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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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This brought tears to my eyes.

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!

God Bless You Jeff 😊😊

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!

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.

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

Absolutely amazing

Very nice dialog there Jeff. :)

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

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

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

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

Just Awesome!

Fantastic conversation!

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♡

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.

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.

Ravi Zacharias has some of the best sermons on evil.

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.

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

Incredible

Loved this video!

That was GREAT!

witnessing Jesus..

Remember, Jesus used parables, because they are concise, you cannot argue with a parable, and they get to the heart of the issue. Jeff did well, but lets try an analogy. If I have a child, and I know everything that my child will do, I am not responsible for their actions, I am however responsible for what I do in light of what I know. If God sent his Son to die on the cross, if He has written the moral law in our hearts (given us a conscience), and put hidden messages throughout all of nature (the earth revolves around the sun / life revolves around God's Son, etc.), then He has taken the appropriate actions of a responsible father. This is why so many people with a rebellious spirit want to deny Jesus, because they want to claim that God hasn't done what God has done by being responsible, so that they can deny their own responsibility for their own actions. "Men love darkness" the Bible says, and rightfully so, because in the face of responsibility we cower, but in the light of what Christ has done for us we rise. It is not in our nature to rise, therefore God died on a cross to send us a new nature, to plant His nature into our hearts, that in him we might have everlasting life. Trust in God, and believe on him, and He will reward your trust with his grace and with an abundance of love that abounds so much so that it overcomes death itself. God bless.

can you write a book on that concept of the most evil thing humans have ever done?

Hello, Just curious if you have any videos/material about old earth vs young earth? And are christians wrong or right for believing one or the other? I so glad i found this channel

Jesus Is Lord

Evil is the question that asks, what if God wasn't how he is? The answer is he dies because that is the defining opposite of who he is. What we experience is the nature of that question and the ramifications of such a contradiction that God by nature exists and lives versus a dead God. All of creation is affected by it, animate and inanimate because it's not about willing it, but the nature of it.

But in a deterministic Christian world view like Calvinism - how do you appeal to God to condemn what He has meticulously carried out - which includes (according to Calvinist, rape and child molestation etc)? If God makes sure rape happens who is the Calvinist to say it's evil or wrong? Does God do wrong?

The human race designed with expectancy for fair-play.. yet enmity reigns. . .

well said jeff. well said.

Jonah 3:10 The Bible specifically States God is capable of evil how and why is that fit in with my Judaic Christian belief structures

Sounds cliche but, there can't be good without have evil to measure it against. If freewill exist there must be a choice. What good is freewill without a choice of right and wrong? God giving us choice doesn't make him responsible for our wrong choices. He gave us a conscience to know the difference and he gave us a fear of evil. What more could he do? Do we not feel good when we do good? Do we not feel bad when we do wrong and when others do wrong? Do we not do the same for our children and hope they choose right?

Very interesting. A few comments as a Muslim on where we would agree/disagree: 1. The explanation of predestination given here, that God is in perfect control of all things including our actions while simultaneously not forcing us to do things against our will, is surprisingly identical to what we believe. Seems to me living in America that most Christians don't understand this, but nevertheless I can't agree more with it. 2. Where I think there is complete disagreement is why there is suffering and evil in the world, as we don't acknowledge the idea of original sin in the first place, and saying that Adam, peace be upon him, sinning is the reason for suffering just begs the question as to why we would suffer as a consequence of something we had nothing to do with (in a loose sense you could say there is such a consequence, but according to God's justice and wisdom, there are other important reasons God allowed the consequences of Adam's actions to affect us). The primary purpose in Islam of suffering and tribulations in life is to test our firmness in faith and works in the face of such difficulties. It is also important to note that certain things are seemingly evil but in reality bring about goodness in the broader scheme of things we can't see (in fact, we wouldn't say that anything existing or being the way it is is truly fundamentally evil, because whatever evil it brings is balanced by some kind of benefit or goodness, according to God's wisdom). Evil is also a means of understanding good; you can't appreciate light without darkness. In fact, goodness would not even be virtuous without another possible path for us to take, so there would be no purpose of having Heaven or reward for it. Just some thoughts I pray people find interest and guidance from.

If man has "choice" why do you pray for your unsaved loved one? Why do you ask God to break down the walls of your loved ones heart and save him/her? Isn't that equivalent to you taking someone hostage? If your loved one "chooses" not to be saved, why would you ask God to get interfere with someone's choice? Asking God to "elect" someone who is spiritually blind.

Appealing to free will does not place a standard outside God. That's like saying that there is a standard outside god if he can't destroy the earth with a global flood again.

God’s had enough of his Godless children and churches being silent to the destruction of the vulnerable babies children and elderly ❤️✝️🙏

What's so great about him his just outreaching for Christ no biggie

“Evil” is a term used to describe intentional manipulation that results in the empowerment of one individual at the cost of another. It exists apart from god. It is a human term.

Her eyes seemed very telling. It’s as if Jeff you were led there for her alone. Of course I don’t know that but I think you know what I mean.

Jeff > 55 minute video discussing the problem of evil.

I cant see anyone disliking this video.

Here is something for ya. Remember 1tim 3 15-16 and 2 Tim 3 15-17

Free will and sovereignty must be balanced. Must be balanced. We have free will, we know it intuitively. We make the choices we want to make, we live according to our whims. To deny the presence of our own free will is disingenuous. God is beyond, he can be sovereign among and above our choices. He weaves his will precisely, and yet the devil roams. Yet man chooses evil. Our evil is our responsibility. One could look at any individual event and say, God could've stopped that reasonably, but all of them, for all of them to cease, we'd all have to be taken from the earth. We'd all have to be destroyed, or perfected. That's called the judgment day. Until then he allows our evil. He also foreknew our evil. Somehow it was part of his plan. It's also a demonstration of his love. And he works through all these awful things, not one action more choice of man can abate his purposes, because he created them, he knew what they would do, he designed them. So man's choices are fully responsible for sin. God is also fully in control. Sovereignty means God can do anything, is in control, it doesn't mean that everything is God's doing.

My problem with predestination is that we as humans. Have been given a choice by God to choose him. God does not bring us to him without us choosing him of our own volition. So while i agree with most of what Jeff says this is where our opinions differentiate.

Adam & Eve sinned fell they were punished punishment effects all creation, God loves them so he punishes them and doesn't just erase them this is A). We suffer because of A) we also exist because of A) if we remove suffering we remove us we are technically evil be glad we are allowed to exist also be glad God has a redemptive plan for us to save us to better us.

I hope she got saved or believes in the lord

"He declares the end (of what)? from the beginning (of what?)" This verse doesn't say he predetermines everything - it concludes with God will do all his pleasure. Is he pleased with the death of the wicked (That Calvinist believe he predetermines?) God says he is not pleased with the death of the wicked..but wants them to repent. He would rather they repent.

"People say, Oh, God didn't or doesn't want that to happen" - That's because Jeff - God himself already said there are things He doesn't want to happen, (that he is against what you claim He is for "For a morally sufficient reason") (even fights against, gets emotional about, angry, etc, even denies He did them) but they do happen... How? Because He allows a measure of freedom so that love can be experienced. When God says "I don't/did not want that to happen" or "I wanted that to happen but it didn't" - Jeff, What do you say back to him? "you don't need to try and get yourself off the hook, God"? There is no such thing as God doing "Morally" sufficient evil. Are you saying God could rape, murder, molest children (basically go against his own nature outlined in the bible) and that it would be righteousness? "I have a righteous reason for doing the things I say I'm against, abhor, fight against and claim wasn't me" Why would God lie about the wickedness you claim he does, by denying it in scripture? And how do you explain Jesus saying that he did not have to go to the cross the way it was planned and unfolding? The cross was decreed before God created right? - "I could call on 12 legions of angels and my father WOULD send them" (to his rescue) but if he did - He says, "how then would scripture be fulfilled that says it must go this way".

Does God sin? Planning evil or calamity against wicked ppl is not a sin. If he decreed all things that includes the very sin God fights against and claims he himself abhors. The cross which was a rescue mission by the triune God isn’t the same as raping a chid and shouldn’t be compared to it.

The unfounded assumption here is that without God people don't care.

God: don't worry about the vase Us: what vase?

The concept of "sin" is introduced in biblical mythology when St. Moses pens the Pentateuch, before that time all stories, epics, legends are either Cuneiform or orally circulate. But, the idea of evil which in Christian terms relates to sin, is that the concept existed in many pre Israelite cultures, before the nomadic Israelite's from Canaan emerged.

The best argument against evil is that people have a free will to do evil or good and that is why in the Bible when people do evil God punishes them and when they do good God blesses and praises them. Unfortunately Calvinists do not think humans have a free will, and this becomes a problem not only with regards to salvation, but also with regards to the problem of evil

Adam and Eve needed to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It was part of his plan. This caused them too develop a conscience so the wheels were now in motion. Before that they lived in blissful ignorance and would have had no idea what death entailed. With evil now in the world they could now see what good really was.And the process of God making them in his image had began. The true meaning of 'Image' is character , God is giving us his character and this could never have happened in the Garden of Eden before the fall.Jesus is the first too be given this character and then the Begotten sons of God . Most Christians dont realise that Evil was very necessary for Gods plan. He's creating a family with his character whom he can have an equal relationship with and give the keys too the kingdom too. And Christ was the beginning of this and us after.

If God created the brains of Adam and Eve, that would mean He controls how they think and behave. This would mean God is responsible for the fall by programing them to sin!

May not be relevant, but when talking about Jesus, the fact that he was crucified and died, because of who he was/is and what he did is interesting because if he say, came to the United States of America now, he would have his _freedom_ to practice his religion without penalty by law. Of course, that isn't in the prophecy that one day there will be a nation where all belief is protected by the government, and that religions may be practiced without the punishment of death. He wouldn't get crucified today, and I'm sure many would come out to see his miracles. I don't know how his appearance then was better than a modern visit now, but it appears the timing was right fit the prophecy as he knew that this who spoke I'll of him would kill him.

God isn't here to make you feel better or happy he isn't here for you, stop acting like God owes you something he's God. Stop telling people God is here for you, we are here for him

Durbin is a Calvinist. In his view God did not merely allow evil acts, but positively causes them. His theodicy consists of “God did it,” it being everything.

Did she ever come to follow JESUS? She was in the classroom then outside.

romans 1:18-32 would be a good answer for evil. it began in the garden. God will not force anyone into the kingdom of heaven.

Did Jesus know what it was like to see someone blind, deaf, disabled and/or sick and not be able to heal them, to have to rely on others to survive, to have questions unanswered, to be nothing more than human... It doesn't seem so.

It is objectively true that she's cute!

This makes no sense. Please help me understand

she`s standing there being unnecessarily polite, looking like she has classes to go to or at least somewhere else to be and she`s accosted by the campus bible basher. is this his M O ? ambush surprised undergraduates with rehearsed questions ? she`s like fuck this zealot is dull and tedious.

Jesus gave his life, no man took it from him. He played a part, willingly in his own crucifixion. It's false to say in a deterministic world view that God "allowed" others to do what was in their heart" In a Calvinist world view God put that in the heart and made sure they had a wicked heart - God makes the choices beforehand - "No maverick molecule". You can't say everything is predetermined - ALL and then pretend that doesn't include the very evil things God objects to when it happens.

"I'm not here to play intellectual games" "I'm the one here who can call something evil" lol

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Stop defending calvinism. Ppl hate that version of God and it leads ppl away from God.............

you maybe want to have a bible with you while your preaching but that's just me

I don't know whether this guy doesn't understand the problem of evil or is dishonest but he answers this question like just about every apologist I've ever heard and it's not answer. If you start off by arguing that if there is no god then evil can't exist then you're missing the point completely. I hear many apologists express it by saying that we're borrowing from their worldview. No, we're not. You're missing the point, possibly on purpose. Let me explain. I'm an atheist. I don't think that a god exists. I don't think that evil exists objectively. When you tell me that evil cannot exist without a god, you're not telling me anything new. I already agree that without a god there is no objective evil. "Evil" is simply a label that we put on things that we really, really don't like. It's just another example of something that theists think is objective because they feel it very strongly. "Evil" is a term that is used rather vaguely but, if I had to define it, I'd probably go with something along the lines of doing something that you know is wrong for the enjoyment of it. The problem of evil specifically depends on a god. That bad things happen is not a problem for the consistency of a naturalistic worldview. That bad things happen is a problem for the consistency of a worldview that includes a triple-omni god. Of course, Christians blather about free will and that evil is necessary but that is clearly false. Basically, if you're arguing about a worldview without god on the subject of evil then you've already lost, because it's irrelevant.

Maybe I'm crazy but the Holacoast and slavery seem a little worse that one man who may or may not have existed got killed..

Calvinism is very confusing.

The problem with this is that Durbin has not justified his position that his particular theological perspective forms the only possible rational basis for morality. Presuppositional apologetics are deeply flawed. Even other Christian thinkers understand that. You cannot just start with the premise that you're right and then try to show why everyone else is inconsistent. That would only be the case if you were in possession of a finite set of propositions that were necessarily the only true propositions about reality. The fact is that there are too many possible propositions to arrive at some kind of necessarily complete and consistent set. That being said, even with his deeply flawed method of apologetics, Durbin is still typically able to dispatch his naturalist materialist opponents with ease. But I would say that says more about his opponent's complete philosophical illiteracy than it does about the arguments peculiar to his own position. I wager Durbin wouldn't know what to do if he were arguing with someone who actually had another metaphysical view aside from crass materialism.

According to Occam’s Razor, the solution to the problem of evil is the simplest one: no god.

Bunch of assertions with no evidence typical Christian way

Calvanism strikes again...

Jeff always argues with people on the street. He should start hunting down real atheist debators like Sam Harris.........and get his ass kicked.

Jeff makes is look hard to make sense out of information 100s of years out of date with our current knowledge and morals. Lots of word play and cognitive dissonance.

What a load of crap.

Yikes, painful to watch someone witness to someone who isn't saved while using Calvinist theology, I respect what you do Jeff and I enjoy watching a lot of your videos but where we disagree is concerning your Calvinist doctrine. I hope you see the truth one day in that, but being a Calvinist you are probably laughing at me saying that. Theres nothing more stomach turning then hearing Christians try to explain to non Christians that God has decreed everything that happens to have happened like that, a complete contradiction to the character of God and Christ.

Jeff take a step or two back. I’m on your side with your message but sometimes in my view you are a bully for your views.

That's not a good question...it was sarcasm dummy...

Nope. We don't need an absolute standard of evil in order to call something evil. We can place labels on subjective concepts. Argument fail. Next?

Your Calvinism has dictated your view of theodicy. I see much more sense in Ty Gibson's "is God a sadistic monster" message

Presup, Free Will, Divine Command Theory. A mixed bag of failed arguments.

I'm getting so tired of listening to this guy say without God their is no reason to be good "no basis". I don't believe in God because their is no proof. I don't believe in things you can not prove, that is just silly to me. Why would anyone? I'm a good fucking person though I don't need God to be good to people. I just am on my own and make that decision with my own mind. And I don't need a reward at the end of my life for doing so.

It's funny because he thinks he is making sense..

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.