S3E17.17: So, what -is- God's part in a famine or whatever else?

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What began as a supplemental episode has become a rather long and hefty discussion about the question of suffering or evil in a world spoken forth by God. This is far from a complete answer. What this episode is doing is to outline a larger framework, along with a set of prior questions and considerations in order to really understand this question. 

Too many of us today think this question in terms of whether we can still believe that there exists a benevolent, super-powerful entity, if he will not prevent bad things from happening. But, that actually isn’t the question. It is about how to understand reality, how to understand what it really means for God to speak forth a world, so that we can understand what it means for something bad to happen as a part of what God speaks.

And the answer to that is not as simple as we’d think (hence the length of the episode).
         
 1:03     Return to the question, "Why is there suffering if God is good?"           
 8:45     What "part" of what happens is God, and what "part" is us?           
 17:31     The speech-like character of reality as God speaking           
 27:20     So, why -is- there something like a famine?           
 35:10     Why we've got it backwards            

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