The best way to measure your own pride is to ask God to let you know when you are prideful and for Him to give you a humble heart. Be ready though because some of it will be tough. The result will be a true estimation of yourself in the eyes of God.

Peter Kreeft in a powder blue suit 😍 I always say he is Thomas Aquinas and Mr. Rogers rolled into one. 👔👞📿

You have to agree with Dr Kreeft. He summed it up beautifully. Last weeks gospel reading was ask, seek, knock. Our priest told us not to be disappointed if our answer isn't revealed in prayer right away because it is God who is persistent in that reading, not us. Sometimes the story has to unfold a bit longer before the answer is revealed.

What do you think of Peter Kreeft's response to the problem of evil?

I the more I watch Dr Peter Jeremy's he reminds me of JP11!!!!...God bless you -love watching you from New Zealand 🤗

Helpful Discussion, Thank You.

Then the Benedictines would say work in itself can be a prayer

3:26 What's really hard is when you do think about yourself and then start to compare yourself to them.

I thank God that I was raised partially in a Baptist church where the preacher was very clear that all sin, even the smallest lie, deserves eternal damnation. I suspect it’s because of that I never once took the so called “Problem of Evil” seriously. What could possibly happen to us that would not be better than we deserve? But I understand people who take pride in thier misery, who need to feel persecuted, and who distain all tradition, need a different answer. I have stumbled on one they might bear. It is this, we concede I assume that a life devoid of suffering would be worse than one with some suffering, yes? I could not stand a paradise with no conflict or struggle, no pain and no sacrifice. What sort of life would that be? Certainly not the one God is preparing us for. It will be more than this life but not less. There will be no struggle between good and evil perhaps but there are struggles between greater and lesser goods. There is beauty in rivalry that brings out the best in us. And in suffering for those who bear it nobly. Indeed human life seems a parody of itself without sone suffering. We grant that and we grant that free will inevitably will result in sone suffering. But there is too much sone say. To this I reply, what sort of suffering seems just right? If you think it’s the right kind of suffering, is it really suffering? If it seems like there might always be a point, would you not then find a part of yourself missing? Would it really be possible to hate evil as one is supposed to if we always knew it would or even could come to good? Is life not enriched by seemingly pointless suffering? I think it is. What else would people complain about? What else could drive them to thirst after righteousness? Seemingly pointless suffering, especially when it is someone else’s suffering can be an extremely beneficial thing for a man. Therefore, if we acknowledge that suffering can be for good and only seem evil, then we ought to acknowledge that this good would not be so complete and perfect if the meaning of suffering was always clear. It would defeat the purpose entirely. Therefore it is because the suffering is meaningful that it feels meaningless. But, you may say, if we cannot knw whether the evil has a point or not, why should we suppose it does? To that I say, don’t suppose that it does. But also don’t suppose this poses an actual objection to God’s love. There is no evil you could percieve which you could ever be sure was pointless, especially since the more clearly it appears to be pointless., the more good it might be doing.

Thanks much for this video.

“If your deepest desire is to follow the will of God, you will go to heaven no matter how badly you follow on that..” is this accurate? I hope so... but I’m not certain of this statement.

It's pretty weird, in my opinion, to assume a good argument against athiesm would de facto be a good argument for Christianity. I'm pretty certain too that no one here will agree.

Being honest, there was much talk and no answer. Maybe you will only discover after death, but if life finishes here then everything is very unfair.

I too always saw cats as girls and dogs as boys when I was young. I thought I was the only one!!! 😃😃😃

Really the best!

Thank goodness Tasmania is back on the wall

Yes I have a problem understanding why God created a world which is a Hell for the animals. And another problem as to why as Christians we do not extend our love to animals by not eating them , thereby not contributing to the horrors of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.

Wow... opening the reality of Man today.

Where do Scriptures speak of Purgatory? Granted they don't detail Heaven all that much, but did I miss something?

There is no clear answer as to why animals suffer??? Unfortunately, and despite good intentions, some apologists seem to come across like Voltaire's Pangloss or the companions of Job, whom Job rightly criticized--- "Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?" (13:7) False or sugar-coated theodicies only feed the atheistic delusion and provide an entrepôt for God-haters seeking the destruction of souls. As useful as some Thomistic lines of thought may be, , the complexities of Aquinas are apt to be misperceived by popular culture, to the effect, "Why not say (as some slanderously claim that we say) 'Let us do evil that good may result?" (Romans 3:8). For the non-believer the problem of evil is not an academic issue. Their encounter with evil, whether in scripture, or current events, or personal experience is a source of deep-seated doubt which may, ironically, animate their conscience against truth. This is, after all, the reasoning for the phrase "the problem" of evil for it is indeed an insurmountable "problem" of conscience for many. Aquinas and others may offer some insight, but "miserable comforters are ye all" (Job 16:2) is the reply to such theodicies most often heard, if social media is any indication of popular sentiment. In a treatise on the problem of evil, one must as the saying goes call a spade a spade, "even very dark, and no brightness in it" (Amos 5:20). Human history is a horror story. All evil is gratuitous, or it is not evil in the strict sense, as Aquinas notes. If it is not pointless, cruel, vindictive, and without meaning then it would not be evil. Evil deprives, consumes, and destroys and provides no rational conclusion. Evil admits of no exit except to heap-up or hollow-out additional evil. Mankind chose, and with each moment of a violated conscience continues to choose, to "know" evil. This is an intimate and experiential knowledge, as in Adam "knew" his wife and bore children. It is immersive, taught in real time, is as unforgiving as mathematics, and is as pointless as childhood leukemia. A recovered drug addict might acknowledge as much, for the knowledge of evil is a lesson better left unlearned. This is the lesson from which Man is still reeling, the epigraph of his assigned textbook the Bible, and the horror of history culminating in the Cross of Christ. Indeed, it is the miracle of the triune God alone that He can call a universe into being from nothing, command light to shine in the darkness, and transform death into life, but the goodness of God does not, has never, and will never require evil.

By saying that we need the suffering, aren’t you saying that starving children need to starve?

Oops, I mean Dr Peter Kreeft!

How can the death of one person be like the sky, spread over everything. Cs lewis, @5:03

When I was a kid I thought the Ec Cum Spirit was 220 years old.

“If God is a loving God, all the sufferings we get, we need”. Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome. Humans have an amazing ability to rationalize.

God is a *MONSTER* if there are NO Animals in Heaven. Animals are *INNOCENT* 😇 from any SIN, yet they SUFFER anyway.

So it seems like Dr. Kreeft has two main responses to the problem of evil. 1. God would rather see us suffer than have pride and 2. God is good so we need these sufferings. This isn't a terribly compelling answer since it implies that being dead is better than being prideful. If so, why create humans knowing they'll be prideful if pride is worse than existence?

Isaiah 45:7 KJV clearly states: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." GOD MAKES EVIL! It's in the bible. Christians need to STOP arguing that God is GOOD. That is BLASPHEMOUS NONSENSE!

re animal suffering. Wise people I have read all say there are no dogs and cats in heaven. I hope they are wrong.

"if your deepest desire is to follow the will of God, then you'll go to heaven no matter how badly you follow it"....ok then so parents who try to beat the devil out of their kids, suicide bombers, anyone who has a "bad" interpretation of their holy book and acts on it will go to heaven....but a kind, caring person who doesn't believe in God will be punished for eternity......good to know.

Like Jesus, this old man uses the word 'heart' as if the heart is meant to convey emotion. When in fact a hearts sole purpose is to pumps blood throughout the body via the circulatory system, supplying oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and removing carbon dioxide and other wastes

"If your deepest desire is to follow the will of God, then you'll go to heaven no matter how badly you follow it" Yikes. Good job casually hand-waving away the personal responsibility as well as the suffering caused by those who were abusing others in the name of their god.