Clay Jones Why God Allows Evil

[@nsanjaisaac3276]

It great lesson! That needed to be explained and now we can understand it

[@michellevanzyl]

This is just absolutely brilliant!

[@nsanjaisaac3276]

All in all, God allows everything to happen for His glory to be seen and know!

[@jimfarnell5813]

Rather than, being a sobering downer for me, I find this message to be encouraging, uplifting & exciting… how, via Yeshua, I am rescued by the Prince of Peace, I can overcome my utter depravity, worship Him against all tribulation and look forward to the blessed hope (confident expectation) of eternal life (the main event)…

[@halaleu3000]

It is a good lesson to enjoy and thank you Jones for your commitment to teach word of Living God

[@thegospelmeetslife.2021]

FINALLY, someone says it like it is. Praise the LORD!

[@Hebrandel]

Thank you! Excellent exegesis. Many people who think of themselves as Christians do not accept everyone is a son or daughter of Adam and Eve and therefore a born sinner with a sinful nature. Many try to earn their way by good deeds. I think they do that because they don't appreciate that it is impossible for just and perfect God to be in the presence of any sin whatsoever. The only way God our creator can be near us is through His grace of allowing us to trust in Jesus Christ.

[@tammy5926]

This was excellent.

[@nsanjaisaac3276]

Great the finest hour is very difficult and the same time sweet because it draws you to God

[@chiomajeremiah4721]

Oh wow! Oh wow! Glory to God!!

[@Cultwatch123]

A very sobering lecture

[@ChinazomAda]

Great lesson to learn from. Thank you so much for putting this great piece together 🙏

[@ChinazomAda]

God bless and increase you richly 🙏

[@kennorthunder2428]

What if the purpose of God allowing evil to happen in this world is to put himself through a stress test at both his and our expense? (Where his implacable goodness and his perfect love are put at odds with one another - but gets reconciled through himself) ( I actually like the idea that the reason God allows evil is to allow us to understand his goodness better)

[@Jamie-Russell-CME]

@TREX LEX Jesus said it best. He did things and communicated in such a way that you have to actually pay attention to get it. Hint, the smoke of burnt sacrifice represents the prayers of the true repentant who give great sacrifice to show Gid they take His law serious. It's not that it means God enjoys the smell like you and your flatulence. It's what it represents which pleases God. The Israelites journey from Egypt to the Promised land is a type to the believers of the last act before God finalizes His story and sets the captives free. Come to the cross and truly live forever or reject Him and go ahead and perish in your sin. You will be resurrected to be judged. Some to everlasting life and some to the second death, which will be final. Dead forever.

[@willettej7988]

Huh? Maybe you don’t get it

[@kennorthunder2428]

@@willettej7988 Please be precise with regards to whom you're addressing? You're leaving us "hanging". "You don't get" implies that you do get, or, that I haven't presented the case well enough that the dots didn't connect in a logical fashion. What precisely do you get?

[@poppypalais3108]

He'd make a fine politician. The ability to talk for over an hour without answering the single question that was the topic, first class!

[@willettej7988]

Perhaps the answer I heard was something you simply are not ready to hear. It was a lecture, not a press conference.

[@poppypalais3108]

@@willettej7988 It was a lecture that said nothing. But, I'm sure for some it has the same effect as a placebo, so best wishes.

[@erepsekahs]

😘Thank you for being a Christian. Christianity is the Way, the Light, and the life. Recent World events prove what happens when The Devil seizes the minds and the spirit of other humans. If you want to get good people to do terrible things then you will need The Devil masquerading as a god.

[@willettej7988]

When I became a Christian, I realized exactly how sinful I had been.

[@tammy5926]

Me too. It's amazing how many of us think we are good people.

[@AncientttimeZ]

Let me help you in more depth about WHY God allows EVIL. Jesus said God "alone" is GOOD! That is because God alone always knew exactly what GOOD is. EVIL is the necessary defining factor on exactly what GOOD truly is. "KNOWLEDGE" is the key here. ONLY God knows EVERYTHING. Remember Jesus does not know everything. That is why Jesus said God "alone" is GOOD. The fall of man was not an accident. Acts 15:18 "ALL of God's works are known to Him from the beginning of the world." That means God already knew man would fall. Job 42:2 "I know You can do ALL things and NO purpose of Yours can be thwarted." That means when Lucifer fooled Eve into eating from the tree, that did NOT thwart any purpose of God's! God could have cast Lucifer anywhere but He cast him to the same planet He was creating man on. WHY? Because Lucifer was the ingredient needed to ensure the fall. Lucifer did not do anything that God did not already know he would do. God alone is good because of His ALL KNOWING "knowledge." This is WHY the forbidden tree's name was the "tree of the 'KNOWLEDGE' of good and evil." God is teaching ALL of His creations exactly what Good is so all of His creations may become GOOD! When God's Grand Plan is completed we will all know exactly what GOOD is as God knows it. We will all know what EVIL is as God knows it. This experience is demonstrating just how much God loves us, that is why our lives are so short. We just do not realize this yet, but we will when it is all over and done with after the last thousand years are completed and Death and Hades are thrown into the Lake of Fire. We are learning this evil thing in an up close in our face lesson so we know it 100%. God is still in the midst of creating us. He is actually refining us, or in essence He is giving all of us our VACINATION against EVIL! "MAN" is God's greatest creation but not as taught in the world today that it's because man was made in the image of God, but rather... MAN is His greatest creation because of what God will achieve "through" MAN. MAN is the tool in which God will make the NONEXISTENCE of EVIL to become ABSOLUTE! A prayer filled with the wisdom of thanks that covers why we are here. -- "Ancien† †imeZ" -- "Thank You my Father in Heaven for this GREAT opportunity that You have bestowed upon each and every one of us here on Earth living a life separated from You. Directly from what You have set before us in our lives here on Earth, those of us who truly are paying attention have now come to realize and know the reasons "WHY" You are allowing all things other than GOOD to exist. It is so that we may learn what life is truly like without You before You reward us with living life in Eternity with You! This way what the EVIL ONE has done will never again be repeated. Thank You God, You are so wise and filled with PURE LOVE and COMPASSION. When we meet You in Heaven after You've given us our new perfect bodies with PERFECT self-control, that together with this GREAT LESSON learned here on Earth as we live our lives separated from You and Your perfect and righteous ways, evil will never exist again. We are so thankful for Your infinite wisdom in all You are doing. We know that You gave perfect bodies to Adam and Eve, Lucifer and all the other Angels that followed him. In Your perfect and magnificent mind You already knew that because of the FREE WILL that You give to all, a “PERFECT” body was in no way enough. You knew all along that one day a GREAT LESSON would have to be taught. YOU alone know everything and all Your creations do not! We thank You for showing us Your GREAT LOVE that You have for us by allowing us to experience EVIL, which is all things opposite of who You are and stand for. We now know and understand that You have ALLOWED all of this out of Your great never ending LOVE for us and all of Your other creations everywhere so ALL may learn this GREAT LESSON that You set into motion six days ago (that is six of Your days [6,000 years to man]). Now we have but one day left (1,000 years) until it is finished. We are so happy and thankful that the ultimate end result of Your GRAND PLAN to do away with EVIL completely will become reality everywhere! The result of You taking this time (7 days out of ETERNITY) to teach and refine us all, pure goodness will be instilled into the heart, mind and soul of every single being that lives throughout ETERNITY with You. All thanks to You for taking this small time-out from ETERNITY to allow ALL of Your creations to learn what You already know! This TIME You have taken will perfect Your greatest achievement, and the NON-existence of EVIL will become "ABSOLUTE"! We love You with all of our hearts, minds, bodies and souls. In Jesus name we all pray. “AMEN”!!! Why does God allow us to suffer--> That is WHY we are here. To experience and learn about both GOOD and EVIL! That is why the tree was called the "Tree of "KNOWLEDGE" of good and evil." God is perfect and good. Everything He creates is perfect. However, God loves all so much that He gives a FREE WILL. God knew all along there would one day need to tie up a loose end. There is an OPPOSITE of who God is. Until Lucifer tapped into it, it had never been touched before in all eternity. But God knew there was an opposite of Him. That is why Jesus said in Mark 10:18 ►"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone."... The reason WHY God ALONE is good is because only God knows exactly what GOOD truly is. God knows what GOOD is and He alone knew of the opposite of Him, EVIL. Because God loves all life He creates, He had to keep the FREE WILL intact and the only way He could do this was to create the OPPOSITE type of REALM to teach this GREAT LESSON in in His GRAND PLAN to make the nonexistence of EVIL become ABSOLUTE! All the suffering we experience is actually God showing us that He loves us. We just do not realize it yet. Once we are with Him in eternity when this is all over, we will understand and then we will KNOW good as God knows it. We will know EVIL as God knows it. Because God allowed this to be taught to us, what Lucifer did will never ever be repeated throughout all eternity. THAT is why our lives are so short here on Earth. It is all very simple really if you examine everything and seek to know TRUTH!!! -Jerry * Ancien† †imeZ

[@corbinsmith50]

Why when the questions become more difficult, preachers claim God's ways are beyond our understanding? This guy seems to have an answer for the problem of evil. How does he know why God does anything?

[@Jamie-Russell-CME]

He told us alot.

[@Jamie-Russell-CME]

Read Isaiah 46-52

[@m.r.6222]

Corbin Smith, the Bible has much to say about God & evil that's why.

[@avamarina11912]

Because that’s biblically accurate.

[@jonnyw82]

Yes, we’re all bent towards evil. Isn’t that just as much of a reflection on the Creator as it is on the creation?

[@snowrider4495]

I'm baffled in 2022 people don't want to know the truth by researching where the fictional buybull came from and its very sad!!!

[@dvdbrotnov]

Dave P, that was a contradictory statement if ever I heard one. God is and isn't at the same time and in the same relationship?

[@defensoresdelapalabratv3847]

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[@andrewofaiur]

How can he say that the natural disasters are evil without even defining the premise of its morality first? Natural causes are not evil. The consequences it brings are not evil. Suffering and evil are two different questions.

[@pana376]

So if a group of anonymous people write a book about me all of sudden they know what I think and my intention. Arrogance

[@marcfofi688]

People familiar with the human condition? People who know how humans work and why they do what they do? Yes. If they’re arrogant, then so are all the psychologists that write anything similar, so are all the historians who record history that supports it. Doesn’t matter if you’re a theist or atheist, humans are all potential monsters.

[@pana376]

@@marcfofi688 well said I agree the potential for evil is in both the athiest and thiest, so is the potential for great good as well. Potential is irrelevant as it is unrealized action. Studies show the prisions and jails are full of thiest. Although correlation is not causation. I hope I got that saying right lol.....

[@ocolotav1]

Sound like he is talking about God killing when he is talking about lots killing.

[@nothingfree3524]

if so then the god created evil so that would mean would have to know how to do evil so that would mean the god does have evil in itself and allows the evil to exsist to destroy and torment while at the same time being considered caring and loving but accepts people as infants to lders to die and also has the need to require worship and not for believers to sin or be evil or they will be punished for eternity in the place the god created as hell , because the god loves you. Something totally wrong with the whole religious beliefs that most believers don't even question anything but accept like sheep being led and accept what one man explains the ways of god as fact but is only a opinion that makes him comfortable from his interpetation and understanding. Religious beliefs are in place to cusion the fear of the event of death to make it look like it will be a nice thing and go to a nice place or if you are bad then you will go to bad place while at the same time being born into a world with deseases, hurricanes, floods , and many horroble things that kill innocent prople good or bad so how can a loving god permit such things ? if it displays both good and evil to all humans it created and then requires humans to be good ? Religious beliefs were all written by men that had THEIR own beliefs and opinions and presented such as fact as they still do today to lead those that believe for power of themselves as seen on t.v. and for profit for themselves. The world will not change by my opinion and it will go where it goes we all came from the same and will go out the same most likely from nothing to nothing dust to dust. have good day enjoy! 😀😀

[@Greyz174]

Star Trek doesn't resemble the Bible, they both (and every other fiction or religion) just resemble the innate human condition that we communicate through stories.

[@Greyz174]

Same concept with "fairy tales sound like Christianity" They both sound like the innate human experiences that we write into our stories and mythologies to convey truth through vivid well placed metaphors.

[@Mittemo48]

Please don't jab a pen in your eye and stop saying that before you accidentally jab a pen in your eye PLEASE

[@Timothy4186]

Whenever my faith begins to falter, I quote my favorite Bible verse. I repeat it over and over again. Ezekiel, speaking of an Israelite woman in the land of the Egyptians, states, in Ezekiel 23:20 - "And there she lusted after her lovers, whose penises were like those of donkeys and whose ejaculation was like that of horses." Praise God!

[@tonymichaud8683]

Mr Jones' teaching contradicts God's Word...I wonder if this man believes in the spirit world...I wonder if this man knows God at all.