The BEST Answer to Why God Allows Death & Suffering

What is the biblical explanation for death and suffering? Is God unjust or unloving for allowing so much of it in the world? In this presentation, I answer these questions as a Bible-believing Christian.
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  • @williamwei9524
    @williamwei95243 күн бұрын

    Jesus is my Lord and Savior. Praise and thanks be to the Lord my God and Savor.

  • @in_the_night_watches
    @in_the_night_watches4 күн бұрын

    Thank you for speaking the truth. I appreciate what you do and what AIG does. For us who are living in Christ, it is all clear, but those who try to balance "the present times" with The Word by watering things down and applying a secular world view to the Bible, all things are muddied and like a flag being blown about by any wind of doctrine. Keep up your good work. God sees your service.

  • @user-qk7wr6wz8c
    @user-qk7wr6wz8c2 күн бұрын

    What Tucker said is as follows: The divide is between rose who think they are God and those who know they are not God.

  • @daniellesomerfield8799
    @daniellesomerfield87994 күн бұрын

    Religion robs, kills and destroys. (John 9:40-10:10) He allows people to have a free will and some use theirs for evil. If you're not led by The Spirit, you're under The Written Law. (religion - Gal. 5:18-21)

  • @suecooper9262
    @suecooper92623 күн бұрын

    This is excellent teaching. Thankyou.

  • @IbelongtoJesus.
    @IbelongtoJesus.3 күн бұрын

    Excuse me , but you misheard Tucker.,,, He said "It's the difference between people who think they ARE God and people who KNOW they ARE NOT God "

  • @mariestreeting4213

    @mariestreeting4213

    3 күн бұрын

    Yes, you’re correct. I had to go back and listen to this again to see if i misheard. Best wishes 🙏

  • @user-tj5eg3nz1b

    @user-tj5eg3nz1b

    3 сағат бұрын

    I agree, it's what I heard.

  • @DesertHuguenot
    @DesertHuguenotКүн бұрын

    39:00 mark is a powerful answer to those who question a God who allows pain and death in this world. This minute would make a great short video.

  • @DesertHuguenot

    @DesertHuguenot

    Күн бұрын

    My dad put his arms up in the air in the moment before he died too. His mouth was moving like he was talking, but no sound came out of his mouth.

  • @VirginaLawton
    @VirginaLawton3 күн бұрын

    #God bless you #KenHam for being the means by which #Gods Will be done. Perfect presentation from Australia

  • @user-qc2ky3uy9q
    @user-qc2ky3uy9q4 күн бұрын

    Amen in Christ God Bless you All be safe in Christ ps John 3:16 HOLY KING JAMES BIBLE VERSE My favorite ps Ken Ham Jeff Setzer Skip Tilton

  • @rosevalley9649
    @rosevalley96492 күн бұрын

    Excellent! Thank you so much for this, it was helpful and encouraging. Your teaching style is engaging. Very well done.

  • @christophertaylor9100
    @christophertaylor91006 сағат бұрын

    He's kind of behind the times: people don't dismiss the Bible any more, they are actively hostile toward it.

  • @wsells

    @wsells

    2 сағат бұрын

    Seriously? The Bible is dismissed now more than ever.

  • @katpoohtoo
    @katpoohtoo4 күн бұрын

    Death, after the Fall, is a part of Life. In fact, all who are dead are not dead in God's sight. The physical body is not the entirety of the human. We are souls. Our souls are more who we are than our bodies. At death, we shed our bodies like clothing. As far as suffering goes, most suffering is caused by other people. It's called free will. God did not create robots, nor does God want robots. No matter what kind of suffering it is, I pray to God to aleve it for the innocent and helpless. I usually don't know His answer because I usually don't know the people I'm praying for. But whatever His answer is, I am not to lean on my own understanding of things. God sees the whole big picture. None of us do. We see only a tiny, tiny fraction of what there is.

  • @JesusChrist_the_one

    @JesusChrist_the_one

    2 күн бұрын

    Well said 👏 Peace to you from God Our father

  • @natashakirilyuk6014

    @natashakirilyuk6014

    20 сағат бұрын

    Amen❤

  • @raddaddy02

    @raddaddy02

    18 сағат бұрын

    Yes

  • @user-qw3kq7iw4n

    @user-qw3kq7iw4n

    16 сағат бұрын

    Amen and amen

  • @user-pi7sp1or5p

    @user-pi7sp1or5p

    10 сағат бұрын

    YOU TAKE THAT BACK ! ! !

  • @MKCarol-ms7lg
    @MKCarol-ms7lgКүн бұрын

    Please pray for the salvation of my adult son and daughter whom I failed to raise in The Lord.

  • @happycook6737

    @happycook6737

    Күн бұрын

    Parents are seed planters for God. Your children have free will. The best thing you can do is keep praying for them and share your faith.

  • @livingwell5892

    @livingwell5892

    17 сағат бұрын

    Prayed for your family.

  • @04DynaGlyde
    @04DynaGlyde2 күн бұрын

    Thank you Ken, and team. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 and SHARE this video . Sadly, MANY Christians DON'T understand this.

  • @jennamarielovesjesus12
    @jennamarielovesjesus125 сағат бұрын

    I know this is like 3-4 years later, but I love how it’s always my body my choice when it comes to abortion, but when it came to the vaccine, it wasn’t my body my choice. I chose not to get the vaccine and I got terminated from my job (Department Of Education in NYC) and now I’m working in a Christian daycare, not making anywhere close to the amount of money I was making but I didn’t need to get the vaccine and I get to work in a place where I not only can share the gospel if I wanted to, but the gospel is all over the building and I can walk around with my Jesus shirts ETC … Gods Will and His Plan Thank you Ken Ham

  • @fawnleegreene7688
    @fawnleegreene76882 күн бұрын

    I am glad I found Ken Ham again. YThad not notified me forever.

  • @judyhalsell9510
    @judyhalsell95107 сағат бұрын

    I pray for GOD to forgive for I did not raise my children right I was steeped in sin sin. I came to Christ late in my life and most of my children are living without Christ. Sins of the fathers and the mothers passed on for generations. 😢

  • @oldmanjoe6808
    @oldmanjoe68088 сағат бұрын

    It's a simple, very simple case of the *Blame Game.* The Blame Game is played this way... "God is all powerful and thereby can fix all ills in me and in the world... but He doesn't. Therefore, it's God's fault there are ills in me and in the world." The issue is that it's now okay and just, since man's fall in the Garden, to blame someone or something outside ourselves for our distress. When asked by God of Adam, saying... "who told thee thou (wast) naked?" Answering, Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent. That's where and when the Blame Game started.

  • @solofourohsixgaming
    @solofourohsixgaming2 сағат бұрын

    I never question God. God made a perfect universe. Man destroyed it with sin.

  • @MrInsaint
    @MrInsaint3 күн бұрын

    I admire Mr. Ham's gifts of speech. And will follow that form of worldview. But I wonder what language Adam and Eve spoke? And did the Serpent speak the same language? Ken Ham talks about man's word against God's word in the beginning. My Bible says that it was the Serpent who spoke to man (Eve) that it was not deadly to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. - The way I think about it, it is clear that it was the Serpent (Satan) who brought sin into the world...And man accepted it. That doing something against God's word is still the sin in the world today.

  • @happycook6737

    @happycook6737

    Күн бұрын

    The Bible (New Testament) said sin came into the world by one man. The Bible says it and I believe it

  • @MrInsaint

    @MrInsaint

    Күн бұрын

    @@happycook6737 Truth, what I meant was the Serpent that brought sin to man. Man must have gotten it from somewhere. Do not you think?

  • @By_Dsgn
    @By_Dsgn21 сағат бұрын

    Your Mum was a great Woman.

  • @throckmortensnivel2850
    @throckmortensnivel285011 сағат бұрын

    Your God doesn't allow death and suffering. Your God created death and suffering. A special treat for his creation just to let them know how important they were to him. You know, in the real world it is referred to as an abusive relationship. The best advice one can give in such a situation is to get out, while you still can. Your God doesn't love you, your God just wants to control everything you do.

  • @johnhuval8165

    @johnhuval8165

    7 сағат бұрын

    He is the Sovereign, God over all of creation, God over me, God over you. No getting out, no opting out, no emancipation for the soul. This “getting out” you speak of is a temporal soothing balm, covering the symptoms but offering no healing and lasting for this life only. If we are disinclined to hear Him, no evidence or words will matter. All of Ken’s words and testimony will fail to convert any person who has judged God as unworthy of our consideration. The regenerate life hears the truth in Ken’s words. To the unregenerate life, the words are like clanging cymbals. Incline your hearing towards His truth; it will change your heart, your life, and your destiny, and Ken’s words will then reveal His truth to you - the truth you cannot hear, and cannot accept, if you’ve opted out.

  • @theforcedragon3781
    @theforcedragon37813 күн бұрын

    Please someone help me. There was a video I commented on About Homosexuality and The girl said she was atheist. I want to Show her this video but I don’t know how to go about explaining it.

  • @Charlie94781

    @Charlie94781

    3 күн бұрын

    God neglected to install the morality setting in Adam and Eve, yet punished them for disobeying an arbitrary rule

  • @Raintiger88

    @Raintiger88

    3 күн бұрын

    @@Charlie94781 It was not an arbitrary rule. You need to re-read Genesis.

  • @intentionally-blank

    @intentionally-blank

    2 күн бұрын

    @@Charlie94781 Just your thinking or any basis for your claim?

  • @switchie1987

    @switchie1987

    7 сағат бұрын

    @@Raintiger88 God made Adam and Eve, set them in the Garden of Eden, along with every animal that "God" first placed before Adam to name, including the Serpent. Adam and Eve were told by God not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and left the two to their own devices. The Serpent came and told Eve to try the Fruit of the tree. Before eating from the tree, Adam and Eve would not have intrinsically known that going against what God told them was wrong, as they would not yet had that level of self-awareness. That's why they scrambled to cover themselves once they both realized they were naked. You barely even understand your own book of fables.

  • @switchie1987

    @switchie1987

    7 сағат бұрын

    @@Charlie94781 I just wish more religious folk would realize that... It is so painfully obvious, to the point it's absurd that anyone still follows these age-old lies and stories.

  • @TheCRHKing
    @TheCRHKing2 күн бұрын

    Hot got what Tucker said a little wrong.

  • @garyjelich4709
    @garyjelich470918 сағат бұрын

    Dear Mr. Ham: I believe in just about everything you teach. I love the ministry of Answers in Genesis! However, I have a few questions: Since God didn't want us to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, why did He create that tree in the first place, and put it in the middle of the Garden of Eden? And why did God create the serpent? And then God said it was all "very good"! Was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil "very good"? Was the serpent "very good"? I believe there are good, Godly answers to these questions, but I just don't know them. Can you please try to answer these for me? Thank you very much.

  • @InfoArtistJK

    @InfoArtistJK

    17 сағат бұрын

    Life is a test. God gave us free will. Loving parents are the closest thing to how God is testing us. Should God fix everything for us? Should a parent fix everything for their children.

  • @watchmanofthenight2700
    @watchmanofthenight27003 күн бұрын

    It's called sin, that's the reason for death and suffering.

  • @cullygrll6588
    @cullygrll658820 сағат бұрын

    You didn’t relay Tucker’s words correctly and water represents Holy Spirit!

  • @paulwright6947
    @paulwright69472 күн бұрын

    Please explain to me, sir, how with such a great sermon of trust God's word to be the truth and final authority on everything. And how we must have a biblical point of view, not a world view, and you show that counterfeit lie of a spinning space ball in your illustration? In those verses in Genesis God declared that he created a firmament. And put the sun moon and stars inside of it. In the second chapter verse 1, He declared that He was finished with creating the heavens and the earth and the hosts thereof, so much for an ever-expanding infinite universe. Evolution and heliocentrism go hand in hand, both are a lie by the father of lies, and both depend on the billions of years' paradigm. Without heliocentrism (the big bang) there would be no pond scum to evolve from. Job 38:14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. Ronans 3:4 Let God be true but every man a liar. "Every" most certainly includes the proven liars of NASA. and monkey-men scientists. God's people continue to try and make the bible fit the counterfeit lie of heliocentrism with absolutely nothing to stand on from His word. It's not just contradictory here and there but is 100% directly opposed to His word in every detail. Why would Christians reject evolution but embrace heliocentrism? Besides being indoctrinated from our earliest days, it is socially acceptable within the church to reject evolution, costing nothing among family and friends. But to reject the great delusion of heliocentrism you will be mocked, ridiculed, and accused of being into po paganism. The very thing that satan's counterfeit lies are rooted in. The Copernican, Jesuit, Free Mason lie was designed to put doubt into the hearts and minds of millions as to the inerrancy of the written word of God. Requiring a person to call much of His word to be a lie or deceptive at best. To deny their senses of what they see and feel, and abandon all God-given common sense, not to mention being fine with the fact that it goes against the basic laws of physics. John 8:32 You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. How is it that the vast majority of the clergy reject the core principals of this great message you gave in this video, when it comes to God's account of His creation recorded in His word?

  • @michaelcschmitt
    @michaelcschmittКүн бұрын

    Jesus died a terrible death to save us. We have no complaining to do. God supplied the lamb to save us and it was his Son.

  • @LeonSemiPro

    @LeonSemiPro

    Күн бұрын

    As far as I can tell, Jesus just introduced one more criteria to get into heaven. There was no diminishing of the tests at all. It is frustratingly illogical. What practically was the benefit of His sacrifice? People went to heaven before and afterwards. Worse, rather than having to be moral all your life, suddenly you just have to believe in Jesus 10 minutes before you die. What a mess of ethics!

  • @michaelcschmitt

    @michaelcschmitt

    Күн бұрын

    Read your Bible! It’s all in there! Yes you can be forgiven at the last minute! Many parables about this!

  • @LeonSemiPro

    @LeonSemiPro

    Күн бұрын

    @@michaelcschmitt It needs a continuity editor to make sense of it. Why don't you try to explain what the sacrifice was for.

  • @michaelcschmitt

    @michaelcschmitt

    22 сағат бұрын

    @@LeonSemiPro the sacrifice was for the sin of Adam and all of his descendants! It doesn’t need any changes what so ever! There is not editing needed! You learn the Bible through reading it and having a relationship with your maker!

  • @LeonSemiPro

    @LeonSemiPro

    21 сағат бұрын

    @michaelcschmitt I've read the thing. Unfortunately, without pre convictions, it reads rather incoherently. Like you reading a Veda or the Quran. Another incoherent example is a famous birth with no fame for the person afterwards. It is simply impossible to find normal human behaviour in this story. You HAVE to suspend rationality to believe. Not for me.

  • @asphalthedgehog6580
    @asphalthedgehog65802 күн бұрын

    Its quite simple: if you are a Christian you are not allowed to commit sin. There are no rules for non-believers. However, funny enough non believers never convict believers and tell them they go to hell. The other way around accoring to believers all non-believers deserve hell for else it is not fair... Luckily Hell was just a city (Gehenna) and doesnt exist anymore. Who's the bad guy here?

  • @wyattsmith563

    @wyattsmith563

    17 сағат бұрын

    Matthew 25:46

  • @JamesRichardWiley
    @JamesRichardWiley2 күн бұрын

    So death and suffering goes on by itself while Yahweh observes as a spectator and occasionally intervenes in response to prayer? I thought Yahweh was the creator of all things and had complete control over all things including Free Will. If Ken is correct then Yahweh is not all powerful as Christians claim - it's more like Ken is playing a word game.

  • @truthseeker5496

    @truthseeker5496

    12 сағат бұрын

    No word game. No other God created heaven and earth, DNA programming and the complexity of all living and non living organisms and everything you can’t see or could never imagine. Christ said to come to him as little children. Trust Him. God said, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭55‬:‭8‬ ‭ God put Adam in charge of the Earth, like signing over the lien of earth to Adam. When Adam sinned he basically handed the lien over to Satan. God is perfect and cannot sin. He must get the earth back the right way. Through blood and sacrifice. Why? I don’t know everything, but I trust God. Read the book of Job. As a human it baffles me to think someone refuse to trust God because they don’t understand something. Proof continues to build each passing year that the Bible is true.

  • @nomadicrecovery1586

    @nomadicrecovery1586

    6 сағат бұрын

    Death and suffering was a CHOICE as we all are genetically formed from Our parents, we too suffer that’s choice BUT the entire message of the Bible is that God makes a way out, eventually and eternally, for those of us who wouldn’t have chosen that and want to submit our Father The sacrifice of Christ makes that possible ( study that if you do t understand why) This is a short period of time In human history where humans lived 80 or so years under the rebellion chosen at the start It is required to allow that choice to play out and for us all to learn the consequence of rebellion At some Point. Soon This window of opportunity will be closed In the mean time we have only one thing to in our lifetime on earth CHOOSE just as our parents did And if there is really a Gods of this lower and intelligence that made this all Who are YOU to question WHY? Do you not grasp, there is almost nothing. You truly understand ! Especially this Just as in the beginning, do NOT lean on your own understanding Trust the creator He’s already solved it all

  • @sw2977
    @sw29775 сағат бұрын

    Whoever you believe created us made us a continually evolving species requiring death to formulate change.

  • @truthgiver8286
    @truthgiver82863 сағат бұрын

    Because he only exists in his followers mind so is unable to do anything about it. They think he is all powerful but he can only achieve what they are able to do on his behalf.

  • @judyhalsell9510
    @judyhalsell95107 сағат бұрын

    RBG was one of the worst “ judges” ever. Her legacy is satanic.

  • @jholyroller6048
    @jholyroller60483 күн бұрын

    No God loves us so much he let's death happen because he knows all who will follow him an he wants them home with him ,an the ones that don't worship him he brings death on them so he can purge sin off the earth trust me God hurts over it I bet he's are father he wants none of his children to parish but to have everlasting ❤️ but they won't stop living living like devils can't have both God or satan at same time

  • @Charlie94781

    @Charlie94781

    3 күн бұрын

    God placed the Tree of Knowledge as bait to entrap humans in a cruel joke

  • @Charlie94781
    @Charlie947813 күн бұрын

    Humanity never descended from one man and his wife

  • @intentionally-blank

    @intentionally-blank

    2 күн бұрын

    God disagrees with you. We can trace the genealogy of, for example, Mary the mother of Yeshua back to Adam & Eve. This is history. This is an example of how scripture supplies proof of it's claims through history, archeology and prophecy. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. - Acts 17:24-28 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: ... Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. - Romans 5:12, 14

  • @robynhefferan9561

    @robynhefferan9561

    2 күн бұрын

    You were there?

  • @christologian1518

    @christologian1518

    2 күн бұрын

    So, you believe in evolution? And, further, that this miracle of evolution of mankind happened multiple times? By this logic, if humanity is not one family with one set of original parents, then there are multiple mankinds. This idea would be a belief, a doctrine, not a scientifically known fact.

  • @alequinonesfingernails2411
    @alequinonesfingernails2411Күн бұрын

    There is a huge war on women. We want to get educated and and work but we also want to stay home snd homeschool our children. Its so gard tonlive on one income thati s taxed to death.