Jeff Durbin Answering 'The Problem of Evil'

Christian pastor, apologist, and host of Apologia Radio, Jeff Durbin, answers the question regarding 'The Problem of Evil' at Scottsdale Community College.

[kacejohnson]

That one one of the most beautiful and clear presentations of the gospel I've heard! Praise the Lord! She seemed so humble and kind, I hope God will work in her life to save her!

[jacinths]

Wow... Praise Jesus!! He experienced suffering WITH US and still calls us for a relationship with Him! Thank you for that Jeff!

[huunguyen]

Don't know how people can say anything bad about Jeff, when this guy lives out what he says. He loves people without expecting anything in return. He helps people come out of drug addictions. Helps girls who almost aborted their baby. He's there for people who got rejected and broken down. Before you think of anything bad to say about this guy. Take a look at your own life and see what you've done lately.

[robertknight]

Jeff has an amazing GOD given ability to really pull the tears out for this Lord we have. He sums these things up powerfully and that is bestowed by God.
This Lord of ours is beyond great and limitless in his amazing power.

[zandrello]

I know this was 3 years ago, but I just discovered Jeff and his videos, and wow, life changing stuff. I love your ministry, thank you for serving to the Glory of God.

I know it's been awhile, and I don't know where these 2 College students are now (I saw the male student in another video just before this one), but I just prayed for them. I pray that through Jeff, they saw the love of Christ, I pray that God reveals himself to them, and that they pursue him and accept his Grace and Love. I truly care about them, just as Jeff does, and I pray they are saved.

Thank you again Jeff for your ministry and your intelligent battle for the Gospel!

[albertjames]

the way she is so attentive, she ACTUALLY has an open mind, unlike the people who claim they do, when they actually don't. So many athiests or agnostics claim to be open-minded but as soon as you start making sense with the reasoning we use for explaining things, they push back and start accusing. They dont want to listen because they dont want to accept that God exists.

[royficek]

I love the part where Jesus lived and suffered among us! We also are imputed His perfect life by faith through grace. He is imputed our sin on Himself on the cross which He suffers and dies for. THE GREAT EXCHANGE is awesome!

[jmesey]

That is probably one of the most important things I could hear that helps the sovereignty of God. You said, ” God does not take in knowledge.” That right there blows salvation by works, or the fact that what we decide to do, or even if we are good and obedient to get into heaven like other religions teach, and even denominations within Christianity, out of the water.

[steadyarm]

Saving one life at a time....for eternity.

[van-michaelgraves]

I wish to learn and spread of His word, the truth, to His people, and to His sons, for His glory.

[scottt.]

wow man. I have been watching your videos and you have helped me, tremendously, understand some things that I had questions to. thank you so much, and glory to God for helping you explain things so well.

[jimmyintheswamp]

8:28 Jeff's statement of the kerygma is goosebump inducing.

[lindaholly]

You can't kill Jesus, because he willingly gave himself.

[followthepinkline]

At 5:29 a fellow interjects "God saves by grace or by works? Jeff answered his direct question with a direct answer, Jeff said "grace, yes by grace, not by works."
I'd like to add to that: We are saved by Gods grace but not by His grace alone we must also have faith. We cannot earn our way to heaven through our works alone. Faith is a requirement. Therefore we must have faith inorder to receive Gods grace.
I'm only elaborating on Jeff's point just in case anyone else like myself was confused. God bless you, carry on♡

[deedoo]

I also used to feel a need to try and get God off the hook although my spirit testified that God is in complete control. I stopped trying take away Gods sovereignty by removing Him from the occurrences in my life and the world that I don’t like.

[weschaffin]

One leading narrative that comes from Jeff’s videos is the it’s truly sad at how many lost people that are out there.

[RR-etsh]

The Jews said they would accuse Pilate of being "no friend of Ceasar, " that is what put the fear in Pilate. That is a very serious charge in Roman law.

[gwengwen]

I’m flowing some flames on this one!!!🔥🔥🔥

[mykingofkings]

How would we ever know a crooked line unless we first had a straight line to compare it with!!
The same is true with evil how would we know evil unless we first know good to compare it with, evil cannot exist without good but good can exist without evil...evil is a lack of good just like darkness cannot exist without light because darkness is just a lack of light...evil is a twisting of good.
The fact that we know a standard of good and we do compare leads us to ask... where did this standard come from? its within each one of us, not just some but all.
It's definitely not a response to feeling pain because take this example... if a man accidentally trips you and you really injury your knee although we are in pain, we don't get angry with him but if a man deliberately tries to trip you but he misses... you get angry with him... much more angry than when you were in physical pain!! we would say "you shouldn't of done that".. why??
Because when we ask this we're appealing to a standard that we believe and act like everyone knows it and that's why we hold each other accountable, when we know someone is breaking this law against us or others it makes us unhappy and angry!!
You will also noticed that when someone gets held accountable for breaking it....they will rarely admit to "intentionally" breaking this law, instead they will list off the reasons to why they have broken it, a bad mood, life or work problems stress, kids so on... they will try to justify why they have broken it because they will feel guilty they will know themselves that's why you are angry because they knew.
When we do wrong we want to avoid being personally responsible for it....it's not us being intentionally bad it's always other reasons which make us do it!! ... but the very interesting thing is we have no problem taking responsibility for our good actions, when we keep the moral law we don't say "this helped me to be good or this is the reason I'm good" .. we don't make excuses to why we do good....instead we happily credit that to ourselves and nothing else, nothing helped us to be good and keep the law but something always makes is break it!! funny that...
This just shows that deep inside all of us, we were made to be good, to want to do good and stop and avoid evil, we all know this law and we know we shouldn't break it, we hate admitting when we have blaming everything but ourselves but we love when we keep it and taking full credit for ourselves when we do.

[mathias]

Ravi Zacharias has some of the best sermons on evil.