Speaker 1: The following presentation Isabel Marve Stidia's.
Speaker 2: Production Welcome back truth Seekers from around the world. It's
time for an impromptu edition of the fact Hunter podcast
on this Wednesday, May twenty seventh, twenty twenty six. In
last night's episode, I had included my phone number and
I said, hey, you know, if you need anything, hit
me up. And between late last night and this morning,
we've gotten some messages. And there's a lot of people
that are dealing with family members and even themselves who
have walked away from faith, whether it be a church incident,
bad pastoral leadership, or they had something personal happen in
their life, and they're they're questioning themselves and their faith.
And I was building some raised beds this morning and
moving the chickens around, and I did have the earbuds
in this morning, and this YouTube video, you know, I
just listened to the audio came up and it was
almost as if the Lord had put it in for
this particular reason. And again, this isn't my content. I'm
going to share the link. So if you want to
watch it on YouTube, like subscribe and send a message
say hey, the fact owner sent me here. But I'm
telling you after listening to this, I really felt compelled
to pass it along to you. While you know, on
this podcast over the last six years we have questioned politics, media, history, institutions,
all the propaganda. But you know, eventually, as we go
down all the rabbit holes, it leads us into that
deeper question, why does suffering exist? Why does God allow pain? Loss,
evil and heartbreak? And I thought this gentleman did a
really good job taking that question head on in a
very serious and very honest way. It was just a
real discussion. And it's only you know, eleven or twelve
minutes about personal suffering, faith and the broken condition of
this world, but through a biblical lens, and whether you're
a believer or you're struggling with doubts or just searching
for answers, I truly believe that this message is worth hearing.
Find Jesus, fight culture, and spread the good news. Without
any further ado, here's the clip, God bless you all.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Look, there is a question that scares Christians, I think
more than almost any other one does not because there
isn't an answer, but because the question itself hurts, and
it's deeply, deeply personal for all of us and if
we're being honest, most of us we don't really ask
it until something breaks, until.
Speaker 1: It actually breaks. It's easy to talk about the goodness
of God. He is so good when you're life is working, when.
Speaker 3: Your family's healthy, the bills are paid, and the future
seems like everything's going great.
Speaker 1: It's a lot harder to talk about.
Speaker 3: It sitting in a hospital room or after that phone call,
or standing at a funeral rendering why those prayers didn't
seem to matter at all. And eventually almost everybody hits
a moment where they think, or maybe even actually say
out loud, if.
Speaker 1: God is good? What is all this about? What is
all this like? Really? What is it? What is the world?
Speaker 3: Because sometimes it feels unbelievably beautiful, and sometimes it feels
completely insane and chaotic. You watch people destroy themselves, innocent
people suffer for no reason that we can see, or
you see somebody beg God for help and they still
lose everything. And I think what makes the question so
heavy is that deep down everybody knows.
Speaker 1: This is how things are supposed to be.
Speaker 3: That's the part I think atheism doesn't explain very well, honestly,
because when something horrible happens, Nobody reacts like evil is normal.
Nobody watches a little kids suffer and thinks, well, that's
just molecules bouncing around, survival of the fittest.
Speaker 1: Nobody thinks that.
Speaker 3: Something in you immediately says that is wrong, not just inconvenient,
and it's not just sad, it's wrong. And Christianity it
says that there is a reason that you feel that,
because this world is actually broken. The Bible never describes
the world the way modern culture does. Modern culture, you see,
says people are basically good and then society structures mess
them up. But the Bible says something way more uncomfortable
than that. It says something inside of humanity itself has bent.
Something's broken, and ver honest, you don't even need religion
to see that. Seeing in about five minutes online in
the comment section probably this video. People lie for no reason,
tear down others for no reason, betray each other for
some dumb, trivial thing, destroy their whole families over pride.
Speaker 1: Half the things that are bringing people's.
Speaker 3: Lives are things that they willingly, we willingly walked into, and.
Speaker 1: We all know it.
Speaker 3: That's why every person on earth feels guilty at different times.
Even people who claim that morality is completely subjective, they
still spend half their life angry at other people.
Speaker 1: Because they don't hold up morals that they do.
Speaker 3: Because deep down we know there is such a thing
as good, which means there is also such a thing
as evil. And I think this is where people misunderstand
following Jesus and Christianity completely. Christianity is not claiming that
this world is currently heaven. It's claiming this world is
in rebellion against God. That's why death feels unnatural to
us and why wouldn't we grieve it? There's something that happens,
and it's why when you see that injustice, it bothers
you so much, because somewhere deep out inside of you
and inside of me, it's this constant awareness.
Speaker 1: That things are not the way that they should be.
And that's the part where people usually push back.
Speaker 3: And I understand it, they'll say, and Okay, but if
God is loving, why allow any of it? I get that,
I really do, because there are things in life that
I genuinely do not have an easy answer for you.
I don't know why some people seem to suffer endlessly
while others don't at all know why we lost those
beautiful babies on this side of heaven, My wife and
I I don't know. I don't know why some prayers
get answered the exact way that we hope for in others.
Don't anybody who acts like they fully understand that they're
full of it? Anyone understands that it will tell you
that they understand suffering. There's a line, or they haven't
suffered that much. But I also think that people accidentally
ask for something they don't actually want because people say,
why doesn't God just remove all the evil?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll go with you.
Speaker 3: Now there's a whole conversation to be had about perfect
justice versus perfect love, but we'll set that aside for
a second.
Speaker 1: I'll go with it. Why doesn't God just remove evil?
He could? But where exactly do you want him to
start with that?
Speaker 3: Because evil is not just dictators and murderers and the things,
the caricatures that we paint in our minds.
Speaker 1: It's in us too. It's in that bitterness that you feed,
those lies that we justify, and the people that we've hurt.
Speaker 3: My selfish habits that pop in daily but really benefit us.
Most of us want a God who judges evil generally
but overlooks, you know, our specifics. Christiane says, that's not
how holiness works. But this is also why the Cross
matters so much, because the Christian answer to suffering is
not that God stay distant from it. It's that He
entered it himself. That's the part that man. Whenever I
read that a couple decades ago, it changed me. Christianity
has not teaching a God watched human history from afar,
watching our suffering while demanding that we just blindly follow him.
It teaches that he stepped directly into that suffering. Jesus
did not step into the world to avoid pain. He
stepped into it knowing exactly what it would cost him.
And Honestly, the older I get, the less I struggle
with the idea that suffering exists if I'm honest with you,
and the more I struggle with the idea that suffering
exists without God, because if there is no God, then
suffering means nothing, evil means nothing, Love means nothing. Your
grief over death is just some sort of chemical reaction
that you have, your longing for justice. That's insidet He
was just meaningless, nothing to it. That feeling in your
chest that says the world should be better than this.
That's just biology tricking you, some sort of survival mechanism.
Speaker 1: Maybe some people can believe that I've just seen too much.
I can't.
Speaker 3: I think every human being knows deep down that this
world is fractured, because we all carry that memory. Maybe
it's instinct of how things were meant to be or
should be. And Christianity says that's exactly what's happening. The
story of the Bible is not bad things never happen.
It's something went terribly wrong here, and God is going.
Speaker 1: To restore what is loss. That's the entire story. That's
the good news, brothers and sisters.
Speaker 3: And maybe that's why I don't find Christianity less believable
after seeing suffering.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I find it more believable.
Speaker 3: Because no worldview explains the human condition more accurately than
that Bible. Human beings are glorious and completely horrifying at
the same time. We are capable of unbelievable love and
unbelievable evil, sometimes even in the same afternoon. The Bible
saw that and pointed to it years ago, thousands of
years ago, and maybe faith isn't trying to pretend that
we have all the answers. Maybe faith is looking directly
at the darkness in this world and still believing darkness
is not the final thing. It's true, and honestly, I
think there are a lot of questions people carry around quietly.
Speaker 1: Silently, maybe a shamed ask, made afraid to ask.
Speaker 3: So that's what this series is going to be, questioning
my faith, not because I've lost it at all, because
I think real faith is willing to look at hard
questions directly in the eye, find Jesus, fight culture, spread
the good news.