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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today's Conversational and Backboard Theology is the final episode, the compelling caboose, |
0:14.2 | if you will, of our Sizzling Summer series called If God Is Perfectly Good, then Why did |
0:19.9 | Blank Happen? |
0:21.3 | The brilliant spiritual diamond we've been examining from all kinds of angles is Theodicy, |
0:28.7 | and by now I hope you remember that that word means the vindication of God's absolute |
0:35.1 | goodness and providence and view of the existence of physical and moral evil. |
0:39.8 | And this last facet we're going to gaze at today regarding Theodicy reflects our responsibility |
0:46.1 | as Christ's followers to pursue unity in this wildly diverse community called humanity. |
0:54.8 | Despite lots of Christians' comfort zones, homogeneity is not a characteristic of the |
1:00.3 | new covenant. |
1:01.3 | In fact, the every tribe and tongue part of John's glorious vision and revelation negates |
1:07.2 | our natural tendency toward tribalism. |
1:10.2 | Following Christ's ascension in the New Testament, it becomes increasingly clear that avoiding |
1:14.9 | our own version of Samaria is no longer an option nor is keeping our head in the proverbial |
1:20.2 | sand. |
1:21.3 | As Ali Wiesel soberly observed in his classic book Night, which recounts his experience |
1:27.6 | in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for |
1:33.0 | good men to do nothing. |
1:36.4 | That'll preach one thing. |
1:37.7 | Now since Ali's unpacking the very last of her boxes, as she'll be back next week, |
1:43.3 | my spiritual brother E.J. Gaines graciously agreed to guest host this last episode in |
1:48.4 | our summer series. |
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