In the age we live in,
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there are certainly many reasons
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to question God.
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Milton's Paradise Lost
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really starts from
that sort of a premise.
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First of all, he says
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that he wants to
justify the ways of God demand,
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and then he has
Satan questioning God.
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But today we seem to
have lost sight of Satan.
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He's is an absent force.
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Too many people
think that not only good,
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but the evil comes from God.
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Paradise Lost tells us
that there is a counterforce.
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And I believe as we look
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at this civil
war of the universe,
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this conflict
between good and evil,
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we need to always keep in mind
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that there is a
countervailing force,
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even as we remember, and trust,
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and depend on the
overpowering force
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and control
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and good wishes
of the divine mind.
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For Liberty Insider,
this is Lincoln Steed.
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