There is an AGENDA!! | Special Reaction Episode || Cross Culture Podcast Ep .54

all right so I want to start by saying that empathetically looking at what she said right I can understand why she's annoyed and you know I've watched this video a couple of times this week and I'd been thinking of how to To react to it.

However, we have to set the right premise when we have conversations like this.

The fact that God is all powerful doesn't mean he will allow contradictions or will allow contradictions.

Logical, sorry.

The fact that God is all-powerful doesn't mean that His all-powerfulness will allow for logical contradictions.

What I mean is, God cannot, in the same sense, allow for the free will of mankind.

And in the same vein, allow or enforce choices on the free will of mankind.

He cannot do both because it is against his nature.

It's the reason we say things, for instance, like God cannot create a square circle because it is against his nature.

So God cannot do something that opposes his nature.

Now, hear what I'm not saying.

I'm not saying God cannot do anything.

I'm saying something is a logically flawed statement.

The reason I'm saying this is when people say, oh, God is all-powerful, God is all-loving, and therefore bad things shouldn't happen.

First, the reason you can think of something as being bad is because there is an objective moral law yeah yes there's an objective moral law that makes you see things right that are consistent with bad qualities i say this thing is bad but if there is an objective moral law and we then need to ask you who gives this law who is the law how did it come to be how did it come to be because if you are annoyed that something like this is very bad, then we have to ask you, by what standard? Because if you remove God from the equation, There's no other view that answers to the fact that in a materialistic and secular universe, there should be one objective standard.

Because, I mean, everyone can just go with what is their truth, what befits them or what works for them.

But the mere fact that you are annoyed at bandits killing people speaks to the fact that there is a moral law.

And if there is an objective moral law, it means there is also an objective moral lawgiver that is transcendent.

And by transcendent, that is beyond our limitations.

Now, the reason I'm emphasizing that it's beyond our limitations is that there are many things that happen to people here that we may not understand.

But that doesn't change the fact that God is still all-loving.

What I mean is because of our finite minds and limited minds, we can never really understand why God was present in the happening of things.

And then he seemingly allowed it.

By the way, the presence of God in the sufferings of men doesn't equate his agreements with the sufferings of men.

Just like when a parent sees a child, for instance.