Newman Lecture: Dr. Peter Kreeft - "The Problem of Evil"

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Newman Center at Oregon State University

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@Dr.Nguyen-Bakersfield Жыл бұрын

I wish we had just a clear audio file for all his lectures. Dr. Kreeft, may I make a donation for top quality professional audio video equipments?

@dynamic9016 Жыл бұрын

Thanks much for this video, but the audio was really poor.

@Grace17893 Жыл бұрын

Excellent talk; God bless you

@matthewstokes1608 Жыл бұрын

please mend the microphone or the connexion if Dr Kreeft gives another lecture...?? How sad!

@andrewferg8737 3 жыл бұрын

The problem of evil is not the greatest argument for atheism, but the most sound argument against it. Human history is a horror story. All evil is gratuitous, or it is not evil in the strict sense, as Aquinas notes. If it is not pointless, cruel, vindictive, and without meaning then it would not be evil. Evil deprives, consumes, and destroys and provides no rational conclusion. Evil admits of no exit except to heap-up or hollow-out additional evil. Mankind chose, and with each moment of a violated conscience continues to choose, to "know" evil. This is an intimate and experiential knowledge, as in Adam "knew" his wife and bore children. It is immersive, taught in real time, is as unforgiving as mathematics, and is as pointless as childhood leukemia. A recovered drug addict might acknowledge as much, for the knowledge of evil is a lesson better left unlearned. This is the lesson from which Man is still reeling, the epigraph of his assigned textbook the Bible, and the horror of history culminating in the Cross of Christ.

@dennislydon6769 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Evil actually proves the existence of God and not 'No God' because evil is the manifestion of Free Will which comes fro God and God Light, Goodness, Truth and Glory reinforced and Glorified when juxtaposed against the choice against gainst such Light and Glory the choice to follow the evil sprit. Evil Glorifies God because it reveals the opposite of God.

@andrewferg8737 3 жыл бұрын

@@dennislydon6769" evil is the manifestion of Free Will... [and] evil Glorifies God because it reveals the opposite of God" You seem to have expressed a sincere belief in God, however your reasoning regarding "evil" reflects the error of dualism. Evil is not a thing, but rather a privation. Evil is not a manifestation of the freedom of will, but rather a failure of the will to choose freely. Evil does not glorify God, although God can and does work all things together for good. He speaks existence ex nihilo, calls light to shine in darkness, and raises the dead to life. "his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he" (Deuteronomy 32) "And not rather, as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say, 'Let us do evil, that good may come?' whose damnation is just" (Romans 3) "For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do" (Romans 7) "refuse the evil, and choose the good" (Isaiah 7)

@bobtaylor170 2 жыл бұрын

Andrew Ferg, yours are the only KZbin comments I've ever screenshot because they're profound. I know I've seen your name, or at least, your surname, as a commenter on someone's Substack recently. I suppose you're that commenter, as well.

@Miriana727 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful lecture. Thank you.

@bobtaylor170 2 жыл бұрын

I can't help wondering why the audio for some of the best things on KZbin is so bad. I suppose it's because there's a Devil.

@Dr.Pronkzapetto 3 ай бұрын

8:02 The lecture starts

@lovemakestheworldgoround6726 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate Dr Kreeft's wisdom but the audio is pretty ordinary... makes hearing this lecture quite arduous! 😓

@Matt-cj5us 2 жыл бұрын

Love is present when two agree to love each other. God is love. Do you love God? People will go to hell because God never knew them. The relationship God offered was never accepted. Sin and evil continues because of ignorance.