Why should God get to decide what’s just? And how can God be just if he simply forgives people for their sin when they place their faith in Jesus? How is that fair?

Scott and Shawn dig into the challenging subject of God’s justice and discover that the key to understanding God’s justice is to begin with the question, “What does God deserve?”

📖 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth, by Thaddeus Williams
• Our episode, “Is God a Narcissist? Why God’s Demand for Worship Isn’t Selfish”
• Our episode, “Jesus Teaches on Hell (or Does He?)”

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If God is completely sovereign over all of his creation, can human beings be free to make real choices? Or, if God does sovereignly determine our choices as well, how can we be held responsible for those choices? Scott and Shawn dive into these difficult questions in an attempt to hold together the tension of these two apparently irreconcilable truths: God’s sovereignty and man’s free choice.

📖 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• “Gen Z and the Draw to Serious Faith”, by Trevin Wax
• What About Free Will? Reconciling Our Choices with God's Sovereignty, by Scott Christensen
• Hand in Hand: The Beauty of God's Sovereignty and Meaningful Human Choice, by Randy Alcorn

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Scott and Shawn tackle the question of why God allowed evil from three important angles. First, what’s a good ‘elevator’ response when someone confronts you with such a challenge but really aren’t giving you the time for a fully developed response? Second, what’s a quick response that’s often given that you should probably avoid? And third, what is the best biblical response to this question that, while maybe not resolving the tension, leaves the questioner to consider the truth about God’s ultimate purpose and destiny for his creation.

📖 Resources mentioned in this episode:

• “Why Did God Allow the Fall?”, James N Anderson
• “If God is Sovereign, Why is His World Full of Suffering?”, John Piper
• “Confronting the Problem of Evil”, Joe Rigney

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