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- Cliffe Knechtle has a great conversation with college students at a campus in the southwest US.
The "Give Me An Answer" ministry began as an outgrowth of the dialogues Cliffe Knechtle has had with students on various university campuses throughout the United States. These universities include the University of Maine, Harvard, MIT, University of Florida, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, University of California Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, Berkeley, Stanford, University of Hawaii and the University of Washington. Cliffe spoke on these campuses in front of the Student Union or Library at noon for five to ten minutes. At the close of his initial remarks, he'd open up the time for questions and answers, which usually turned into a two to four hour dialogue with students. His crowd size ranged from 25 - 500 students at a time, and between classes, new students would join the discussion. This was an extremely effective way to reach a large number of university students with the Gospel of Christ.
The reason we need Christ isn't to do good works ... it's to save us from the judgement we deserve.
exactly..Amen
Well said Amen.
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Yo this statement right here hits hard 👍 thank you for that
*EXACTLY!* We need Jesus Christ
because someday we all will die!
And face God's Holy & Righteous
Judgement for all of our sins...
*I NEED JESUS CHRIST WAY MORE*
*THAN THE AIR THAT I BREATHE !!*
My mother had cancer eight times and lived to be 86. I have been healed from illnesses that were acute and would kill me. God does intervene in the form of miracles but it is also a miracle that when we die we get to experience eternal life with God should we choose to.
I love all the young eyes and ears surrounding the conversation
Most are the kids that invited him there, but yes 👍
@@darkeen42please provide some examples from the many unedited videos you have seen so that we too can identify the "lies" and fraudulent claims. I do presume you have some since you claim there are many which I can only assume he is hiding since we do not see them on any of the videos he has posted, and he has posted many. I'm genuinely curious for if he is a liar and deceiver or con man then I think he should be exposed don't you?
@@darkeen42 Ah so no proof of some unedited videos that "deboonk" him, try again.
@@darkeen42 You apply your predjudice to that and assume its the truth, quite amusing.
@@darkeen42 Provide a single contradiction, oh you can't? That's what I thought.
Pain and suffering is a megaphone to wake up this deaf world
The man who sat down was all over the place, it didn't seem like he had a congruent coherent argument.
Love the first guy, he's so patience and respectful ❤️
God doesn’t only help us by healing us in the way some see healing. He provides beautiful things all around us, even through suffering. We just have to be willing to see it.
Why do we only call Your name when there’s no one else to call?
And we only really seek You when our mighty towers fall
Why do we say You’ve failed us and You’ve turned Your eyes away
When we’re only sleeping in the bed we made?
Why do we call for free will, but reject all consequence?
Why’s the path we’ve made to Heaven stained with the blood of innocence?
Why’d we ignore the warnings that we’ve read and always known
And get angry when we reap the things we’ve sown?
So we blame You
‘Cause our world’s not come out right
While the devil’s masquerading
As an angel of the light
Just imagine
All the pride and all the nerve
To ask where You’ve been, when we’re the ones we serve
It’s not a mystery, it’s been foretold
But we ignored the warning bell so long ago
There’s a way that seems right unto men, but we’ll die with the wages of sin
As the world lies bleeding
The giant is no longer sleeping
Poisoned harvest reaping
Blindly we just carry on, but the glory is gone
Gone
We live our lives like we could care less what You have to say
Then curse the skies when You don’t come clean up the ugly mess we’ve made
But You gave us a choice and we made it and dug ourselves into a hole
We always thought we knew the way despite the things You said
We just ignored the pile of bodies and the bloodstains on the bed
Painting ourselves right into a corner as life spiraled out of control
As the world lies bleeding
The giant is no longer sleeping
All we’ve sown now reaping
Blindly we just carry on, but the glory is gone
See us - Our promised land of milk and honey
Became a land of filth and money
Like Babylon and Rome before
A land of greed and sin and guilt, a stained and scarlet whore
See us - Living in our ivory towers
Self-appointed kings with no power
Built a monument to man
We’re passing down empty decrees like a disease across the land
[Solo: Val]
This is the system we’ve created
This is the world so devastated
This is what it looks like when mankind asks You to just leave us alone
This is the monster now awakened
This is our legacy creation
This is the place we end up when we say that we can do this on our own
This is our masterpiece: corruption
This is our monument: destruction
Game point of life and death, the nadir of existence painted black
This is the road the Hell we’ve wandered
This is inheritance we’ve squandered
So raise a glass to all we’ve lost and wonder if we’ll ever get it back
Nations calling “Our will be done, mankind answers to no one”
But now it has begun - In death, our sin hath borne a son
Please forgive us for we’ve only made it worse
Even after You had warned us
Sin would only bring a curse
Guess we knew better so we went a different way
Now we’re only sleeping in the bed we made
All the glory and the power left this place
When we turned our backs upon You
And chose to live in our disgrace
But You warned us
And You let us have our way
Now we’re only drowning in the mess we made
Blood on our hands
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That blonde kid is incredibly smart and critical. Tough question indeed.
In a way yes, but he mostly restated the same question different ways to get the same answer. Which was great because the answer was always consistent no matter which way he put it.
Sometimes its frustrating when discussions are cut short. I really wanted to see how the discussion followed through with the guy on the ground.
I agree it does suck when discussions get cut so abruptly
same here!
Coming back to this after 8 years, it is astounding to watch the decline of articulate, thoughtful students. A world led by feelings vs a world still grappling with the idea of true knowledge.
Props to the campus Director who allows them to come and speak to the students.
Thank you for your videos Cliff. As a Christian struggling with his faith, I find your videos inspirational.
You just know the second guy thinks his achieved intergalactic oneness
@Jakob Dwayne
Bro seriously, stop spamming. That goes for your second account too
@Fisher Darius Projecting your insecurities led to play off others & masking selling fear as help attracting the like against things out of your control is?
@Jakob Dwayne Bots or paid salesman teaming exactly the same on many varieties of videos = SCUMBAGS/Tools
“And what he knows, he does know, because he knows it.”
Not circular at all 😀
"and what I know, I do know, because I know it". 😂
"I do not come to try to disprove this man." lie. "you have no right to say he is wrong" contradiction. That guy was absurd.
Cliffe, I think you’re truly one of the best human beings I have ever seen in my life. Seeing you help these kids understand your path is very beautiful and you will have my respect for that. I hope to meet you one day in person. God bless you! ❤️
And I will admit that when sometimes I need a answer from God I get antsy and complain. I am still working on it but I get happy to see people being calm, Like Cliffe and the other two young men. People like that inspire me. God bless, IFollowGod.
God bless you Cliff!!
I enjoyed these two men that debated Cliffe today. They had very good questions and had very good manners, they both stayed calm and listened. I feel grateful that there are people like that who listen and do not shout or complain, it makes me happy to see people like that. Now I am not saying that people that shout and complain are bad, (I might have to make this two parts.) They might just be, well needing a answer.
That first kid was very intelligent
No pain no gain suffering can be beneficial.
Suffering has a purpose in this earth.
"What he knows, he knows, because he knows it. But also. What I know, I know, because I know it."
So there you have it, folks. What we know, we know, because we know it . . . wait . . . what?
I just noticed that after reading your comment, that was a great amount of circular reasoning he just did, lol. It'll be alright though. As in the book of Romans says, "Claiming to be wise, they became fools."
Exactly. We seem to be seeing a lot of that these days.
John Batts You have rightfully said so, I have Christians engage unbelievers, I see a lot of absurd things come out of their mouths, the mouths of unbelievers.
Unfortunately, I hear a lot of absurd things out of the mouths of believers, too. Doctrine is sadly lacking in much of the American church. It's no wonder unbelievers have a hard time embracing truth when it's presented so poorly.
OK, I hope my thoughts on this question on the omnipitence and benevolence of God can help someone understand it.
1.) If you are talking about human evil, God will not take away your free will and will allow you to commit sin and cause evil and suffering.
2.) On to natural evils, I feel here that I should state that I believe God can cause "suffering," meaning that He can cause pain (mental, physical, emotional, etc.). Now, suffering can be broken into two categories: suffering that does not end in death and suffering that does not end in death. For the former, I reference St. Paul in that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. In short, good comes from this type of pain, and God can use any tool, earthquakes, cancer, car accidents, a breakup, to accomplish. On the other hand, there is pain that ends in death, and this is actually the easy one. In death we will be united with God. Only if our physical bodies die can we go to Paradise and fulfill our life's mission. In heaven we will be united with God in truth, and there is no greater joy than this. Basically, death is a blessing.
I have thought about making a series of videos to answer questions such as these for a while, does anyone think I should? I hope this helped someone understand and if it did, Hallelujah! God bless.
so basically god maintains absolute benevolence because suffering isnt actually bad like we thought, its actually good because it makes you stronger or good because death is good. Ill ignore why thats silly by just bringing about a third option of suffering through which god cannot possibly maintain absolute benevolence: What about suffering that breaks a man's mind, the transforms his consciousness into a mass of despair and fixations and renders him not only useless to himself but to the world, all while instilling in him permanent sadness and anger? what would be the good of that? For example, an earthquake kills a boys family and he nearly starves to death, while all of his limbs become infected and must be removed when he is saved. He is now broken and without hope, confused and alone, emotionally paralyzed and will suffer until he dies. Can you tell me why? more importantly, can you tell me how a god that either does or allows this is still benevolent and omnipotent? The answer i dont know simply means that a god cannot be omnipotent and benevolent and still do this.
Derbert M'Chingstape You have failed to provide evidence for your silly and incorrect assertion
that God could somehow not be omnipotent and benevolent: In fact, he is.
So what your saying is god doesn’t love you like a father. So he just a force that’s it he don’t help us in any way really. At this point god is gone if u want to believe that he takes a step back everytime someone sins he’s so out of the picture that he doesn’t actually benifit us anymore.
First of all, stand up!!!!!!!!
Love your end talks. So amazing..you are an amazing man of God. Blessings from New Zealand.
The guy with his own intro speech needs Jesus
Knowing God, His will and purpose for our lives allows us to operate and live in a manner that pleases God and causes us to be fruitful in everything we do.
ok, keep trusting yourself and see how far you get
It's amazing how that second guy set down the talk seems to me he had all the answers why talk to Cliff?
Beneath his peaceful stance was anger.
@@dogelife7901 yeah he's pretending hard!!
I don't see that I've commented on this before. For anybody that has a question similar to this guy @19:54, here is how I would answer:
Why is it that we tell children that playing in the road is dangerous? Because it is dangerous! Does it matter, as far as making it dangerous or not, whether they worship us? No! If Jesus exists, and is the Son of God, then, even if you don't believe in Him, there will be consequences to your actions and beliefs. Why say that people are wrong? If they are wrong, then we need to tell them that they are wrong if there is danger involved.
On a related note, you can be a good person without belief in Jesus, or God, but you cannot be a good person without the existence of God. If God does not exist, then all morality is is a fancy, whether personal or societal. Nothing is really right and nothing really wrong. Sure, something may be good or bad for achieving a goal, like growing a head of lettuce or causing humans to flourish, but does that mean that growing a head of lettuce or causing humans to flourish is a good thing? No! Why wouldn't the universe be just as well off without humans? The planet might stick around longer. Less ants would die from being stepped on. One might say that the eco-system needs humans. Not an eco-system that has no life. Why isn't it better to bring about an eco-system which has no life? It is just evolution-induced bias. We have evolved to think that we are important; therefore, we believe that we are important. Are we really? Without the existence of God, then I don't see why we are.
@@JohnSmith-db2wl I didn't argue either for or from (in case that's what you meant) ignorance. I neither encouraged ignorance nor argued that because God's existence has not been disproven, therefore, God exists.
@@JohnSmith-db2wl Did you see me claim that God exists?
@@JohnSmith-db2wl I did answer. Since you didn't answer my question, in which case my answer would have been easier to understand, I'll answer more forthrightly. No, I did not make any such claim; otherwise, you would be able to locate it by reading my replies. Why do I need to answer a question which has such an obvious answer? I guess that it may have something to do with the fact that your first reply to me didn't have any substance to it, and now you are grasping at straws, but I may be wrong.
this is a big reason why we need theology taught in public schools. People need to be educated about the attributes and character of GOD. People criticize the character of GOD they do not understand because they have had predominantly secular sources and the limits of their own reasoning to develop their theology. You cannot separate one of GOD's characteristics from the others and say, "This is what GOD is like!" You essentially build your own straw man arguments. GOD is love, but HE will manifest wrath. GOD is merciful, but HE must be just and make good judgments. GOD is powerful, but so powerful HE can limit HIS power. GOD is faithful, but HE must allow us to see how life is because we choose to be unfaithful. I hated education, but that decreased the more I understood the value and purpose of being educated.
Separation of church and state
@@dookiebrains3824 a meaningless philosophical opinion with no basis in constitutional authority that cannot be rationally or coherently defended.
At last some people who are respectful and have a civilized conversation and not yelling . Good video Cliffe . That was funny when the guy was clapping alone lol
His ways are above ours. He knows better than we do. Who's to say the child suffering from cancer isn't getting off easy. We are all born for a purpose and when that purpose is fulfilled He calls us home. Those purposes come from God. Life has shown me that from the ashes of despair comes an outpouring of love from many who wouldn't in normal circumstances show their love. Horrible situations seem to give us enough clarity to understand the important things in life and spurn us to love each other , just like Jesus tells us. Great things are accomplished when a group is confronted with a common enemy such as earthquakes or sicknesses. I've seen cancer survivors called to a better more productive life because of the outpouring of love they got when they were sick. One might argue that the survivor is lucky to have gotten to experience the outpouring of love because of the calamity that had befallen them. If all we have is the here and now and there is no God then , yes , it sucks. If paradise awaits then it's just part of the journey.
Love these videos. Thank you Cliffe! God bless you
A beautiful tree isn’t a work of man. When we depend completely on ourselves then that’s where our focus will be…on ourselves and we become very selfish. Many think that’s ok.
John 1:10 "He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and yet the world did not know Him."
This was an incredible episode. I feel like the second guy tried his best to being a list of gotcha questions though, as well as some intellectual sounding opening statements that weren’t that intellectual. “You know what you know because you know it, I know what I know because I know it” for instance.
Very good debate. But would also add at that when Jesus said, "My God, why hast thou forsaken me". He was quoting Psalms 22:1. Even while Christ was being crucified HE pointed to HIS written word so even Torah scholars would believe that He was Christ and Lord. These words were written 1000 years before Christ ever appeared and to fulfill the scriptures.
When you experience pain and suffering or sickness can not be cure, you in your somewhere out there I know there is a God
That was an excellent first question
God does often intervene but he is a covenant keeping God. There is other Force at work.
These discussions are interesting
to me it's a matter of whether one has an eternal perspective vs the short life we have
I was hopping he would hit on that as well. But the alternate side is that doesn't necessarily help anyone right now, and to the unbeliever there is no "eternity" so its a moot point.
Here's the thing, he's probably used that before and found there are better arguments. Open debate is like a tennis match between friends, you want to volley the answer back rather than shut down your opponent so they quit...
"why doesn't god help the kid with cancer?"
So how many times have you gone to the children's cancer ward and read a story to them?
That's a great point. We judge God for not doing anything. Yet most of us wont act on what we are capable of.
@@MomentumCanada365 people dont realize god gave us each other. It's all throughout the scriptures. The creation of eve was the first instance of this. God knew adam would need someone and he gave him another. Earthquakes happen so go volunteer and help rebuild, help feed and clothe and so on. Atheist say god is evil for doing nothing, then they do nothing.
Lol I don’t love some random kid did I make him? When did I ever claim I love all children nah Jesus claimed that but he don’t even help them out when he got the power to do so.
@@Samuel-tq9jx you will never comprehend omnipresent theology, when you're to stupid to grammatically structure a simple sentence.
Dude the hospital and the parents are gonna be like don't bother our kids gtfooh!
9:20
Because he''s waiting for His believers to intervene.
Believers will lay hands on the sick and the shall recover. Mark 16:18
If His believers intervened, a stronger relationship with God blossoms, if God does everything, it doesn't.
The question the gentleman had around 9:20, Cliff may not fully understand this but God absolutely does intervene in people's sicknesses and afflictions but that intervention happens through US.
Matthew 10:5-8. In verse 8 Jesus commands his disciples "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay." In other words Jesus commands US to heal the sick. Christians have been given the indwelling Holy Spirit, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us. We can and should be healing, cleansing and casting out demons. It is an active ministry, the Kingdom of God. People remain afflicted with cancers and the rest because very few of us are doing our part to see the sick healed.
I have held legs where one was shorter than the other and watched it lengthen in my hands, I have seen a man who was confined to a wheelchair for 6months get up and walk. Another woman in a power chair who knew Jesus heals but never experienced it in her own life, she got up and ran loudly praising the Lord, and I have casted demons from a woman immediately after her baptism. These are just a few examples but Jesus heals and we are the facilitators of that healing. Not everyone I pray for experiences a healing and I don't know why. Sometimes God wants their heart first, that's one thing I noticed but I don't know why he does instant healings for some and not others. There are times when people are better the next day, sometimes weeks. It's not all cut and dry but God absolutely does intervene, and according to scripture, he chooses to do so through us. We are carriers of and temples of his Holy Spirit.
Thank you!
Even as a Christian, presentations like this stirs me to ask; How can we know just what to believe?
The evidence lol.
Genesis 3 gives the answer: Humanity acquired the knowledge of good and evil; now there will be suffering and death as well as pleasure and love. This knowledge is essential for the appreciation of what is good. Without that contrast, good is not known as good. Without appreciation of good, ultimately, no one would know the goodness of God, even while in heaven.
Second guy was like "we have gifts". Yea dude but who give you that gifts? And second point don't say "we" and putting me with you in same bracket. Next time say "I have gifts"
Props the student who was carrying a very difficult question because those are questions God did not choose to answer and we can only assume based on God's character, while at the same time very intellectually respectful asking to actually get an answer. Hope this conversations helped him be wiser and hopefully led to a spirit-filled life
Cliffe, I think you should elaborate further on FAITH being the most important element that bridges the gap between sound logic and mystery. I saw you did that around the 16:00 mark, and I know that approach may be a quick way to shut down conversation... but there are often moments in the episodes when people ask "Why?" and "How?", moments when you offer the great "I. Do. Not. Know." quote, when it would be beneficial to elaborate a little more on faith in Jesus for eternal life and salvation.
I believe God allows natural disasters like earthquakes to show us the fact that this is a fallen and corrupted creation which happened as a result of man's rebellion, it shows the severity of rebellion and a call to return to God, it shows man's absolute helplessness towards things like that and motivate us to reach out to a power greater than ourselves, and as for this present fallen creation, only God has the solution, the Book of Revelation says that this fallen creation will pass away and God will create a New Heaven and a New Earth, a brand new creation where there is no suffering, no tears, no earthquakes, no death, but it's up to us whether or not we want to be part of God’s new creation or spend eternity apart from God, time is running out, return to God before it's too late, this is the time of Salvation.
This boy cannot accept the thought that God is not human and does not perceive death and suffering the same way we do. As Frank Turek said, God sees everything and sometimes something good comes out of a bad situation in the end. Let me give you an example. I once didn't care about God. I kept failing in life until my wife got pancreatic cancer and had no option of surgery. The diagnosis she received was a maximum of 4 months to live. Then, for the first time in a long time, I sincerely asked God for help. Well, it turned out that there is some therapy. My wife agreed to it, then she became pregnant for the second time. Then she had two surgeries and today more than two years have passed since then and not only did she not die, but her condition was not life-threatening. Later there were more such signs and now I am slowly starting to return to God. It is not easy for me, but with God's help I am trying to overcome my weaknesses. It is true that the moment we begin to reconcile with God, pray and listen to his voice, Satan loses his power over us. Eternal glory to the Lord Jesus, God the Father and the Holy Spirit.
In the beginning God gave mankind a choice to obey or to disobey. Obedience leads to life disobedience leads to death and decay. God gave man the diet meant to keep him healthy organic plant base whole foods man has strayed from this diet and has also polluted the earth which is the cause of much sickness and disease I my self had leukemia twice on both occasions I should have died but miraculously I survived. I prayed and submitted my life to God and God intervened in both occasions and allowed me to survive so yes God does intervene in our lives when we ask and when it suits his purpose now I witness of God mercy towards mankind in the message of the gospel of Christ to make know the path to repentance and remission of sin that brings a person back into a relationship with God. Jesus taught I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by me. The choice is yours obedience unto righteousness and eternal life or disobedience unto eternal death.
God ,is sovereign young man, he heals whomever he wills; and he let others die. Whatever he decides, he is still a benevolent, and totally just.
Great job Cliffe!
One thing I think could have been mentioned when the 2nd guy asked "why do we need Jesus?"We need Jesus because He is the cure for humanity's problem. We are all headed for death and Jesus said He is the way the truth and the Life! He's the Life we so desperately need🙏🏽 we lost God's life in the garden remember? The day they eat of the tree they will die. It was seperation from God, aka spiritual death
Love you all in Christ! I love this channel
The BIG problem that the first person isn't understanding is that Cliff doesn't see death here on earth as the end, and it is obvious that the first guy does.
Regarding the question/argument: "Why does an all powerful, loving God not help the boy who has cancer?"
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Several interesting points on this:
1) God does help that person. Not in this life, but in the next life. Cliff touched on this, but the questioner glossed over it. The boy who trusts in Jesus Christ will receive a new, perfectly healthy body that will last for eternity.
2) If one demands that God "help" everyone who gets cancer by making it go away (or preventing it from ever happening), then should he not also "help" everyone who gets sick, injured, or experiences loss of some kind? Okay, let's say he does what people ask him to do. Now.... how do we deal with starvation once our population explodes because no one is dying any more? How many demands does a person get to make of God to fix every negative life happenstance before acknowledging what they really want is a helicopter mommy who spoils them rotten? Sounds more like a genie in a lamp than a mature, loving relationship.
3) What is the atheists solution to the problem of a boy dying of cancer? "Sucks to be you" is all they have. The boy dies. Done. There is no justice for the evil event that took his life. There is no reason why his life ending when it did is unjust at all. In fact, the atheist must admit that when nature calls your numbers, that's just the way it is. The Earth doesn't owe us 1 second of life, much less 80-100 years. A tornado, hurricane, or tsunami kill you? Oh well. Such is life and death. Sucks to be you.
If I did not believe in God, it would be very hard to get out of bed in the morning. No ultimate purpose other than to suck wind for somewhere between 1-101 years and then blink out to be forgotten except some bored person 100 years from now might find an old meme I posted floating around.... No justice, no comfort, no nothing....just endless oblivion of which I am unaware.
Ecclesiastes 3:2 gives me comfort at the death of my loved ones.
Amen. Those are powerful and beautiful verses.
God is not your servant -- you are his servant.
Please pray my sister paloma she having heart problems that makes her faint she needs prayers
The answer to his question is that there is an enemy behind all destruction and it is the devil that comes to destroy and kill. Hold yourself to God and he will deliver you.
You're absolutely right, is a cure but the enemy is withholding it.
4:50 hey that guy with the beanie is the guy from episode #613
The first college student did not actually get a good answer...OUTSIDE of I do not know, which is a valid answer. There is no answer.
God has made all things, and set all things to happen just as they do happen today, there is no way around that. Accepting it is alot easier that asking why Gods allowed to do what he wants. He has done it out of his own divine will, the only true free will is God's.
This first kid is coming whint some good questions you have to really have the spirit of God to answer his questions
Idk if it’s relevant, but in regards to innocent babies and children suffering and dying, I know of many people, both Christian and non, having near death experiences and going to heaven, and seeing babies, children, and even mentally disadvantaged people in heaven. When I say mentally disadvantaged, I don’t know the details, but they were mentally disadvantaged during their time in earth, but in heaven they are at full capacity and aren’t hindered by what their physical bodies suffered. And for the case of children/babies, they’re going back to the Father in heaven anyways. So the argument can be made as to why didn’t people pray for the child’s salvation via a medical miracle so that they may live? God could have easily acquiesced to that prayer. And if they still died anyways, if they were young enough to still be considered fully innocent, God would have taken them back to heaven. It all makes perfect sense and fits the criteria of an Omnibenevolent God.
God works through us and our faith decides how much we allow God to work through us. As Jesus states multiple times.
It’s about Jesus. It’s relationship, not religion.
The reason bad things happen is because all of creation is under a curse from God because of mankinds rebellion against God. The fall of mankind from the Garden when we tried to literally become like God. Even still God made a way to repair the relationship with us. HE IS AMAZING.
13:45 wowww he got into college? Must be on affirmative action!! I know what I know because I know it” wowww
Good
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
I just heard something today about works you are saved to do good works
We are not saved to do good works. Many think we have to do good works to be saved and they struggle with working hard enough and being good enough all their life. The truth is we cannot be good enough.
God’s saving grace is a complete gift to us. We have to make the decision to accept it. We have to believe in Him. We have to believe God sent his son, Jesus to live as a man, and to suffer and die on the cross for us to save us from our son. There is absolutely nothing we can do but accept and believe in him.
Once we do that, we should love him so much and want to put on his character. We are made in Christ’s image. He made us to glorify him! Isn’t that beautiful!!!! This is where people get confused about works I believe. When we put on God’s character because we are created in his image, we want to serve him. In doing so, we will serve others. We will love others well. We will be more active in our families, in our churches, in our communities, at work, etc. I hope this helps.
Our understanding is thousand steps behind Gods understanding. If God let the child died on Cancer we do not know but what we know God let it happen but we don't have to worry cause children are from heaven and maybe God let that child died early because in the future that child might be lost or suffer more. God sees it and we can't we are not more merciful than the Father nor know the beginning and end.
Maybe God doesn't stop things like cancer because He has decided it's time for that person to come home. We tend to make a huge deal of our suffering in the world in our flesh and then take little note of the afterlife with Jesus Christ. It is a blessing to pass on.
Hey, this was recorded on the same day as #0613
The date for this video is June 30, 2013. I did not check out the date of the other video you're referring to, however, this is the day it was downloaded and not the date of the actual recording. The actual recording date would be somewhere in the body of the information they were providing. But I did not see it in there.
Things happen in this world because the world was created and then left to run its course. People are ready to blame God for every sickness and death but if God was to help in every case and in every scenario, nobody would seek God. We would become used to it and become arrogant and not learn anything in life. People forget that terrible things happened when Jesus walked the Earth. People have to stop looking at life on Earth as the last stop!! If a child dies you don't think he or she is welcomed in heaven where he or she will be in the land of complete perfection? The way I see it, this world is going down fast and people who have left are the lucky ones in the grand scheme of things. Stop thinking that death is the last stop. Jesus said let the dead bury the dead. He had souls to save. Death will always be around.
Truth Warrior so are you saying God causes no sickness?
I wanted to see the rest of this
He does intervean , just not for everyone
You know I think a lot of these sort of discussions could be helped is if we make it clear that satan has control of earth at the moment and he is getting frantic because he knows his time is short. Solves a lot of mysteries for me.
The first was articulate in his thoughts but the bigger question is got to ask is, not if God intervenes in suffering, but if there is a God at all. If there isn't suffering wins! If there is a God, suffering ultimately loses along with evil...The second guy asked why do I need to my faith in Jesus when I can still be a good guy without him. Its true you can, but at times you are not a good guy, all of us do that which is evil. You and everyone in the world needs the saviour of the sin we commit
if you believe God is all knowing, then it is possible that He knows why He act that way? Should I trust your opinion that God should act your way or to trust an all knowing God?
The real answer to that young man's question (natural evil, cancer on young ones) WAS absolutely answered by Christ. But it's not one we want to hear.
It's quite unpleasant to be quite honest.
In John chapter 3
Jesus has a conversation with Nicodemus and says,
"14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 so that everyone who [e]believes will have eternal life in Him."
This is a "throw back" to when the Israelites were being judge for one of their many grumblings.
But in order to not be under judgement they had you behold the Bronze Serpent in order to be saved from the sting of the serpents sting.
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. "
Here Jesus continues to mete out the claim that the "World" is a state of peril.
"17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him."
Now, here is the kicker.
"18 The one who believes in Him is not JUDGED; the one who does not believe has been JUDGED already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the JUDGMENT, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil."
The World is already under Judgement.
All cancer, disease, 'natural evil' etc. is a direct result of this world being under Judgement. That's why it was imperative that Christ would pay for our sin, because our Judgment was like a thick layer of dark clouds about to shower down our payment. But Christ died for us and became our 'umbrella' from sin that if we place ourselves under his protective cover.
This may not be the right perspective. But what if those who we believe shouldn't have died so early are but an example to us, that life is precious. We don't like suffering but do some of us help alleviate or cause suffering to others. We seem to believe that it's terrible a child has died, but the elderly well it's their time to die.
Not sure about the suffering God? where does it say that in the bible?
Ive heard bro Eli answer this first question really well based on bible. If God causes it to earthquake and thousands died you can't complain about it cause God gives and takes and everything belongs to him.
Yes, we do not have the gift of 'create'. We are given the gift to 'manipulate' and 'use'. Even the law of physics say so. :-)
I think we have say that somehow God reckons in His great reckoning that all the suffering caused by Satan is somehow worth it, otherwise He would have prevented it.
But if He did prevent it, it would not have been possible for us to become these new creatures in Christ, who become adopted by God.
However we could not have become these new creatures, without first becoming tempted and then subsequently being redeemed by Jesus Christ.
And whilst we are grateful and pleased to be these creatures made in God’s image, copies of God, adopted by Him, nevertheless, it’s completely apparent that we cannot grasp the magnitude of what we are yet to be.
For if we could understand the greatness of what we are yet to be, it might be understood why God deems the trade off, of Himself in the form of Jesus Christ nailed to a tree, along with mankind’s suffering, as being worthwhile.
I think where the first guy is missing the point, and by the way he has great questions, but I think his hangup is being focused on this life now. As Christians we can see the suffering in this life, even the suffering of "good" Christians and know that after death there is more, there is eternal life without suffering. An Atheist only has this life to look forward to and so only sees suffering and eventually death and it's over, nothing more.
Two things can happen to the sick child. 1 God can choose to do a miracle & heal.2 The child will be in heaven with his creator.
He comes when we call him. Look at those passages. But every debt must be paid. This may help this argument.
Because we live in a fallen creation!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
The child with the long hair and the goatee imagines that he's a good speaker and that what he says makes some sense, but neither is the case. He imagines that he's making valid points and influencing people's opinions in a way that makes them agree with his point of view, but neither is the case.
The first young man set up a logical fallacy of a false dichotomy & he kept committing that fallacy. Wanting something bad to happen and allowing it to happen are not the same thing. There are many options and if people are given free will (the requirement of the ability to love) people might not choose the best path to the end result that God absolutely will make happen.
Judging God's actions based on our very limited perspective falsely makes God as limited as we are. The ultimate solution has already been explained, all the evil & good will be separated & rewarded in the end.
Why would God not stop one seemingly bad thing? The ultimate result is much better than we small minded limited humans can see. Children scream about not getting candy for every meal but good parents do it because it is better in the long term.
there is a measure of suffering for everyone of us..until this cup is not filled no "good" can happen..suffering is a means to start dealing with life in a deeper sense..isnt God causing this? Of course HE is! He causes suffering to happen same as He causes happines to happen.. He is the cause for all evil and for all good..What people must understand to stop blaming God is that to cause something and to want something is not the same!..there is a diffeerence! All the creation must follow God..Why? Because nothing or noone but Him CAN be followed..all follow Him with our being but few follow him with by the will. ..If I have an accident I either cause the accident (that means my will is active) Or I have an accident Without my will being active (God causes accidents in the whole universe like this!) but still the accident happened because of ME because of my BEING not my WANTING it..we must not blame God for BEING the way He is!..and mix His Being with His will..morality can be joined only to Will..Does that mean that God is devided in Himself? no! Thats the way He is and the creation only follows this fact..its an unchangable fact and it makes perfect sense both in the kingdom of evil and the kingdom of good..believe in his being as muchas his will!..just dont mix these two and you will have the understanding that you need..suffering shows us where we go against God..that is to say against His being AND His will..if we acknowledge His being we will accept His will..because His will and His being are ONE..there is more to say about this..but who is willing to listen?....