) Ps 22:28-32 155) Lk 1:17 156) Ps 32:1 157) Zech 7:9-10 158) Zech 14:9 159) Micah 6:6-8 160) Micah 7:7-9 161) Is 40:3-5 162) Lk 2:29-32;3:6 163) John 3:35 164) Col 2:9-10;14-15;20 165) Lk 20:37-38 166) 1 Thes 5:9-11 167) Acts 10:42-43 168) 2 Cor 5:10 169) Is 49:18 170) Nm 23:9-10 171) Is 53:11-12 172) Jer 25:30-32 173) Mt 23:23 174) Mt 26:28 175) Joel 4:11-21 176) Rev 5:9-13 177) 1 John 5:19-21 178) Eph 1:18-23 179) Heb 1:1-4 180) Phil 1:21 181) 1 Thes 5:15 182) Jer 31:33-34 183) 1 Peter 2:10 184) Rev 19:13-16;11:15 185) Ps 19:5;8-15 186) Wis 9:1 187) Ps 94:18 188) Ps 86:5;15 189) Ps 146:7-10 190) Ps 103:8-9;11-13;17-18 191) Daniel 3 192) 1 Cor 8:6 193) John 12:47-50 194) Wis 7:29-30 195) 1 Thes 5:4-5 196) 1 John 2:8 197) Mt 24:14;27;30-31 198) Is 28:16;18 199) Acts 10:34-38; 15:9-11 200) Is 65:1-3 201) Wis 11-12 202) Is 41:4 203) Lk 10:22 204) 2 Mc 1:24-25 205) Ex 15:26 206) Dt 32:39 207) 2 Mc 6:12-31;7:23 208) Romans 9:15; 1 Tim 2:3-4 209) Ex 29:45-46 210) Ezek 37:25-28; 2 Cor 6:16 211) Luke 2:1-14 (esp. 10-11) 212) John 1:29 213) Luke 4:14-22 214) John 10:9-11 215) John 14:1-4 216) John 6:51 217) Is 25:6-9 218) Rev 1:18 219) Mt 28:17-20 220) Acts 1:8 221) John 14:16-18 222) Acts 2:32-33 223) John 15:4-5 224) Eph 3:14-19 225) Rev 1:13-17;2:4b-5a;10 226) Heb 13:8 227) Acts 17:29-32 228) Mt 11:28-29 229) 2 Cor 6:2 230) Rev 22:17 231) Is 40:26 232) Ps 115:3 233) Is 41:4;8-10 234) I Chr 29:10-13 235) Luke 1:37 236) Ps 106:8;45-46 237) 2 Pt 1:11;21 238) 1 Tim 3:16 239) 2 Cor 7:10 240) Mt 6:14 241) Eph 5:11-14 242) Ezek 36:26-28 243) 1 Cor 6:11 244) 2 Tim 1:9-12 245) Romans 8:16 246) Is 12:3 247) 1 Pt 1:8-9 248) 2 Thes 1:5-10 249) Lk 6:46-49 250) 2 Cor 3:9-11;2 Cor 2:10-11 251) Mt 10:32-33 252) Ps 23 253) Heb 2:14-15 254) I John 3:8 255) Acts 26:17-18 256) James 1:25;4:7-8 257) Romans 4:23-25 258) Heb 12:14 259) Ps 43:18-20 260) Is 66:2 261) 1 Pt 4:12-13 262) Romans 16:20 263) Is 43:2 264) 1 Cor 10:13 265) Nahum 1:12-13 266) 2 Cor 8:9 267) John 20:21-23 268) 1 John 5:13-15 269) 1 Pt 1:22-25 270) 1 Tim 1:5-7 271) John 15:11-12 272) John 16:22-23 273) John 14:6 274) John 4:24-26 275) John 14:27 276) 1 John 4:9 277) 1 John 4:15-17 278) 1 John 1:7; Heb 9:13-15 279) Heb 13:20-21 280) Heb 6:16-20 281) Acts 16:25-31 282) Lv 16:21 283) Nm 5:5-10 284) Neh 9:5-7 285) Neh 1:6-9 286) Ex 6:5-9 287) 2 Kgs 13:23 288) Rev 3:20-22 289) Ps 67:5-8 290) Ps 66:2-12 291) 1 Cor 2:5;13-16 292) Acts 4:12 293) Is 53:6;11 294) 2 Tim 3:15;4:1-2 295) Acts 20:32 296) Rev 17:14 297) Ps 130:3-4;8 298) 2 Chr 7:13-14 299) 2 Cor 4:11 300) Phil 2:13 301) Lamentations 3:22-24 302) Is 1:18 303) Is 55:1;3;6-13 304) Eph 3:16 305) Phil 4:13 306) Eph 4:5 307) 1 Cor 1:9 308) 1 John 1:3-4 309) 1 Cor 1:30-31 310) 1 Pt 4:7-11 311) Phil 2:15-16 312) 1 Pt 5 313) 1 Kgs 17:17-24 314) 1 Kgs 11:35-39 315) 1 Kgs 8:30;33-34 316) 1 Kgs 8:41-45;59-60 317) 1 Kgs 13:6 318) 2 Kgs 4:3-7;40-44 319) 2 Sam 7:6-17 320) 2 Sam 16:18 321) Job 42 322) 2 Thes 3:3 323) 2 Thes 1:11 324) 2 John 1-4 325) 3 John 1-6 (esp. 5) 326) Hab 3:2-3;13;18-19 327) Mal 3:2;6 328) Esther F:5-10 329) Esther A:8-10 330) 2 Sam 22:6-7;20 331) 2 Sam 23:3-5 332) 2 Sam 24:10 333) 2 Sam 24:14 334) Sir 2:18 335) Sir 15:15-17 336) Sir 16:28 337) Obadiah 17;21 (esp. 21) 338) Amos 9:14 339) Sir 24:8-9;19 340) Sir 36:22;37:25 341) Sir 29:16;34-35 342) Sir 40:11-12;17 343) Sir 42:15-16;18 344) Sir 43:27;33 345) Sir 48:5;11 (incl. 11b, extant only in Greek - “for we too shall certainly live”) 346) Sir 49:16 (“felix culpa” - Latin: “fortunate fault”) 347) Sir 51 (esp. 4-11) 348) Jonah 4 349) Mal 3:6-10 350) Mal 1:2 351) Mal 3:20;23-24 352) Song of Songs (Union of Christ to the Church; our souls) 353) Eccl 3:11-15;22 354) Eccl 7:8 355) Eccl 8:1;11-13 356) Prv 4:20-22 357) Prv 9:11 358) Prv 10:2;12 359) Prv 11:4 360) Prv 13:12-14 361) Prv 14:19;25-28 362) Prv 15:1;4;11;17;24-26 363) Prv 18:17 364) Prv 20:8 365) Prv 21:8;30-31 366) Prv 22:2 367) Prv 23:18 368) Prv 24:11-14 369) Prv 25;21-22;26 370) Prv 26;2 371) Prv 27:20-21 372) Prv 28: 1-5;13 373) Prv 29:4;7;10;12-14; 25-27 374) Ezra 10:44 375) Judith 8:11-16;9:11-14;16:16 376) 1 Mc 2:61-64;12:21-23 377) Ezra 1:5-6 378) Ezra 3:11-13 379) Ezra 8:22 380) Acts 15:16-18 381) Dt 31:6 382) Sir 50:17;22 383) 2 Kgs 5:14 384) 2 Kgs 6:22-23 385) 2 Kgs 13:23 386) 2 Kgs 14:26-27 387) 2 Kgs 17:39 388) 2 Kgs 19:15;19;34 389) 2 Kgs 20:5-6 390) 1 Chr 16:8-36;41 391) 1 Chr 17:8-15 392) 1 Chr 29:30 393) John 14:26 394) John 16:5-15 395) Is 52:7-15 396) Ps 100:5 397) John 6:29 398) 1 Cor 14:22-25 399) Jer 33 400) 2 Chr 6:33 401) 2 Chr 30:18-20 402) Tobit 14:5-7 403) Ps 139:8 404) Enoch 39 1-2 405) Mt 17:24-27 406) Gal 5:1 407) Lam 3:31-33 *Non-Exhaustive*

Hottest philosopher.

Thank you for this conversation. I am struggling with this as a 58 yr old convert Baptist who is nearing becoming a catechumen in the blessed Orthodox Church of God.

If universalism is true, why would God allow so much human suffering?

What's the problem exactly? That's a philosophical claim, but that doesn't mean it is a false claim. If you are trying to point that it is a philosophical claim then ok, but that's so unimportant. The crux of the matter is whether it is true or not. The theist will gain little by pointing that it is a philosophical claim or that Dawkins is not aware of that or that Dawkins himself is not consistent. That in itself doesn't undermine metaphysical naturalism At the end of the day if metaphysical naturalism is true then the theist is still mistaken fundamentally.

There is an objective standard for epistocracy Civics tests, if you don't know how the system works why should you have a say?

It's very easy to define Fascism, but of course if you are reading Ian Kershaw and Roger Griffin who studied National Socialism, then sure, it can be hard as German National Socialism was a completely different ideology than Mussolini's Fascism. Rather disappointing and misinforming lecture if you never mentioned Georges Sorel or Gabriele D'Annunzio or Giovanni Gentile, or Sergio Panunzio, or Alceste De Ambris or Filippo Tommaso Marinetti or Italian historians who are de facto golden standard when it comes to Fascism; Renzo De Felice and Emilio Gentile.

I have a feeling things remain veiled to peoples understanding of the wisdom of God because God foreknows what knowledge men can and can’t handle but nonetheless if they mishandle what’s given to them, their punishment is to go back into the dark. Acts says He chose our habitations that we might feel after Him. And through suffering we do learn our lessons. Your sin will find you out so to speak. But the agony of suffering for fear of the future is like a rod of iron that corrects the child like spirit. Hebrews mentions that he’d like to give them spiritual meat but they’re still on milk. And mentions we’re chastised rebuked and scourged for the sake of salvation. It’s wild that these theological discussions are made pretty clear when you open your mind from all things are impossible with God to all things are possible. I think that’s the whole point of sitting at Jesus feet like a foe and beggar in need of spiritual food. And when Jesus is the one training a disciple, they’re given keys to the kingdom, and since Jesus has the keys to death and hades, disciples are trained on how to see the way out of impossibilities and also encourage the weak and feeble. These conversations I’ve experienced when universalism is in the room, they give so much more understanding to scripture. Like the light switch is turned on. People being brought to salvation is like the calvinists describe, a choosing, but that choosing isn’t to look down on all the others outside like the Jews did but rather to be formed to the image of Christ which is a savior to mankind. I think the reason we have denominations is because people were moved from faith to faith but when called to the next chapter, they looked back and weren’t chosen to move forward because they saw it required more death of something carnal they’re holding on to. Just some thoughts I’ve pondered for a bit, sorry for the long comment

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The argument he makes about the rich ruling is ironic - the rich already rule in democracy via campaign finance and lobbying. Do away with political parties, campaigns and legalized bribery and this control by the rich would decrease in an epistocracy even if being knowledgeable is more correlated with wealth. A middle class person in most countries is a well educated person relative to that society. They can easily score equally with a wealthy person in a voting test or a weighted vote. But, no middle class person can afford to buy politicians like what's happening in so-called democracy.

Epistocracy has been tried. Institutions, companies, and other formations typically promote the best to the top. Save for nepotism and favoritism, which most of us agree are detrimental to an organization, entities that employee meritocracy tend to have better results. When you choose a doctor for health advice over a carpenter, or the cumulative opinions of your non health professional friends, you're choosing an epistoractic process. Also, there is a strawman being employed about "philosopher kings". Epistocracy can still allow for voting, however the votes would accompany responses that would be graded, or, voters would have a score based on a pre-votong test that would weight their votes accordingly.

I found it funny that you guys in 5:32, mentioned the bad actions done by an agency that is the product of American democracy (the CIA), and then somehow, used this to say that epistocracy is actually bad. Every point you have mentioned in this video was answered by Jason Brennan in various articles and interviews, and the only real point that you made that I think is legitimate, is the fact that epistocracy was never been tested in large scale. There is no country in recent history that actually created a system in which, only those with the basic objective knowledge are allowed to vote. Therefore, the lack of real life large scale successful examples of epistocracy (at least like how Brennan describes it), is the only rationale I found to justify not seriously supporting the epistocratization of the world's democracies.

so what god, then?

so what god, then?

it's only a problem for theists

We don‘t have to start out with a high bar. In year 1, we ask elementary math questions. If you cannot answer questions like 81 / 9=? And 7x+2=16, solve for x, then you simply should not be voting.

Egotistical - narcissistic - selfish - inconsiderate SOMEHOW HOW THINKING THEIR GENE POOL IS GREATER THAN ANYONE ELSE OR BELIEVING ANYONE WILL REMEMBER OR GIVE A THOUGHT TO THEIR LINEAGE. LEGACY - AT THE END NO ONE GIVES A SHIT. I HONESTLY DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANY LEGACY LEFT THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND I KNOW FOR CERTAIN THE REST OF MANKIND WOULDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT MY LEGACY, LINEAGE OR WHATEVER MARK I LEAVE THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY. SO WHO GIVES A SHIT IF YOU HAVE A CHILD OR DONT. I wish my mom and dad aborted me, if they couldn't wear a condom. I HAVE SOME DUMB, STUPID AND IGNORANT PARENTS 😠😠😠

amazing video!

That's a very deceptive way of saying "scientists are open minded and I am not." Being scientific just means following the evidence available to us. Anything is possible and we can be wrong, but it is irrational to go against the evidence until someone provides better evidence. You make it sound like there is no evidence that exists at all. What doesn't exist is any other dependable alternative to knowing things than empirical study. You can't do anything without it. You wouldn't be using your electronic devices to be misleading people on the internet. Discoveries are based on what we observe, not what we imagine.

Hell is the exact opposite of the bliss Heaven. It is the most defiled moral and spiritual dimension. It is a mindset. Terrorism is an aspect of a Hell mindset. Hell is devoid of the Glory of God.

Based on your understanding of Kant, your houghts make sense, whether or not they are totally onvincing. But unfortunately, you do not really understand Kant. I'm not addressing the issue of whether Kant is right or wrong, but merely that your understanding of Kant is incredibly deficient. I think that perhaps you have not really studied Kant carefully, but instead have only read a very limited amount of secondary sources dealing only with the first Critique, not the second and third, and certainly not his book dealing with the Christian religion. You should probably try to do that before making a video about Kant"s philosophy.

Kant is right... We kan't conceptualize God.

Great tips. You are right about writing.

What if eternal conscious torment in hell is real?

I hate it when atheists argue the bible can be either interpreted only literally or metaphorically. They fail to recognize the bible is a small library of different books authored by different people over the course of it's writing. They're deliberately creating a false dilemma.

So...Hitler gets into Heaven?

There are two major things I don't see brought up in discussions about the problem of evil. 1. Evil would not exist if God would have simply not created anything. Since it was God's decision to create, this makes him both the necessary and sufficient cause of all evil that exists. This observation means any appeal to theodicy or human sacrifice as an explanation actually ends up making God provide a solution to the problem He created in the first place. Apply this to any other real world situation to see how absurd it is. 2. Any appeal to a "greater good" theodicy paradoxically ends up being a denial of evil. They are basically saying it was "better for the evil to occur" or it was "for the best." But if that's actually the case, then they can't actually call it "evil" anymore. It's now "good." Obviously, no one actually thinks things like the Holocaust were "for the best." But the "greater good" theodicist is necessarily committed to this position. Since no one actually believes this, that tells us we should reject any sort of "greater good" theodicy on practical grounds.

The A, B, C Formula of Divine Creation with Emphasis on Certainty... God the creator by willingly creating A, knowing with certainty that B and C will obtain (as a result of creating A), did in effect willingly create B and C by willingly creating A.

A couple of tremendous fundamental defects in this mode of thought. The establishment of the binary conception of categorizing all of human consciousness into the binary of higher and lesser modes of being. Duality is insufficient for constraining and rendering human awareness into a theoretical container for a singular style of theoretical reductive explanation. Then the entire reduction and ultimate constraint placed upon Christ as the prescriber of a weaker and lesser slave morality in reference to Christianity. Two tremendous and catastrophic fatal errors that fundamentally causes such thought to deconstruct into essentially nihilistic thought in some cases. Nihilistic thought is absolutely a symptom of absolute failure of an existential theoretical construct. It is also a grave misfortune to dismiss Christ and the entire moral lessons as presented by biblical scripture as insufficient for prescribing a spiritual ontological solution inherently. Unfortunately Nietzsche delves into a incredibly dangerous task that fundamentally is founded upon the very lives of numerous people in history as well as a man whom is identified as a spiritual savior. Terribly dangerous to attempt to symbolically go about reorienting variables to recategorize abstract fundamental meaning. Jesus Christ and his disciples gave their lives for the sake of their teachings, explicitly to try to save lives and souls. To potentially teach in opposition to such a thing can be a incredibly destructive and horrendous task. My favorite quote that helped me identify Nietzsche's main fundamental error was this: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” “Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.” - John Dalberg-Acton

Absence of light is darkness, absence of heat is cold, absence of Yeshua is Evil.

God is the cause of all evil because he decided to create. If he didn't create anything, there would be no evil.

Do you know this thousands of years old philosophical dilemma that all the theologians and philosophers have been pondering about: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” - Epicurus. I was pondering about this dilemma as well for quite some time, thinking that if God truly is all good then He must desire to create an all-good universe without any evil pain or suffering at all, and if He is truly all-powerful then He must have the powers/ability to create such universe. Then what is going on? Why don't we see such a perfectly good universe? Later I got it. God clearly gave me the understanding that He truly is all good meaning that He truly does desire to create an all-good universe where nobody does any evil and nobody suffers at all and that He truly is an all-powerful God meaning that He does have the powers and the ability to do it, to create perfectly good universe. Yet then comes the catch; because even God Himself must act according to the laws of logic, this means that to be able to accomplish such a task and create a perfectly good universe, a hard, time-consuming, and painful process must take place first where the eruption of evil and suffering was inevitable and unavoidable but only for finite amount of time. In other words, if we have an all-powerful and an all-good God, why don't we see an all-good universe? It is because we have not yet reached that time. God said in the Bible that He will make all things new; this is literal, all will be made new and in that new order no evil no pain no corruption will exist at all.

This isn't that big of an issue. As long as you just be brutally honest and bring ALL of the various teachings of the Bible into focus. 1) God is love. BUT 2) God also has the capacity for hate. And God does hate PEOPLE. He hates the SINNER...not just their sin. "The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence." -Psalm 11:5 The whole "God loves the sinner but hates the sin" idea is one of those Christian myths that are not found in the Bible but gets bandied around in Christian circles. It's like the whole "God helps those who help themselves." <<< that's not in the Bible either. 3) God's love is not evenly distributed. And here is another big point... 4) Most human are God's enemies. And they always will be. They are HIS enemeis...that is...they would hate him if they actually came face to face with who he really is vs the made up "buddy" god that they conjure in their mind. They would hate the real God and it's easy to prove. God could just tell them... "Hey..this is my story and I like the idea of patriarchy. It's a good thing and humanity can only flourish if it's in full effect. You can fight it...but things will eventually go off the rails and you'll all be miserable. Becuase that's how I chose to do the world building for this particular video game." Yup...they would hate him for that. This is an important point. Humans in their natural state are enemies of God who shake their fists at him. But more than that... 5) God is THEIR enemy too. He is very upfront about this in the Bible. He openly says he plans to destroy them. His enemies. Totally. Utterly. And without mercy. He actually always wants to destroy them. Only his own patience/mercy/grace holds him back from wiping us all out right now. That and his obsessive love for his chosen people. 6) Since most humans are God's enemies...is it really any wonder if he doesn't seem to care what happens to them? That's how we would describe it. Not caring. If you are in a battle...are you really going to start lending aid to your enemies? Or are you going to shoot them? Which is why it should be a SURPRISE that most humans receive anything good in life at all! 7) God does love his enemies and bestow good things on them...but not all the time. All the good that his enemies receive are essentially a bonus because remember...what he REALLY wants to do is nuke them and clean them out of his good world so they can't keep mucking it up. 8) The current state of affairs is very short in light of eternity. In 40 trillion years...the entirety of all that will have happened from the moment of creation to the moment of recreation will be so small it will be almost zero time at all. It would amount to a single drop of water in contrast to the entirety of the world's oceans. So in that light...the really isn't an overwhelming amount of evil all over the place. God is completely present in the Year 440,225,221 just as he is now. And MOST of the time that will pass between no and then (almost all of it really) will be free of all evil and suffering. And WHEN we get there....all the time that will have passed in that 440+ million years will really just be like the opening paragraph of the preface that comes before the introduction that comes before the first chapter of the book. So God doesn't see it the way you described. God is looking around at everything at every time and when he looks around he sees very little evil happening overall. It all just happens to be concentrated in this one time-corner of history past-and-future. A small blip on the radar. It tis but a scratch. 9) God is obsessed with the long-term good and happiness of his Chosen People - this is one of his defining characteristics. Ultimately...the reason why "the problem of evil" isn't a problem at all is because the Bible explains it to us. It's not in one place...but spread through the whole book. You have to gather up the pieces of the map and put them together as it were. Here's the answer you are looking for (but won't like)... The reason why evil was allowed to exist...is because for his Chosen People...eternity future would be LESS GOOD for them if he had designed the course of history such that evil HADN'T been allowed to exist. His people need to know first-hand what evil is...in order to be truly appreciative of being fully and finally delivered from it in eternity future. If he had organized things such that people could never have "fallen"...then there would have been a cap on their understanding of sin/death/forgiveness/redemption and thus a cap on their understanding of God which would have resulted in an eternity where their happiness and joy was "capped". But God decided to remove the cap. And it essentially cost "everything". It cost himself. He had to experience death himself in order to for his people to experience "life more abundantly". So he really was willing to lead from the front where that is concerned. It's safe to say that all the pain and misery every human who ever has lived or ever will live....all taken together and combined likely was "Less painful" than what God himself experienced when there was a separation driven between The Son and the other two members of the trinity. God doesn't think too highly of our being upset with him about people being in pain because....he knows more about pain than all of us put together.

The problem of evil is the problem of suffering which is the problem of meaning. An accident is a breakdown of meaning. There is also no meaning without God.

Seems to me, he didn't even define what evil is. So I guess I'll have to write a book to explain it. 😁

The problem of evil isn't in any way a good justification for atheism is literally a non sequitur

Satan was giving power over this world, that why evil exist. If you believe evil exist, you must believe Satan exist... if you are tired of evil... live a life in order to get back to heaven.

Why do some Americans speak with a forced lower pitch? It can be really annoying at times 🤷🏻‍♂️

A hot philosopher! 😍

I would say that all objections to Christianity originate in the problem of evil in one way or another.

The problem of evil from my point of view does not have a relation to the question if God exists. Atheists assume that a loving god would not allow for evil at all. From this point they conclude that the existance of evil rules out a god, at least the existance of a loving god. Evil is a quite abstract term. What does it mean when we say that evil exists? I would say that people act wickedly or tend to do evil things. Now there are two different ways of dealing with people who do evil things. God can eliminate them or he tries to transform them into people who are doing good. Transformation is a process that takes time and requires the allowance for evil to happen - at least temporarily. So a loving god would be recognized by allowing time for evildoers to repent and turn back to him. That is what the Christian gospel is about. It is comparable to parents whose child does bad things. They will not try to get rid of the child, but rather train it to do good. God as our father is doing the same with us. At least that is my take on the question.

Cemeteries are always inspiring.

I wouldn't find it egregious to make such a claim. I think that Seven Pounds in some sense explored the idea of self-sacrificing egoism.

"...rule things out and what ever remains is likely." I think of that as Bayesian reasoning, and the 'what remains that is likely' I call ampliative truth. Now again this terminology and perspective is more applicable early in the process. After regarding something as 'likely' for twenty years ( and not just twenty years sitting on the shelf ), is it true or is it just an ampliative truth? Ampliative truth is truth that is not absolutely certain and always open to another look. It's the way you'd want to bet.

Hell, stolen from Norse Pagan “Hel”/“Helle” then combined with Hades (Greek Pagan underworld) which Peter says is Hell. “Hell is your parent’s basement.” - Mike Jones So Mike made up his own version of Hell because anyone capable of free thought knows that Biblical Pagan Hell is incoherent. If god exists and is omnipresent, and Hell exists… God is in Hell… same for Satan. Jesus was Jewish, so he believed in Sheol which isn’t Christian Hell… Mike Jones has created his own definition which contradicts Jesus and Christianity.

As a man thinketh…James Allen knew something…

Excellent video, Eric! You have a way of explaining things so well. Love your work.