The promised chapter on how Romans 9 answers why evil exists is here! Continuing from our look at the Old Testament we look at Paul's answer to why there exists evil and how God uses it for His glory. We are unable to divorce ourselves from the Old Testament and Paul engages with a question of what is God's purpose in choosing some and not others especially if some not chosen are not the "chosen people of God". We actually do see God's chosen people but they are made up of both Jew & Gentile. But is there something special about those God chosen for salvation and/or something badly special about those God doesn't choose. Romans 9 says that the exact answer of why evil exists. For God's redemptive glory as seen in Scripture. Timeline: 00:00 - Introduction 01:38 - Romans 9, The Exodus, & God's Purpose For Evil 06:38 - The Right Response To "Why, God?" 09:12 - The Purpose Of The Plagues Glorifies God 12:48 - The Exodus Glorifies God Even More Because Of Evil 14:57 - God's Grace Should Make Us Ask, "Why Us?" 16:17 - Romans 9, The Red Sea, & God's Purpose For Evil 18:00 - Evil Shows Us God's Justice & His Mercy 21:46 - God Discriminates In His Love 23:28 - Why Doesn't God Save Everyone? 27:56 - Why Isn't There Universal Atonement? 32:20 - Romans 9 Short Summary 33:29 - Redemptive Glory In John's Gospel 34:05 - Glory In Blindness 38:53 - Glory In Raising The Dead 42:21 - Death Is Permanent...Right? 43:19 - Glory In The Cross 46:37 - Conclusion LINKS: A great walkthrough of Romans 9 occurs in a debate Dr. James White did and I would recommend watching that for more of a walkthrough with questions one might have dealing with it more fully - https://youtu.be/_wuDloSP-VU BOOKS MENTIONED What About Evil? A Defense of God's Sovereign Glory by Scott Christensen Kindle - https://amzn.to/2UeV3tt Hardcover - https://amzn.to/3xGsxP6 “As an Amazon Associate, we earn income to support us from qualifying purchases.” Webpage for this episode - https://cavetothecross.com/ep171/ #Romans9 #ScottChristensen #ProblemOfEvil All episodes, short clips, & blog - https://www.cavetothecross.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8qR1UBozXc

A very classic theistic argument is that the universe is finite and all things in this universe are caused by a previous cause, therefore there must be an uncaused First Cause that exists outside the universe and not subject to the forces of the universe. Guess who the Christians are going to label that First Cause? TIMELINE: 00:00 - The Universe Is Finite, Therefore God Exists 02:13 - The Praxiology Of The Universe 03:18 - How Do You Rationally Prove An Uncaused Cause? 06:42 - The Irrationality Of Rationally Talking About An Uncaused Cause 08:26 - Everything Happens For A Reason - Even The Start Of The Universe #JohnFrame #Apologetics #Cosmologic #Ontological #TheisticProofs Today's short clip comes from episode 225 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/4Tot3Wul_Bc The episode link is https://www.cavetothecross.com/ep225/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEqGufJyhEo

Bart Ehrman claims that Mark is completely unaware of the virgin birth of Jesus that are included in Matthew & Luke. Arguments from silence tend to be very tenuous. Both Mark and John give undesigned coincidences that they knew about the virgin birth. TIMELINE: 00:00 - Test Case #2 - Matthew & Luke Virgin Birth; No Mark Mention 02:09 - Argument From Silence 05:04 - Mark's Non-Inclusion Of Many Events 06:15 - John Writes From The Beginning Of Time BOOKS MENTIONED: Hidden In Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts by Lydia McGrew - https://amzn.to/313IhPl Today's short clip comes from episode 103 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/_5z7vKpIebQ The episode link is https://www.cavetothecross.com/ep103 #BibleContradictions #NewTestmanet #TextualCriticism For more information on the show go to https://www.cavetothecross.com Subscribe on the following: Patreon - http://patreon.com/cavetothecross YouTube - https://tinyurl.com/y638gxoc iTunes - https://tinyurl.com/y59cexm7 Stitcher - https://tinyurl.com/yybepzo8 Google Play - https://tinyurl.com/y3mra4ap TuneIn & Amazon Echo Alexa - https://tinyurl.com/C2CATuneIn IHeartRadio - https://tinyurl.com/c2cihrtrad Spotify - https://tinyurl.com/C2CASpotify ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR2pkU7WN5g

There are 400,000 textual variants in the New Testament. There are more variants than words in the New Testament by a factor of 10. Exactly. And that's what we would expect to see given how we understand the scribal and transmission evidence for the NT. TIMELINE: 00:00 - Claim #3 - There Are More Variants In The New Testament Manuscripts Than Words In The New Testament 01:47 - Thre Are A Lot Of Manuscripts So The Numbers Don't Mean Much 03:13 - The Copying Of The New Testament By Scribes 07:08 - Conclusion Today's short clip comes from episode 108 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/pgSy-sq0TmU The episode link is https://www.cavetothecross.com/ep108 #BibleContradictions #NewTestmanet #TextualCriticism For more information on the show go to https://www.cavetothecross.com Subscribe on the following: Patreon - http://patreon.com/cavetothecross YouTube - https://tinyurl.com/y638gxoc iTunes - https://tinyurl.com/y59cexm7 Stitcher - https://tinyurl.com/yybepzo8 Google Play - https://tinyurl.com/y3mra4ap TuneIn & Amazon Echo Alexa - https://tinyurl.com/C2CATuneIn IHeartRadio - https://tinyurl.com/c2cihrtrad Spotify - https://tinyurl.com/C2CASpotify ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAWyO659T_g