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Why #god Allows Evil and Suffering By @brettkeane · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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I have to believe we are magic. Nothing can stand.
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And then I will have to believe we are magic.
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Don't let your aim in the street.
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Me and. Hello ladies and gentlemen, My
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name is Brett Keen and you are watching and listening to the
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audience would like to hear about.
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The kind of videos or content that you want to listen to and
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one of the big. Things that people voted for on
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my prior surveys was why does God allow evil?
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Why does God allow suffering in the world?
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So I'm going to respond to that today, and I would also
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encourage all of you to check out my community page.
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That way you can kind of help direct where my YouTube channel
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say, Brad, I'd like to know about this.
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I'd like to know about that. And that's enough.
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People respond to you or I find that it's interesting.
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I will get around to making a video to you about it and as
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usual. If any of you want to make
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videos to me, you're more than welcome to post them to me
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directly, either in my comments or on my community page.
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Hell, And if I'm responding to your video, I'll let people know
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where your channel is and where the original questions came
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from, and then I'll attempt to answer it.
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As far as God allowing suffering and evil in the world, where
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does this question usually come from?
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They usually comes from sometimes Christians or people
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of faith who have had some problems, who've had some issues
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in their life. And they ask that question of,
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you know, if there's a loving God, then why does it seem like
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the world can be unfair sometimes?
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And that's a perfectly natural question to ask whether you
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believe in God or not. A lot of atheists ask the same
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question if there is a God. Then why is there so much pain
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and suffering? It's actually a perfectly
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natural question, but unfortunately, even whenever
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it's coming from some Christians as well as some atheists,
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sometimes it's not done in the most honest way either.
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See one thing I've. Learned in my life.
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Is if you really, truly want to deal with a problem.
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If you really feel like there's something wrong or you feel like
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there's a problem, then you need to find out the root source of
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it. You need to find out where is
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the suffering coming from? Where is the evil coming from?
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Why is it even happening in the 1st place?
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There's no doubt. There's no question that the
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world that we live in is unfair. There's no question that good
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people suffer and hurt all the time.
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People who do not deserve to hurt and suffer have this happen
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to them all the time. So it's understandable why
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people would chirp up and say what's the deal?
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A lot of atheists, whenever they're speaking about God, they
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talk about God as though he's just some old man that lives in
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the clouds who just watches his little ants below, basically
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under a melting pot. Some atheist even suggests that
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God enjoys watching the suffering and the pain that
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happens in the world. One of the big memes of a lot of
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nonbelievers, as well as even a couple religious folks out
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there. I've caught, they'll say, what
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about the children in Africa? What about these kids that are
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starving to death? Why are the kids in Africa
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starving for? Is it because a bunch of black
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people are running around in the country killing white farmers?
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And killing each other and enslaving each other, even in
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modern times? Is it because there's constant
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tribalism and constant wars and political nonsense happening all
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the time? So if we really look at the
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problem, the problem is coming from the same humans who are
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complaining about God being evil in order to be able to stop the
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suffering and pain in the world. The problem?
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That is making all the issues has to be dealt with, right?
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I mean, in order to stop evil, you have to stop the evil
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generator and which it's coming from.
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And I would suggest this if God today in the very next 5 minutes
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were to make the decision that he was going to interact with
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the entire human race and get rid of anybody that generates
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evil. Are wrong or hurt towards
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someone else. I can tell you right now with
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absolutely no doubt in my heart or my mind that a lot of
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Christians would be destroyed and a lot of atheists would be
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destroyed if not most of them. I have never met a great and
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wonderful giving atheist before in my life.
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Most humans, whether they're religious or nonbeliever, are
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very selfish people. So if God did interact, God's
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not just going to deal with the result of evil, He would deal
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with the evil itself and where it's coming from.
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And we, ladies and gentlemen, are the root of the problem.
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We are the very root of the issue.
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So think about that. According to God, everything
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that we do, whether we think it's big or small.
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Anything that we do that causes harm, our causes someone
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offense, our causes someone sadness, our causes someone to
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lose hope, our children to stumble and their faith, It's
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because of us. It's because of the parents,
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it's because of the teachers, it's because of our leaders.
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It's because of our government. If you really, really, honestly
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want to know why there's evil and suffering in the world.
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Then you have to look at the very issue.
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Now, some people might say, yeah, that's true, Brett, 80% of
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the pain and suffering that happens in the world is because
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of people. But what about the issues that
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have nothing to do with people, like what's happening in nature?
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Well, if you ask any liberal out there, especially a lot of these
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liberals who call themselves the Green Piece, they'll tell you
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that we've caused a lot of damage to our environment as
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well. So when you get these big
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tornadoes or you get these big storms and all this destruction
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where entire cities and towns are being wiped out and entire
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neighborhoods are being destroyed by nature, according
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to a lot of people, including scientist, we're the reason
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behind that as well. We're not all of it, but we're
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contributing to our own destruction now.
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People are going to say, OK, this is all true, Brett, you're
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right. We're the reason why this is the
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deal. But what about the good people?
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Can't God do something about that?
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Well, that's a fascinating point that I've heard some people put
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out. But what about some of the good
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people? Well, I personally believe that
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God has done good in my life. And I can think of thousands of
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Christians on the Internet who have made countless videos who
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said that God has interacted in their life, and because of God,
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their life is better. But they had to make the choice
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of actually saying to God, I'm willing to sacrifice things.
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I'm willing to sacrifice my greed and my selfishness.
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I'm willing to not love the things of this world and the
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material things. And now people are coming to the
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realization that they don't need to be rich.
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They don't need to be wealthy. They don't need to have the
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best, you know, video game console in the world in order to
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live strong, happy, peaceful content lives.
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Some people realize that money isn't going to buy you love.
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And those people are living pretty good.
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You can actually be financially poor.
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And live the most beautiful life that you've ever had.
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You could be living in a cabin with a beautiful woman and
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hunting off the land and not even bothering to be distracted
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by the problems of this world. But a lot of people, they feel
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pain because they're not able to achieve or accomplish something
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some celebrity or popular person ever did.
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The point is, is that a lot of the pain that we suffer is pain
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that we put on ourselves. That is unnecessary.
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A lot of us, we think about money, money, money.
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And what is it that I can do to make my own people do good?
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Well, God doesn't care a damn bit about money.
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He doesn't care about if you've got the most.
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Expensive television or high definition or the best video
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camera to record your face on so you can blab.
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He cares about the human soul. He doesn't just care about you
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in this life, but what your future will be once you go into
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eternity. Let me tell you guys a little
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story. It's kind of a joke, really, but
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it actually has a lot of serious meaning to it.
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There's a. A scientist and an atheist.
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Not the same person, just a scientist and an atheist.
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They die, as everybody inevitably does.
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Remember, it's just a story, ladies and gentlemen, so don't
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get all freaked out. The atheist and the scientist
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die on the same day. Thousands of people die a day,
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ladies and gentlemen. So the hypothetical and the
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story could be considered truth. So they're standing before God.
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The atheist, of course, is shocked.
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So as a scientist, well, the scientist says to God, he goes,
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wow, you really do exist. You are real.
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This is amazing. But here's the thing, God.
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As I stand here at Judgment Day, I say to you this as a
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scientist, we. As a science community, we don't
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really require God. You're not required in order for
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us to exist. We've been able to do just fine
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without you. We've been able to invent
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things. We've been able to create
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things. We're able to absorb knowledge.
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We can make anything that we need or want in order to be able
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to survive and find convenience in this life.
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You just simply have no place in this universe anymore.
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God is what the scientist says. And God shakes his head, gives a
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smile, and then looks at the scientists and says, so you're
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saying that you don't require me in order to exist?
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And the scientist says that is correct.
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And God says, can you create anything?
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And the scientist looks at him with a snobby look on his face,
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giving a snobby expression, and says, yeah, I can create, I can
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create anything. You know, I've given enough
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time. I can create an entire universe
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myself if I wanted to. Now he's getting a little bit
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too narcissistic. But go along with me on this and
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God says, OK, here's what I want you to do.
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You say that an intelligent designer is not required and God
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opens his hand and inside of his hand is a rosebud.
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God says, I want you to create this.
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When the scientist says what God says, I want you to create this
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little bitty rosebud. I want you to create one.
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And the scientist says, well, I need my lab.
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I need my, I need to get up some material and I need to get the
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chemicals and all that. I'm sure I can do something.
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I just need enough time and God says, whoa, whoa, whoa, Mr.
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Scientist, hold on for a second. You don't get to use anything.
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You see all the materials and the chemicals in the universe,
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every property that you know of, all space and time and matter.
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I made it. You have to now make this out of
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nothing, just like you claimed that I did, the scientist says.
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Whoa, But I I need. I need to be able to have the
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rules set. I need to have the material I I
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need to work under natural laws. God says I made the natural
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laws. I made everything.
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But now unless you can make the rows out of thin air, unless you
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can create the very element yourself, then you're not doing
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anything. You're simply using what I made
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already. And God basically brushes the
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scientist stuff. That was the end of the
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scientist. Now comes the atheist.
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The atheist says, Let's say the atheist is Christopher Hitchens.
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We're going to use some of his biggest arguments that he ever
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did against God, claiming that God is not great.
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Christopher Hitchens looks at God and says, why did you allow
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all those Africans to starve to death?
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Why did you allow all that suffering?
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Why did you allow pain? Throughout humanity.
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So as you can see ladies and gentlemen, Christopher Hitchens
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has given his usual arguments for all based upon emotion and
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how he perceives the existence of humanity.
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And God looks at Christopher Hitchens and says what did you
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do for humanity? If I am considered evil by the
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very statement that you've made, then let's turn that around on
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you. What have you done, Hitchens?
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How many charities were you a part of?
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How many times did you visit other countries and actually
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help people? Oh, that's right, you didn't.
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You did drugs and you drank alcohol until you were dead.
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You were unhealthy. You didn't even love yourself
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enough to take care of yourself. And that's the reason why you're
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dead now and standing before me. He didn't do anything but stand
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behind the podium and bang your hand like a Baptist preacher
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telling the world that I am not here and that I don't exist.
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But you didn't make any effort to make the world a better
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place. Anybody can complain.
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Anybody can get popular. Anybody can feed their ego and
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narcissism. But what did you do, Mr.
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Hitchens? What did you do, Mr. Stephen
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Hawking? What did you do, Mr. Richard
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Dawkins? What did you do?
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You complained about other people's beliefs and views.
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You claimed about what people cared about, had no substance to
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it. You literally brought
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hopelessness. But you didn't bring anything
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good to the table. You had the ability.
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Richard Dawkins. You were smart, Hitchens.
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You were articulate. You could have tried to
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encourage people to do better or do right, and you could have
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used all the money that you made doing what you do.
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To actually help benefit the world.
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But you didn't, Along with all your rich friends.
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That's what we notice about a lot of atheists after, don't we,
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ladies and gentlemen? And this isn't the video to dump
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our nonbelievers. But nonbelievers are always
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complaining about what's happening in the world and all
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this, But they contribute to the evil.
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That's the point. They contribute to the
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suffering, and then they have the audacity to say to God, but
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what are you going to do, God? Let me tell you what God did,
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Ladies and gentlemen, in case some of you have out there
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forgotten. First of all, God created the
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entire universe. He gave us a world where it
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already had all the resources required.
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He gave you the ability to make a family.
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He gave you the ability to have children, and if you can't have
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children, you always have the ability to adopt.
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He created life itself, and He created the very ability to even
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exist in the 1st place, to live the life that you want to, no
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matter if it's evil or good. You have the choice.
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God loved you so much that He gave you the free will to be
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able to do what you want. And if all's you chose to do
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throughout your entire life was complain instead of be the
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generator of good in life and love, then you're part of the
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problem, aren't you? You're just another broken spoke
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in the machine complaining about its place.
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And that's the issue ladies and gentlemen.
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So God's last response to the dead atheist is?
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I created you with arms and legs and hands.
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I created you and I infested your very soul with the power
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and the ability and the heart to be able to do something good.
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Yet you chose to do nothing. And the atheist has the audacity
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to say to God, but what did you do besides creating the entire
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universe and existence itself, and even the potential to feel
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joy and peace and love? God says, well, I came down to
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humanity many times. I died on the cross for you all.
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I loved you so much that I died for you.
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I came down to the world in the Old Testament and I got rid of
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entire groups of people so other groups of people would be able
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to flourish that we're trying to do good.
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Every time I got rid of evil people or tried to do something
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about evil. You would then get on your
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YouTube video and complain about how evil and horrible I am.
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I got rid of all the evil leaders and evil governments and
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bad kingdoms in the past, and every time I did it, I wasn't
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praised or respected for trying to make the world a better place
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for humanity. You see, God already existed in
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that type of scenario. There was already when you read
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the Bible, you already read about a God who interacted with
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humanity. And every if you read the Bible,
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anything that you've ever asked or wondered nowadays Why isn't
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God doing this? Or why is God doing that?
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Or why does God allow this? If you read the entire Bible
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cover to cover whether you're religious or nonbeliever, you're
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going to find out that God tried every scenario possible.
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So at the end of the day, most people are probably going to
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ask, well then, why wasn't God able to accomplish it?
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Why have people gotten worse? Why has things gotten more
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terrible, even though God did interact and do all these things
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well? That's a question for humans,
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isn't it? Why?
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God knows everything. He knows that humans are going
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to get worse and worse and worse.
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In the end, it's going to be bad.
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The only reason why God hasn't come yet is because there's
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still some of us out there that want to change and want to do
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better and do good. But there's going to be a day
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where it becomes like the day of Noah, where people decide they
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don't care anymore, where the entire population says I give
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up, I don't care about the environment, I don't care about
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my fellow man. I don't care about my neighbor.
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It's about me, me, me. And the day comes when humans
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have become absolutely irrelevant and useless.
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When humans have become fully hopeless and decided to hold
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everybody else accountable instead of themself with the
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greed and selflessness of this world.
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Until humans decide to look inward as opposed to outward and
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do something about it, this is the way this world will remain.
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When will it end? When we all finally conclude
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that there's no point anymore, no reason for even trying.
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And that's the point of it. And why doesn't all knowing God
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do this? Because perhaps in this way of
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doing things, it allows you to free will, to come to Him with
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loving open arms. You got to choose if you want to
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marry into that commitment. And maybe God has tried this
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scenario millions and millions of times, interacting here and
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there, stopping this. According to millions of
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Christians around the world, the reason why they are Christian is
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because they've either seen God, they've heard God, and they've
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actually seen what God has actually done for them in their
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life. That's why Christianity is the
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most popular religion in the world, because Christians are
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known to be very outspoken about whenever God does something for
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them or lets God see something that they may have not seen
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before. So when you hear that atheist
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say where is God, why isn't God doing something?
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Perhaps God is only working with people that he thinks will
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actually use the blessings that they get for good.
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Perhaps God is only giving to those that he knows won't use it
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for a weapon against others or hurt people.
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A blessing can become a curse if it's in the wrong hands.
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Ladies and gentlemen, imagine what would happen if Adolf
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Hitler had prayed for immortality and God gave it to
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him. Although it might be nice for
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Adolf Hitler, it wouldn't be nice for all the people he plans
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on killing and hurting. Why would God give a bunch of
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money to a person who's only going to buy them a new Xbox and
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say the hell with the rest of the world?
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You see, if you're going to give good things to people, make sure
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you give it to people who are going to use it for the good and
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for the better. At the end of the day, the all
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my knowing God is going to know what is optimal for humanity.
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The best route to take, the best direction to take.
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God knows before it all started that some people weren't going
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to climb out of the pool, some people weren't going to do
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something to make life better. No matter what scenario it is,
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not everybody can be saved unless God forces his hand.
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And let's face it, we've seen what happened whenever God went
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against free will in the Bible. That's right, and the Bible.
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There were many times where God did things that other people
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that humans did not like, especially the kingdoms that
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were doing evil things. They did not appreciate it
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whenever God sent flames and fireballs from the sky and blew
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their ass up in order to make another group of people out
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there happy. So is that what you want?
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I want you all to really think about that in modern times.
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When you say you want God to do something about evil, does that
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also include you? Who does that include?
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Your mother? Your father?
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Who do you want God to deal with?
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Who's the problem? And can that problem be resolved
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by you? Because, ladies and gentlemen,
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I'm going to finish the video with this.
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Just like God responded to the atheist.
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I gave you legs, I gave you arms, I gave you the mind and
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the consciousness and the soul. I gave you the power.
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You are the very thing that I created to make world better.
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Why didn't you?