In this first episode of “Where We Begin”, we meet the group and they discuss the character of God and if there is anything that He can’t do.
References: Alvin Plantinga, Philosopher
Transcript: What can’t God do?
Where We Begin – Season 1, Episode 1 Transcript
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Unkown
“What can’t God do?”, today on Where We Begin. Hey, guys. Welcome to Where We Begin, a brand new podcast where we discuss some of the toughest objections to Christianity. I’m your host, Derek Caldwell. I’m joined here by three colleagues and three friends.
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Unkown
Lou, don’t start.
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Unkown
That’s a stretch. Let’s just say,
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Unkown
Let’s just say colleagues.
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Unkown
I’ll be your friend Derek.
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Unkown
Thank you. Lou, pretend you’re holy at least for the next 20 minutes. And anyway, yeah, I’m going to introduce everyone. We’ve got Alycia Wood,
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Unkown
Lou Phillips, and Xandra Carroll. Would you guys just take a little bit of time and introduce yourselves? Sure.
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Unkown
I’m Xandra and I have a background in biological science, and I am a Christian apologist.
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Unkown
Great. I’m Lou Phillips. I studied molecular biology, but I don’t remember anything from it.
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Unkown
And I typically speak on like sexuality, identity and purpose. All right. My name is Alycia Wood. I have a background in criminal justice and social justice and sociology, so I do a lot of people watching and talking about crime scenes.
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Unkown
And I like speaking on everything because I get bored very quickly and I look for the new and latest and greatest. Yes, Alycia always has some new, bizarre question to ask. Yeah, well. Derek. What about you? We don’t know anything about you.
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Unkown
We’d love to hear. We don’t even know who you are. Who is this guy? Is that it? You know, this is more about you. I’m a – I’m a very godly man and I’m so humbled to. Yeah. And that’s, you know, that’s about it.
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Unkown
Also studied biology. Also, don’t remember any of it. So there we go. Yeah, sorry. And luckily, luckily or providentially, we’re not talking about biology today. Great. OK. Yes, that’s the segue. What we are talking about – What about your theology degree? Oh yeah. I’ve also got that. A little bit of History.
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Unkown
You know, that’s enough – that’s enough about you, Derek He’s cooler than he makes himself out to be. For those of you who stuck with us through that, we do have, I think, a really interesting question today. It’s an age old question, really when it comes to apologists and it essentially asks, like this, can God create a rock so heavy that
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Unkown
he cannot lift it? So it sounds kind of funny, and it’s usually asked by skeptics, I think, who are trying to point out the absurdity of omnipotence or just a big fancy word that means God is all powerful.
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Unkown
But a lot of times when Christians hear this for the first time, they do get very freaked out to start thinking, Oh, one of those two things God can’t do. So, Lou, would you like to start us out?
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Unkown
What? Because the question essentially is, what can’t God do? That’s a strange question. Yeah. Well, thank you, Derek, for giving me that opportunity. I’m so, so delighted. No, I think that’s a brilliant question. It’s something I even wrestled with.
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Unkown
And to Derek, your point, like, I think when I first heard it as a kid because it it is one of those questions, I think, your friends that are skeptical of your faith can’t really, do you think God can do it like, Oh, I don’t.
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Unkown
It’s like if I say yes or no, I’m wrong. So I was like, I don’t what to do here. And I think it does come down to the, we have to define the word omnipotence well. And I think for a lot of Christians, maybe the word omnipotence was kind of given this overarching narrative, just like, whatever he wants
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Unkown
to do, kind of thing, it is any…nothing is impossible. There’s nothing it’s like. And that’s a really – one., it’s a really inaccurate definition of the word because it doesn’t mean that God has the ability to do the absurd, to do what is logically impossible.
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Unkown
And so, yeah, like Xandra, adding into that, like, when somebody has asked you this question, I’m curious, what you’re beginning – starting point? Yeah, I think addressing, as we sort of did, this idea that’s been thrown out, especially from the church pulpit, that, you know, there is nothing that God can’t do.
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Unkown
And you’ll hear that in a sermon. There’s nothing God can’t do. Which is true in the proper context. And so of course, this comes back to the terminology omnipotence. What do we mean when we say that God is all-powerful?
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Unkown
As the Westminster catechism says, “God can do all his holy will.” So God can do all his holy will, meaning he cannot contradict himself. He cannot cease to be God. He cannot lie. And even the, I mean, the Bible does talk about things that God can’t do, but it’s usually in the context of things that he’s without.
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Unkown
Like in James, there’s a term there that’s often said that God cannot be tempted. He tempts no one and he cannot be tempted. But it really means he is without temptation. Like, so can God make a square circle?
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Unkown
I mean, that’s asking him to do something that is illogical. It’s not about his ability. God can’t cease to be God. That kind of reminds me of something, John Lennox says. I think it’s one of his books. He says something about like nonsense is still nonsense, even when somebody, even when a scientist asked it.
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Unkown
But it’s of the same things, like just because you’re saying words doesn’t mean it actually like, is the is the sentence that you’re saying, is it coherent? Does it? Is it possible to answer the question? Just because you put the words “Can God?” in front of something doesn’t actually make it a coherent sentence.
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Unkown
Yeah. And I think – in agreement with what you were saying about, you know, God can do the part, do whatever, and everything’s possible with God, I also would hear people say God can do anything but fail. And that was a common thing
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Unkown
I’d hear people saying. And I remember the first time somebody kind of brought to my attention. God can’t do everything. I just had never thought about it. You think of its God, and he’s so great. He’s so perfect.
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Unkown
And yeah, he can do everything because his power is limitless. But you don’t think it’s you don’t realize that it’s very nature that limits him. Hmm. So like you said, Xandra like, he can’t do logically impossible, you know, make a square circle or marry a bachelor, but it’s his character that means that he also can’t tell us to
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Unkown
do evil, like he can’t command us to do something that’s contrary to him. He can’t tell us to serve other gods, you know, or he can’t. Yeah, he can’t say, you need to worship other gods, like, there’s things that he can’t actually ask us to do, or he or his goodness is affected.
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Unkown
And for me to first hear that was like, Wow, I just never thought about it. But it totally makes sense that in order for him to be God, his nature has to be consistent. And that makes me think.
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Unkown
And maybe Derek will go here, who knows, I’ll let him go here. But like that, that’s exactly like the age old Euthyphro Dilemma that we know. Plato created, right? Plato invented this story with Socrates and the character Euthyphro, and they’re talking about this idea.
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Unkown
Are good things good because they’re good or they good because God commanded them to be good, right? And so which one is it? Either something like killing someone is always wrong or and God is subject to whatever this value is?
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Unkown
Or God could one day just say, “No, you can do whatever you like.” Whatever he decrees is good is good and and that does get down to like exactly what you said Alycia, it’s like, He is actually limited to his own nature.
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Unkown
He is subject himself to the he’s not going to go outside of who he is. And I do think that’s interesting too, specifically for the Christian God, because he has attributes that like when I have something, something that I have can be taken from me.
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Unkown
He doesn’t have these things. He is these things like this is what the Bible and John says that he is love. That’s a fascinating thing that Christianity has to say, because it’s not if he is community, he’s always been love, he’s always been in relationship.
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Unkown
And so that’s a true character. He’s not just loving. And so these this divine nature of God, specifically within Christianity, I think – is like the hinge and the crux of this question. Right. And it matters if that’s where you get your morality from.
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Unkown
If God is your moral, like the author of morality, that you’re following for your life and you see an inconsistency within his nature, then you’re wondering, right, is this good because God says it or is it good enough itself?
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Unkown
And God is just telling us what the good thing is? How can we trust anything? And so – his nature is essential and the consistency within it helps us even, not just answer this question, but even how do we live?
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Unkown
Yeah. So you – so essentially what I hear you touching on is it really does come down to God’s nature. And you mentioned specifically, you mentioned several things, but there were two things that I thought were interesting. First, you mentioned God can’t do that which is logically absurd, and I’ll have a quick follow up on that.
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Unkown
But then secondly, even the – looking to God for our morality and God can’t do that which is immoral. So first, the question I would ask is, if we say that God – and you may have already touched on this with the –
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Unkown
with the nature part, but if we say that God cannot do the logically absurd, is there something that exists outside of God called logic that he has – Like, that’s a law he has to follow? Or is it just a property of his nature?
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Unkown
Like is there some platonic form floating out there that God can’t violate? I feel like you want to answer that question, Derek. No, I don’t want to. I feel like this is a test. My answer. I mean, I just I agree. I would say, no, he’s not subject to anything but himself.
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Unkown
And in the in the realm of logic like that is actually an outflow of who he is. But I don’t know if anyone. Yeah, yeah. To that point, I think that is an intrinsic. I don’t – I don’t know how I want to say this.
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Unkown
So what I’m thinking of now is the beginning of John. The Gospel of John says, “In the beginning is the word, the word. And so the word was God, but the word was with God.” And it’s this mysterious kind of description.
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Unkown
But that word, of course, in koine is “logos,” which is where we get our word logic from. And I do think that that is a reference to Christ that through him all things were created. But it’s interesting to me that it’s that word that John picked up on to use.
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Unkown
So I think logic is an intrinsic maybe, could we say, a facet or a component of God’s character? So it’s not that it’s a law that he has to – some sort of external thing that he has to abide by.
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Unkown
But it’s perhaps, you know, I don’t have to follow the laws of my arm. My arm is a part of me, and it enables me to be who I am and do what I do. And so that’s kind of what I think about the logic of God.
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Unkown
I could be wrong. I’m still sort of thinking it through as I’m saying it. No, it’s interesting. There were just – There were some ancient philosophers even who, interestingly enough, through the logic of the universe, the fact that it made sense that nature had laws to them that pointed to a monotheistic god over against what their culture was
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Unkown
saying about polytheism, which is maybe why – part of why John found that to be such a useful word. I don’t think even, like if you’re going to the heart of what this question, what we’re really asking is like, what’s the most powerful thing? Like that’s really – Is there something there? And like –
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Unkown
and so, say to someone that is wrestling with this, well, no, I think there is this value of logic that’s above God to say, Well, then that thing just became the thing you’re talking about. Like that, like something eventually gets into the place of God.
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Unkown
As Christians, we believe it is the God, the triune god of Christianity. And you’re going to have to argue why you think the thing you’re saying is the ultimate thing. But we think very clearly, through Scripture, all throughout it, that it is saying that no, nothing he is subject to nothing but himself.
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Unkown
And that’s a – it’s a bold claim, and it’s something everybody has to wrestle with. But like everyone has to wrestle with that concept, you have to get, where do I get this concept of any of these things and what is subject?
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Unkown
What is everything subject to? There’s an answer for that. I just think it’s the Christian God. Yeah. So I want to change directions here a little bit because I think this also comes up – there is some relation here even to the problem of evil which comes up a lot.
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Unkown
And Alvin Plantinga, who you know, really is the one most well-known for sort of critiquing and perhaps defeating the logical problem of evil, essentially said that perhaps the way around this is that with the problem of evil, is it a logical impossibility that God could create a free world that did not have evil in it?
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Unkown
And so when people wrestle with this, is that also something God can’t do? Yeah, and I think I think it was Alvin Plantinga who went on to say that, so this is the best of all possible worlds.
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Unkown
I believe that was him. And so therefore because – if there was a world in which he could have created free beings where there wasn’t evil, he would have done it. And so the fact that we are in this world, meaning that this is the best of all the possible worlds that he could’ve created, I think
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Unkown
it was Alvin Plantinga who had that idea as well. And so, yeah, I do think the evil thing does play a part here. And especially when we’re talking about the nature of God, because if we’re saying that God does evil, then we have an issue with his character.
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Unkown
If we’re saying that God creates a free people who can do evil, then we don’t. Because when he creates something and has a purpose for it, the violation of that purpose, that the people choose to do, was no longer on him.
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Unkown
And so now you don’t have a conflict of character and nature kind of issue. So I would tend to think, I don’t think that God could have created a different world where that would have been better or better than this one.
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Unkown
And I, because I do think he would have in turn, have done that. But I mean, that’s that’s pure speculation. That’s, you know, in that regard. But it doesn’t seem to make sense to me that there would be a better option out there that God would not have chosen.
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Unkown
But I mean, I don’t have a way to back it up. Yeah, no. That’s good. This is no it’s interesting because we – you guys don’t know these questions when I give them to you for the most part. No, we don’t. And Lou and I talked about this a little bit earlier.
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Unkown
He didn’t know it was going to come up later. Oh, great. But if that’s the case, then the question some of you may ever see before is then how do you make sense of the new Earth or heaven where you do have this place where we assume there will be freedom and we assume there will not be
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Unkown
sin? So yeah, what would you? Great. Well, I just one preliminary thought. I don’t know if this is even in the correct ballpark, but I think this might come back to the question of character and will. And I think part of what’s going to happen to us because we’re going to be changed as well is it’s not
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Unkown
that God is going to to force our will in any way, but it’s that we will be pure and we’ll be refined. We won’t be jealous of each other. We won’t be the way that we were before. We won’t think the way that we thought before.
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Unkown
And I think that changed nature of us is really going to impact every level the way we interact with God, the way we interact with each other, the way we interact with nature, the way that we see ourselves.
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Unkown
It’s going to change everything. It’s going to be redeemed. It’s going to be correct. So I think that also plays into the new heaven. That’s fundamentally different than to than the starting point. And that’s the thing I think we get hooked up on.
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Unkown
It’s like, well, then wasn’t Adam and Eve perfect? Like, what was like, what’s so different about the, you know, only for some reason, I think for, like only in the Christian worldview do you have this idea of like the starting point being like, so good
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Unkown
and yet it’s better in the end. Like God has the ability of taking something already like, I’m not going to use the word perfect, but you get it. You know why? But there’s something, there’s something there. It’s like amazing in like, he said, it’s very good.
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Unkown
And yet in the end, we’re not just image bearers, we’re sons and daughters were grafted in. And so there is this concept of like, there’s a renewed heart. Like we’re now given the mind of Christ. We are now like in our in in a glorified in a glorified sense.
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Unkown
We’ll have full sanctification in this new Earth. So I think already see that now, to be honest, Derek. Yes. Do I still sin? Absolutely. But there’s an aspect of where God has changed my nature, where I don’t want to anymore like to certain levels like and it’s a beautiful thing that I just was not capable of doing.
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Unkown
And so I think you times that by infinity you take when you’re actually in the present, and you’re now grafted into the family. I do think there’s a genuine ontological change that happens now that is on a trajectory towards infinity.
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Unkown
So as we keep developing and as we’re fully sanctified, I think it seems like there’s a contradiction there, but I don’t believe it’s true. I think it’s an apparent contradiction. And I guess I think Revelation 21 is helpful here, and I’ll just read just a little bit of it.
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Unkown
This is 21. I guess I’m going to start at verse 3. This is 3 and 4. And it says, this is John’s speaking, “And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look, God’s dwelling place is now among the people and he will dwell with them.’ “
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Unkown
He’s talking about the future. “They will be his people and God himself will be with them and be their God. He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain for the old order of things has passed away.
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Unkown
And this was a question I feel like that was really popular. Like I want to say several years ago, I just kept hearing people saying, “Can we sin in Heaven? Can we sin in Heaven?” And one thing about the angels and this kind of thing, it was like, what is happening that everybody is asking the same question?
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Unkown
It was just this bizarre thing. And I actually haven’t heard it in a while. So it’s like whatever was happening, whatever movie or song is out, maybe it’s past. But what’s interesting to me about this, this verse is that the universe for it talks about the old order of
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Unkown
things have passed away. And there seems to be this idea of something new, something different. Right. It’s not going to be the same world that we have now. And because in this world there’s also going to be no more death, no more mourning or crying or pain, right?
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Unkown
That means this is a different place in our existence right now. And I think all of that is going to play a part into, you know, our ability to be able to quote-unquote sin or, you know, suffering or do evil or any of these kind of things because it seems like there is a drastic change between
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Unkown
what we live in now and what will be. And I think that’s going to be important. I mean, we’ll be in the presence of God. But based off of what you think about when angels sinned, I mean, some would say what they sin in the presence of God.
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Unkown
Some might say they send later when you created Earth and they sinned down here. So that may or may not get us closer, depending on where you land on that. But I do think that we – that what makes it different is we oftentimes just envision this world, but just a new world, just Christians.
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Unkown
And I actually think that, it seems to me that, there is going to be a drastic shift in not just our relationship with God, because we’re going to be so intimate, but just in the very way that we exist with him.
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Unkown
Yeah, well. Throw us an easy question, no. Yeah, gosh, Derek. Are you having fun? Yeah, that was great. Yeah, well, so it does kind of come back. So in essence, it’s not even an overriding, necessarily the will, depending on theological perspective, but it is
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Unkown
this sort of what I’m hearing is that you are sort of choosing or being chosen. That’s the question, isn’t it? But there is this willful act in which you are saying, I don’t want to be like I am, I need to be more like him.
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Unkown
And so it is this desire to become more like Christ, who is God? And then, if that actually is what happens, then we know that God either can’t or won’t sin. Now which – and that gets into something that I’ve been asked before that I thought would be interesting to discuss here just quickly.
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Unkown
We are sort of judged for falling short of the glory of God. Now do you think that if God can’t sin is it, is it fair to be judged by that standard? My quick answer to that, and people probably won’t like this answer, and it probably seems like a cop-out answer.
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Unkown
But it is so difficult to compare ourselves to the being that created us. Like and I think we so easily want to put God into our own image. And so we get really frustrated when he seems to operate a little differently than us or have standards that – I’m like, no.
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Unkown
My answer is no, I don’t think that’s unjust at all. I’m not the one that created it all. Like, and you can have a problem with the way he created it, but it’s just like. I think there’s a real sense of an almost like arrogance behind that question as in like, well, surely if I can think like
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Unkown
this, and I don’t mean that towards anybody that’s wrestling with that question. But I I do think one of the most humbling things about Christianity is that, gosh, the gospel is that, you’re so broken and flawed that, it was nothing short of God himself taking on your sin.
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Unkown
And yet at the same time, it’s God himself is willing to take on your sin. And so there’s the humiliation, but then also the uplifting in that and it’s a beautiful thing. But why we would wrestle – like why would that be unfair?
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Unkown
That’s only unfair if there was another human that did all this and then demands you – it’s like, No, he is. He is perfect. He is outside of all this. He is the unmoved mover. Like, it’s really hard for me.
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Unkown
I don’t wrestle with that question probably as nearly as a lot of people. And that’s really good news, too. We don’t want a God that can do these things because, yeah, you think at this point in history, we would have made him mad enough to decide to not be good?
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Unkown
Yeah. And so but thank God that he can’t be evil. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I agree. I think it’s good news, but I get why people may be frustrated with that. But again, I don’t know of any of this comes down to a genuine question of like, I don’t think – I don’t know if I want to believe.
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Unkown
It’s more like, can I find a hole so I don’t have to believe? Versus, is this a real question? So, for example, say, how say we can’t sin in heaven or we don’t have the ability?
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Unkown
What’s that change right now? Like why? Why do we have to have that answer? We really don’t. It’s more of like, how can I prove now that I don’t have to believe that, and I think that we need to go further back and say, “Why don’t you want to believe this?” This isn’t me reading into why somebody
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Unkown
is the way they are? But I do think there’s something more because I do. I do find the answer to that question. Say we had it. Actually, God made a way so you have free will and you can’t sin.
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Unkown
It’s like, what’s that do for you? What are we doing now? It doesn’t change much. And so it makes me think even, and I’ve seen this in my own heart, I need to go further back in asking, why am I even wanting the answer to that question?
00:23:25:15 – 00:23:41:16
Unkown
Has it come down to something much deeper? And I think I think it does more than often, more often than not. Yeah. Well, it’s hard to stay angry too. If at the same time, we know that God has reached out to all of us and given us that opportunity through the gospel, through his work on the cross.
00:23:41:17 – 00:24:02:00
Unkown
Well, I want to. We’re going to wrap up here quickly, but I just want to ask one more thing because I think for a lot of people, this is the first time they’ve heard this. I think the answers that we’ve – that you all have given have been great and they’re going to say, “Ok, these are
00:24:02:00 – 00:24:16:05
Unkown
the things they’re talking about when they say, God can’t do everything.” And these are great things for God not to be able to do or not to do. But I would wonder if someone could just, you know, I want to end.
00:24:16:05 – 00:24:29:15
Unkown
all of these by saying, just give the people some hope. If there’s anyone out there that is a little worried about hearing God can’t do things and think, well, can God than not interfere in my life? Can he not rescue me from this?
00:24:29:15 – 00:24:44:13
Unkown
Can he not heal me of this? Whatever that would look like. Yeah, just, you know, give the people some hope before we close. Each of us or just one? I’ll let you pick quickly. Rapid fire, Xandra to start us off.
00:24:44:14 – 00:24:58:12
Unkown
Oh, I’m still looking it up. All right. I’m trying to go to Hebrews. Well, someone – someone pastoral. Hebrews 6. Wait. Oh, nearly there. This isn’t my Bible. I just picked it up randomly. It’s my Bible. Oh, no, I’m pulling your notes out.
00:24:58:12 – 00:25:19:11
Unkown
It’s OK. I’ll just summarize. Somewhere in Hebrews 6. In the Xandra translation. Let’s see where this goes. The Xandra Living Translation. It’s a lot of heresies in there, guys. Well, basically, it says that God cannot lie. And because of that, we have hope in him.
00:25:19:11 – 00:25:39:07
Unkown
Because of that, we can come to him for comfort. So the things that God cannot do give us hope and comfort in who he is, because again, all of this comes back to his character. So I would say if anyone’s out there and they’re worried about what God can’t do to go to the Scriptures and see, what
00:25:39:12 – 00:25:49:12
Unkown
do the Scriptures say that God can’t do? And I think when you do that, you will find a lot of hope and a lot of comfort and you’ll find yourself coming nearer to him and not further away. Yeah, thanks.
00:25:49:12 – 00:26:02:13
Unkown
Yeah. I love that passage to hope as an anchor for the soul. Yeah, beautiful. Well, guys, thanks for joining us today. I hope you had fun. I think we had fun. I thought I was going to be able to get an answer there, and you just cut me off.
00:26:02:13 – 00:26:17:15
Unkown
So whatever, it’s fine, I’ll get him. I’ll get him next. That’s great. Yeah. Well, you know, the Lord does not want to. So, yeah, we’ll see you all next week. Go ahead and comment on things like things do all those things that people do.
00:26:17:21 – 00:33:48:11
Unkown
And if you want your question answered on the podcast. Email us at wherewebegin@lightengroup.org. Thanks, guys. Take care.
