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Back to EpisodesS3E17: Is God the 'Author' of our suffering? Yes... and No (Joseph Pt. 3)
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The series is back again, as it nears (steadily and slowly) the completion of Season 3! Thank you everyone for waiting!
This episode will explore, as we conclude the life of Joseph, this perplexing question. If everything that happens is what God speaks forth, could God not have spoken something else? Could God not have brought about different happenings, different things, different life, a different world? If our reality unfolds like a story, and God is like the Author, is God also the author of our suffering?
Did Joseph have to go through the painful years of slavery, and wrongful imprisonment, just so that he could save the world around him and his family from the famine? Why?
Note: the discussion of Creation in this episode draws significantly from the first half of Season Two.
3:05 Idea of God as the "Speaker" and Reality that could be
10:50 Asking if God could have "done better"
19:43 "Other people are living lives just as real as mine."
27:53 The story of Joseph's brothers
35:11 How what we do, what Nature does, become part of God speaking
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