Truth And Life Conference 2009
Living In A Broken World: Suffering In The Life Of A Believer
The Master’s College
Session 1: Seeing The Sovereignty Of God In Our Suffering
Dr. John MacArthur
Four Thoughts On Evil
- Evil Exists
- Natural Evil – Disasters
- Moral Evil – Personal
- Supernatural Evil – Demonic
- Eternal Evil – Hell
- God Exists
- God Is Sovereign
- God Rules Over Everything
- God Is Responsible For Everything
- God Wills Evil To Exist
- Process Theology
- Openness Theology
- Metaphysical Argument
- Autonomous Argument
- God Wills Evil For His Own Glory
- Romans 3:5
- Romans 5:8
- Romans 9:19-23
- Job 38-40
Best Rhetorical Question
Would you rather have a God that is trying to get a hold of evil or is already in control of evil?
Best Thoughts
1. The greats evil of all was perpetrated on Christ for the purpose of glorifying God.
2. When God came to earth in human form He could have chosen many ways to reveal His glory. Of all the methods He could have chosen, He chose compassion. He opened people’s ears to hear, He resorted people’s sight and He even raised them from the dead. God’s miracles were by nature compassionate.
All I can say is… WOW. Really? God desires evil? That is totally not Biblical. Those verses he gives in point 4 don’t support his statement at all.
It’s true that God can use evil to do good. But that does not mean he wills or desires evil.
Answer to the rhetorical: I can tell you that I do not want to have a God that delights in evil.
“I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.” Isaiah 45:7