Remembering Charlie Kirk - Why is there evil in the world?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is John Mounts filling in for JT. And we've
been talking about the events tragically that unfolded yesterday in Utah,
the assassination of Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA. If
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have heard from some of you, or leave us a
talkback message on this day. This is a day of
sadness and we were gonna spend a lot of it
remembering the tragic events of nine to eleven, and we
still will spend some time on that. But as much
bad news as we're sharing, there is some good news.
You may think it's bad news, but it is good

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news because today, because of what happened, because of the
death of Charlie Kirk, today the messages of the gospel
are being shared around the world. There's a lot of
people watching his video, going back watching videos that he
has done in the past. I spent last night I
I couldn't go to sleep. I try and go to
sleep early when I have to do the show and

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I couldn't go to sleep. I was up until almost midnight,
just scrolling through watching video after video, and a lot
of the questions that he would answer were so they
pointed to almost they pointed to this event, and he
addressed them almost like he knew what was going to
happen someday. Somebody asked him in one of these recent events.
They asked him about evil in the world, and why

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does evil exist? Why does God allow bad things happen
to good people. This is what Charlie Kirk had to
say on that.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Evil couldnot exist if there is no standard of good.
She only knows something is evil because she believes there's
a transcendent good. Evil is just an opinion if there
is no God. Murder is not wrong if there is
no God. Stealing is not wrong if there is no God.
So the way to convince her of that is that
that you're not the first person to wrestle with the
question of evil. The more important question is is it

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actually evil or is it just an opinion? And we
believe that we know as believers that there is an
absolute standard above us that we appeal to. The Bible
tells us two things. God will use all things for
good for those who love him Romans twelve two. But
that might not satisfy her. Instead, the question of evil
should be we, as Christians, we have to explain a
couple things. We have to explain, like child suffering. Like

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I'll be honest, it's really tough for us to wrestle
with the fact that these girls are at Christian summer
camp and they get washed away in a flood. It's tough, right,
we have to explain child cancer and flooding and earthquakes.
But the atheist they have to explain everything else. They
have to explain why we exist, What is love, what
is mercy? Why is it that our universe came to being?

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Is there a standard of good? Is there a standard
of evil? They have to explain everything else. Just because
there is evil does not mean there is no God.
In fact, it means the only reason you know it's
evil is because there's a transcendent, perfect standard of good,
and that is God himself.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
And that was the words of Charlie Kirk.